"California Suite (film) California Suite is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his play of the same name. Similar to his earlier ""Plaza Suite"", the film focuses on the dilemmas of guests staying in a suite in a luxury hotel. Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film. In ""Visitors from New York"", Hannah Warren (Jane Fonda) is a Manhattan workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenaged daughter Jenny (played by Dana Plato) after she leaves home to"
"Plaza Suite Plaza Suite is a comedy play by Neil Simon. The play is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. The first act, ""Visitor From Mamaroneck"", introduces the audience to not-so-blissfully wedded couple Sam and Karen Nash, who are revisiting their honeymoon suite in an attempt by Karen to bring the love back into their marriage. Her plan backfires and the two become embroiled in a heated argument about whether or not Sam is having an affair with his secretary. The act ends with Sam leaving"
"California Suite California Suite is a 1976 play by Neil Simon. Similar in structure to his earlier ""Plaza Suite"", the comedy is composed of four playlets set in Suite 203-04, which consists of a living room and an adjoining bedroom with an ensuite bath, in The Beverly Hills Hotel. In ""Visitor from New York"", Hannah Warren is a Manhattan workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenaged daughter Jenny after she leaves home to live with her successful screenwriter father William. The bickering divorced couple is forced to decide what living arrangements are best for the girl. Conservative"
"California Suite California Suite is a 1976 play by Neil Simon. Similar in structure to his earlier ""Plaza Suite"", the comedy is composed of four playlets set in Suite 203-04, which consists of a living room and an adjoining bedroom with an ensuite bath, in The Beverly Hills Hotel. In ""Visitor from New York"", Hannah Warren is a Manhattan workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenaged daughter Jenny after she leaves home to live with her successful screenwriter father William. The bickering divorced couple is forced to decide what living arrangements are best for the girl. Conservative"
"""are delighted to find Simon upholding their own beliefs."" And where infidelity is the theme in a Simon play, rarely, if ever, do those characters gain happiness: ""In Simon's eyes, adds Johnson, ""divorce is never a victory."" Another aspect of Simon's style is his ability to combine both comedy and drama. ""Barefoot in the Park"", for example, is a light romantic comedy, while portions of ""Plaza Suite"" were written as ""farce"", and portions of ""California Suite"" are ""high comedy"". Simon was willing to experiment and take risks, often moving his plays in new and unexpected directions. In ""The Gingerbread Lady"","
"to be touching and so nonstop clever one sometimes wants to gag him. It all works in ""California Suite"", not only because the material is superior Simon, but also because the writer and the director have assembled a dream cast."" ""Variety"" observed, ""Neil Simon and Herbert Ross have gambled in radically altering the successful format of ""California Suite"" as it appeared on stage. Instead of four separate playlets, there is now one semi-cohesive narrative revolving around visitors to the Beverly Hills Hotel . . . The technique is less than successful, veering from poignant emotionalism to broad slapstick in sudden"
"Neil Simon Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the"
"play was profiled in the William Goldman book """". Mike Nichols won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Neil Simon was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play but lost to Tom Stoppard for ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"". Maureen Stapleton was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play but lost to Zoe Caldwell in ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"". Noël Coward, who three years earlier had written ""Suite in Three Keys"", later said of ""Plaza Suite"", ""Such a good idea having different plays all played in"
"by MTC's artistic director Lynne Meadow. Thomas Lynch's seaside home is airy and furnished in the best of taste, with the ocean view subtly lit by Pat Collins. The costumes by William Ivey Long are suitable."" Rose's Dilemma Rose's Dilemma is the final play by Neil Simon. It ran in Los Angeles and off-Broadway in 2003. The play was produced off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club at City Center's Stage 1. It ran from November 20, 2003 until February 1, 2004. Directed by Lynn Meadow, it starred John Cullum, Patricia Hodges, David Aaron Baker, and Geneva Carr. Mary Tyler Moore,"
"new versions are ""The Female Odd Couple"" (1985), and ""Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple"" (2002). Simon, as a member of a writing staff, penned material for the following shows: The following made-for-TV movies were all written solely by Simon, and all based on his earlier plays: Neil Simon Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other"
"traces Simon's style of comedy to that of Menander, a playwright of ancient Greece. Menander, like Simon, also used average people in domestic life settings, the stories also blending humor and tragedy into his themes. Many of Simon's most memorable plays are built around two-character scenes, as in segments of ""California Suite"" and ""Plaza Suite"". Before writing, Simon tries to create an image of his characters. He said that the play ""Star Spangled Girl"", which was a box-office failure, was ""the only play I ever wrote where I did not have a clear visual image of the characters in my"
"optimistic ending for the film is ""more plausible"" than the ""tacked-on happy ending to the play"". According to Thomas S. Hischak ""Critics were mixed in their reaction, one stating that Simon's 'characteristic wit and humor are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of lost misfits can often be genuinely and deeply touching' but another noting that 'what is written is not serious but earnest.'"" They ""all lauded Stapleton's penetrating performance."" The play ran ""a disappointing five months, the shortest run yet for a Simon play."" The Gingerbread Lady The Gingerbread Lady is a play by Neil Simon. It"
"London) 1983: ""Twelfth Night"" (Stratford) 1984: ""Romeo and Juliet"" (Touring, The Other Place & The Pit 1985-6) 1984: ""The Merchant of Venice"" (Stratford) 1984: ""Red Star"" (The Pit, London) 1984: ""As You Like It"" (Som Ni Vill Ha Det) (Stadsteatern, Stockholm) 1984: ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (Stratford & Ahmanson Theatre LA & Broadway) 1985: ""Les Misérables"" (Barbican, Palace Theatre & Broadway 1986) 1985: ""Philistines"" (Other Place & The Pit Theatre, London, 1986) 1986: ""Misalliance"" (Barbican) 1986: ""Every Man in His Humour"" (The Swan Theatre, Stratford) 1987: ""The New Inn"" (The Swan) 1987: ""Les Misérables"" (Imperial Theatre, Tokyo) 1988: ""A Question of Geography"""
"Play. A revised version was produced at the Marines Memorial Theatre, San Francisco and then moved to the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California in November 1990. Directed by John Tillinger, the cast featured Richard Thomas as Stephen, Nathan Lane as Mendy, Dan Butler as Mike and Sean O'Bryan as Paul. Nathan Lane explained that McNally ""had softened the ending of 'The Lisbon Traviata' during its off-Broadway run. Mike Nichols and others had told him the original brutal ending was too much to handle, so he changed it. When we came to San Francisco, he returned to the original ending."
"me that I hadn't entirely slipped."" ""The Times"", noting the parallel with Maugham, praised both the play and the acting. The critic of ""The Daily Mail"" said, ""as the curtain fell last night I felt oddly elated, as if I had recaptured the flavour of an exclusive drink which one tasted when young but has never been mixed quite right since. I know the name of it now: not mannerism, not bravura, not histrionics, but style."" Coward later said of Neil Simon's 1968 ""Plaza Suite"", ""Such a good idea having different plays all played in a hotel suite! I wonder"
"real-life crowd unfamiliar with the names ""Diana Barrie"" and ""Sidney Cochran."" The California-themed paintings seen in the opening credits are by pop artist David Hockney. While the play featured two actors and two actresses each playing several roles, the film features a different actor for each role. Vincent Canby of ""The New York Times"" called ""California Suite"" ""the most agreeably realised Simon film in years"" and added, ""Here is Mr. Simon in top form, under the direction of Herbert Ross, one of the few directors . . . who can cope with the particular demands of material that simultaneously means"
"by Coward's boredom at long engagements. Major productions of parts of the cycle were revived in 1948 and 1967 on Broadway (""Hands Across the Sea"" was included in 1948 but omitted in 1967), 1981 at the Lyric Theatre in London (""Shadow Play"", ""Hands Across the Sea"" and ""Red Peppers""), starring John Standing and Estelle Kohler and at the Chichester Festival in 2006 (""Shadow Play"", ""Hands Across the Sea"", ""Red Peppers"", ""Family Album"", ""Fumed Oak"" and ""The Astonished Heart""). In 1971, the Shaw Festival revived three of the works (not including ""Hands Across the Sea""), and in 2000, the Williamstown Theatre"
"place in London and Los Angeles. The closing credits song ""I'm Alone But That's OK"" is performed by Ron Sexsmith and was written for the series by Christopher Guest and Harlan Collins. Oddball inventions: Tom's father has invented a shoe tree that can cool or heat up a shoe; a woman whom Tom and Pete meet has invented a glass, attached around her aged mother's neck, that allows her to see if she's still breathing. Kitty Chadwick has invented flavoured enemas. Awkward dates: Pete sets up Tom on bad first dates. One woman talks about how dinosaurs still exist; another"
"song, all the music in the play is heard in three extended dream sequences: the Glamour Dream, the Wedding Dream, and the Circus Dream which, to some extent, become three small operettas integrated into a straight play. The final song, ""My Ship"", functions as a leitmotif for Liza's insecurity: as each dream commences, a snippet of the tune is heard, as it is a haunting melody which Liza recognizes but cannot name, or sing with words, until her anxiety is resolved. The musical opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon) on January 23, 1941 and closed"
"with death rather than a new life."" The play focuses on a recently widowed writer, George Schneider, who is introduced by his press agent brother to soap opera actress Jennie Malone. Jennie's marriage to a football player has dissolved after six years. Both are uncertain of their readiness to start dating and developing a new romance when her breakup is so recent and he still has recurring memories of his deceased wife, Barbara. Neil Simon's first wife, Joan Baim, died in 1973. The play had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre on October 7, 1977, closing November"
"existence as well as the humorous conflicts one expects. But the seamless merging of laughter, character and emotion that ignited ""Biloxi Blues"" is only intermittently achieved here. There are stretches, especially in Act I, when ""Broadway Bound"" isn't funny or moving but just reportorial and expository, with plot twists and thematic invocations piling up undigested, like the heavier courses at an attenuated Passover seder."" Broadway Bound Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy, following ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and ""Biloxi Blues"". The play is about Eugene and his older brother,"
"three roles. In 1987, Carol Burnett starred in a television movie in which she portrayed all three female roles. Starring opposite her were Hal Holbrook as Sam Nash, Dabney Coleman as Jesse Kiplinger, and Richard Crenna as Roy Hubley. Burnett was also the executive producer.directed by Roger Beatty and Kenny Solms. Plaza Suite Plaza Suite is a comedy play by Neil Simon. The play is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. The first act, ""Visitor From Mamaroneck"", introduces the audience to not-so-blissfully wedded couple Sam and"
"The Collection (play) The Collection is a 1961 play by Harold Pinter featuring two couples, James and Stella and Harry and Bill. It is a comedy laced with typically ""Pinteresque"" ambiguity and ""implications of threat and strong feeling produced through colloquial language, apparent triviality, and long pauses"" (""Oxford English Dictionary""). ""The Collection"" takes place on a divided stage, shared by a house in London's Belgravia, and a flat in Chelsea, with another space between them where telephone calls take place; according to Pinter's stage description, the ""three areas"" comprise ""two peninsulas and a promontory"" (""Three Plays"" [43]). Bill, a dress"
"""FlatSpin"" was written to use the same seven actors as the other two plays in the series. In this play, the characters are: Rosie and Sam are the central characters; the other characters make appearances in one or two scenes. The entire play is set in flat belonging to a Joanna Rupelford, on the riverside in the London Docklands. As part of ""Damsels in Distress"", the play was written to use the identical set to the other two plays. As with most Ayckbourn plays, it was originally performed in the Round for its original performances at the Stephen Joseph Theatre."
"while the line ""all the world's indeed a stage, and we are merely players"", references the title of the band's first live album ""All the World's a Stage"" (1976), itself taken from William Shakespeare's comedy play ""As You Like It"". ""The Camera Eye"" is a two-part track with sections titled ""New York"" and ""London"". Peart wrote the lyrics after taking walks in both cities, recalling observations and the rhythms he felt during them. It remains the band's last song with a duration over 10 minutes, a frequent occurrence in their earlier albums. Its title refers to short pieces of the"
"where Neil Simon got it from?"" A Song at Twilight A Song at Twilight is a play in two acts by Noël Coward. It is one of a trio of plays collectively entitled ""Suite in Three Keys"", all of which are set in the same suite in a luxury hotel in Switzerland. The play depicts an elderly writer confronted by his former mistress with facts about his past life that he would prefer to forget. First produced in 1966, the play is one of Coward's last works for the stage. The original idea for ""A Song at Twilight"" was inspired"
"from Roxy Music's ""Virginia Plain"", in which the title also appeared only at the end. Glenn Tilbrook has said that the music was partly inspired by the Bob Dylan song ""Positively 4th Street"", and the lack of a chorus was due to Tilbrook feeling that a repeated section would upset the flow of Difford's narrative lyrics. The phrase 'Up The Junction' is London slang for being in deep trouble, as in the American 'Up the creek without a paddle'. It is also, like other lines in the song, a reference to the working-class area of Clapham Junction in Battersea in"
"London, Connecticut. The main plot deals with the middle son, 16-year-old Richard, and his coming of age in turn-of-the-century America. ""Perhaps the most atypical of the author's works, the play presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a turn-of-the-century New England town."" The title derives from Quatrain XII of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (5th edition, 1889), one of Richard's favorite poems: Theatre Guild Producer<BR> Philip Moeller Director<BR> Robert Edmond Jones Scenic Designer<BR> CAST<BR> George M. Cohan as Nat Miller <br> Adelaide Bean as Mildred Miller <br> John Butler as Salesman <br> Ruth Chorpenning as"
"London, with Michael Redgrave as Harry, Helen Haye as Lady Monchensey and Catherine Lacey as Agatha. It ran until 22 April 1939. Other productions of the play have included: In New York, the play has been staged at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1947, the Phoenix Theater in 1958, with Fritz Weaver, Florence Reed and Lillian Gish, and by the visiting Royal Shakespeare Company in 2000 (the Swan Theatre production listed above). The play is in two acts, set in Wishwood, a stately home in the north of England. At the beginning, the family of Amy, Dowager Lady Monchensey are"
"Some Girl(s) Some Girl(s) is a play written by Neil LaBute about a man only identified as ""Man"" who is about to get married. Before his wedding, he decides to visit his ex-girlfriends, all of whom he mistreated. His exes include: Sam, his former high school sweetheart; Lindsay, a college professor from Boston; Tyler, his Chicago fling; and Bobbi, a woman from Los Angeles whom he actually could have ended up with. The play opened in London in May 2005 at the Gielgud Theatre. The cast included David Schwimmer in the lead role, Catherine Tate, Lesley Manville, Saffron Burrows and"
"4 + ⋯ was an application of the Riemann zeta function formula_3 with formula_4. Ramanujan's work became the foundation of string theory. The play includes live ""tabla"" playing, which ""morphs seductively into pure mathematics"", as the ""Financial Times"" review put it, ""especially when … its rhythms shade into chants of number sequences reminiscent of the libretto to Philip Glass's ""Einstein on the Beach"". One can hear the beauty of the sequences without grasping the rules that govern them."" The play has two strands of narrative and presents strong visual and physical theatre. It interweaves the passionate intellectual relationship between Hardy"
"Broadway Bound Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy, following ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and ""Biloxi Blues"". The play is about Eugene and his older brother, Stanley, dealing with their parents' relationship falling apart as the brothers work together toward being comedy writers for the radio, and, eventually, television. They discover that their father, Jack, has been cheating on their mother, Kate. It is obvious to the family before Jack even admits it, and they try to find ways for Kate to cope with the loss when Jack may eventually"
"Proposals Proposals is a comedy-drama by Neil Simon, his 30th play. After running in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center in 1997, the play opened on Broadway in 1997. ""Proposals"" had its world premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, followed by a run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in October 1997. The play opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 6, 1997 and closed on January 11, 1998 after 76 performances and 11 previews. Directed by Joe Mantello, the cast included Kelly Bishop ,Suzanne Cryer Katie Finneran, Dick Latessa and L. Scott Caldwell as"