"the musical ""Wildcat"". In 1965, Liza Minnelli made her Broadway debut in ""Flora the Red Menace"". The original Broadway production of ""Annie"" opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin. In 1977, the Nederlander Organization purchased the structure and renamed it in honor of American playwright Neil Simon on June 29, 1983, the opening of his play ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"". In 1985, its sequel ""Biloxi Blues"" also played at the theatre. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building a New York City landmark in 1985. Historical records show that the"
"Brighton Beach Memoirs Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy. It precedes ""Biloxi Blues"" and ""Broadway Bound"". ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" had a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on December 10, 1982, and following an additional pre-Broadway engagement at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, the play premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on March 27, 1983 and transferred to the 46th Street Theatre, where it closed on May 11, 1986 after 1,299 performances and 7 previews. Directed by Gene Saks, the"
"of life in it... The movie was directed by Gene Saks, who directs many of Simon's plays on both the stage and the screen, and whose gift is for the theater. His plays have the breath of life; his movies feel like the official authorized version. Everything is by the numbers."" Brighton Beach Memoirs (film) Brighton Beach Memoirs is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, written by Neil Simon, and starring Jonathan Silverman and Blythe Danner. Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1983 play of the same title, the first chapter of what is known as the ""Eugene trilogy"","
"intense summer heat wave and a prolonged garbage strike, which exacerbates Edison's plight as he and his wife Edna deal with noisy neighbors, loud sounds emanating from Manhattan streets up to their apartment, and even a broad-daylight burglary of their apartment. Mel eventually suffers a nervous breakdown and it is up to the loving care of his brother Harry, his sisters, and Edna to restore him to a firm reality. The Prisoner of Second Avenue The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an American black comedy play by Neil Simon, later made into a film released in 1975. ""The Prisoner of"
"The Prisoner of Second Avenue The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an American black comedy play by Neil Simon, later made into a film released in 1975. ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"" premiered on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on November 11, 1971 and closed on September 29, 1973 after 798 performances and four previews. Produced by Saint Subber and directed by Mike Nichols, the play starred Peter Falk and Lee Grant as Mel and Edna Edison and Vincent Gardenia as Mel's brother Harry. The production received 1972 Tony Award nominations for Best Play, for Mike Nichols for Best"
"Horovitz's ""The Indian Wants the Bronx"", Neil Simon's ""The Good Doctor"" and Joseph Papp's 1974 ""Richard III"" at the Lincoln Center. Mason starred on Broadway in a revival of ""Night of the Iguana"" in 1996, and the following year in Michael Cristofer's ""Amazing Grace"". Mason reunited with ""Goodbye Girl"" co-star Richard Dreyfuss and writer Neil Simon in Duncan Weldon and Emanuel Azenberg's production of ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"" in 1999, which was performed at the L.A. Theatre Works shortly after a revival in London's West End. She earned a Grammy nomination in comedy. She appeared in Charles L. Mee's"
"in 2002. On July 27–29, 2007 former cast and crew gathered in Gibsons, British Columbia for the show's 35th anniversary. A best-selling book, ""Bruno and The Beach: The Beachcombers at 40"" celebrating its 40th anniversary was released in December 2012. It was co-written by Marc Strange, co-creator of the series, and Jackson Davies, who starred in the series as Constable John Constable. The series was filmed on location in Gibsons, British Columbia and surrounding area. The café featured in the show was built as a hardware store in 1934 and served various retail functions until rented as a film set"
"Lady and Her Music"". When ""RENT"", set in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan's East Village, opened in 1996, the theater underwent remodeling of the façade and interior to resemble a downtown nightclub. When Rent closed in 2008, refurbishing quickly got underway for the new show, a revival of ""Guys and Dolls"" starring Oliver Platt and Lauren Graham. The show played only 147 performances and was a box office failure when it closed June 14, 2009. The Neil Simon plays ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and ""Broadway Bound"" were to premiere at the theatre in the fall, and perform alternating shows. However,"
"4, 1986. ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and ""Biloxi Blues"" were made into films, while ""Broadway Bound"" was adapted as a made-for-TV movie. On screen the role of Eugene Jerome was played by Jonathan Silverman in ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" (he also played Stanley in the film version of ""Broadway Bound""), Matthew Broderick in ""Biloxi Blues"" (he also played Eugene in the Broadway productions of both ""Brighton Beach"" and ""Biloxi Blues""), and Corey Parker in ""Broadway Bound"". Eugene trilogy The Eugene Trilogy refers to three plays written by Neil Simon, the ""quasi-autobiographical trilogy"" ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"", ""Biloxi Blues"" and ""Broadway Bound"". The trilogy"
"which tends to accommodate comedians and folk and jazz acts, and a much larger warehouse venue holding 400, which tends to stage more popular (usually rock) acts, both national and international. Dance music is catered for at Baker Place which holds mainly local underground nights and Trinity Rooms which has regularly hosts big names like Hot Chip, Groove Armada, DJ Yoda and Jazzy Jeff alongside more cutting-edge names like Dan Le Sac, Christian Smith, and Missill. The city is the setting for Frank McCourt's memoir ""Angela's Ashes"" and the film adaptation. The Frank McCourt Museum situated in Frank's former school"
"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"
"Penelope Ann Miller (Daisy). Biloxi Blues Biloxi Blues is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It portrays the conflict of Sergeant Merwin J. Toomey and Arnold Epstein, one of many privates enlisted in the military stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi, seen through the eyes of Eugene Jerome, one of the other soldiers. This play is the second chapter in what is known as his ""Eugene trilogy"", following ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and preceding ""Broadway Bound"", and is the only one in which Eugene is not the central character. The play won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Barry Miller won a"
"so plotted, so constructed, so written, that I found myself thinking maybe they shouldn't have filmed the final draft of the screenplay. Maybe there was an earlier draft that was a little disorganized and unpolished, but still had the jumble of life in it... The movie was directed by Gene Saks, who directs many of Simon's plays on both the stage and the screen, and whose gift is for the theater. His plays have the breath of life; his movies feel like the official authorized version. Everything is by the numbers."" Brighton Beach Memoirs Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical"
"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,"
"District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film ""Scarface"" and the 1996 comedy ""The Birdcage"". The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Lincoln Road, running east-west parallel between 16th and 17th Streets, is a nationally known spot for outdoor dining and shopping and features galleries of well known designers, artists and photographers such as Romero Britto, Peter Lik, and Jonathan Adler.. In 2015, the Miami Beach residents passed a law forbidding bicycling, rollerblading, skateboarding and other motorized vehicles on Lincoln Road during busy pedestrian hours between 9:00am and"
"Biloxi Blues Biloxi Blues is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It portrays the conflict of Sergeant Merwin J. Toomey and Arnold Epstein, one of many privates enlisted in the military stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi, seen through the eyes of Eugene Jerome, one of the other soldiers. This play is the second chapter in what is known as his ""Eugene trilogy"", following ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and preceding ""Broadway Bound"", and is the only one in which Eugene is not the central character. The play won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Barry Miller won a Tony Award for Best"
"an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room in the hotel. Only establishing shots of the hotel were used; the series was filmed entirely at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California. The Fontainebleau Miami Beach is featured in the 1964 James Bond film ""Goldfinger"", most notably in the sweeping aerial shot that follows the opening credits and accompanies composer John Barry's big-band track ""Into Miami"". It is the hotel where Jill Masterson (played by Shirley Eaton) is murdered by the villainous Oddjob (Harold Sakata). The Fontainebleau is one of the main settings for the 1988 comedy sequel """", with"
"and was convicted in the US and sentenced to life in jail, was born in Galveston. The film and television actor Lee Patterson, a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, lived in Galveston and died there in 2007. Other notable people include Buffalo Bills Matt Carpenter, second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, Mike Evans, wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1998 Heisman Trophy runner-up and pro quarterback Michael Bishop, comedian Bill Engvall, actress Katherine Helmond and Tina Knowles, fashion designer and creator of House of Deréon, mother of Beyoncé and Solange. Pittsburgh Steelers great Casey Hampton. Grammy award-winning R&B"
"New York City, filming moved to Miami, Florida, in 1964 after Gleason took up permanent residence there. Among his notable film roles were Minnesota Fats in the 1961 Academy Award-winning drama ""The Hustler"" (co-starring with Paul Newman), and Buford T. Justice in the ""Smokey and the Bandit"" series from 1977 into the early 1980s (co-starring Burt Reynolds). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Gleason enjoyed a prominent secondary music career, producing a series of best-selling ""mood music"" albums. His first album, ""Music for Lovers Only"", still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks),"
"the earthquake in ""Amnesiascope""; the lake that floods L.A. in both ""Rubicon Beach"" and ""Our Ecstatic Days""; the vanishing rain in ""Shadowbahn""). The characters of the novels often live in metropoles—L.A., New York City, Berlin, Paris or Tokyo—in which unexpected natural phenomena cause chaos and reveal how brittle civilization actually is. Erickson makes occasional use of somewhat supernatural elements such as bizarre artifacts (a bottle with human eyes from ""Days Between Stations""), the extraordinary gifts of some characters (Catherine from ""Rubicon Beach""), and impossible historical events (the Twin Towers' reappearance in the Dakota Badlands from ""Shadowbahn""). The most powerful force"
"the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles he appeared in the premiere of David Mamet's ""The Old Neighborhood"" and in 2007 Jane Anderson's ""The Quality of Life"" with Laurie Metcalf and Jo Beth Williams. For that performance he received the ""Backstage West"" Garland Award for Best Actor and was nominated for Best Actor by the L.A. Critics Drama Circle and by the LA Alliance Ovation Awards. In 2009 he was in the Broadway revivals of ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and ""Broadway Bound"". The former opened to wide critical acclaim and then closed one week later. The latter never opened. He continued his"
"Kill"" and ""Forsaken"", in the latter of which they both starred in the leads. Matthew Broderick was cast in this film and Simon's play ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" simultaneously. The real-life father of Matthew Broderick (whose birthname is James Joseph Broderick), noted character actor James Broderick, died (November 1, 1982) around the time of the making of this film. Co-star Jason Robards, who knew James and was a friend, helped Matthew through his grief over the loss of his father. Former professional baseball player Charley Lau appears as himself having been hired by Robards' character Dugan to coach Broderick's Michael to"
"character (played by John Travolta), walks along the sidewalk, admires shoes in a storefront window, buys two (stacked) slices of pizza through a pizzeria window-counter at Lenny's Pizza, and ends up at the hardware store where he works (based on a real hardware store on Fifth Avenue in nearby Bay Ridge). The strip was used again in 2016 for the filming of Red Hot Chili Peppers - Go Robot music video. Bath Beach, Brooklyn Bath Beach is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It is located at the southwestern edge of the borough on Gravesend Bay. The"
"daughter, born in September 2017. Silverman is known for his roles in the TV series ""Gimme A Break!"", as well as in the films ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" (1986) (a film version of the first play of Neil Simon's Eugene Trilogy), ""Girls Just Want to Have Fun"" (1985), ""Caddyshack II"" (1988) , ""Little Big League"" (1994), and ""Weekend at Bernie's"" (1989). Silverman played the title role in the television sitcom ""The Single Guy"" (which aired on NBC starting in 1995), as well as the lead role in the 1992 movie ""Little Sister."" He has appeared on """" (in a third-season episode"
"Film Registry, ""Dance, Girl, Dance"" (1940), tells the story of two dancers from Akron who go to New York City. ""My Name is Bill W."" (1989) tells the true story of Bill Wilson who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, which held its first meetings at the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens and has over two million members today. The program's connection to the Saint Thomas Hospital is alluded to in an episode of the television series ""Prison Break"" (2005), where Michael Scofield talks to Sara Tancredi on the phone while there. The Akron Armory is used as a venue for a female"
"the film ""Little Murders"" as a ""turning point"". He won Obie Awards in 1960 and 1969. A life member of The Actors Studio, Gardenia won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1972 for his performance in ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"", opposite Peter Falk. In 1979, he was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in ""Ballroom"". In film, he was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in ""Bang the Drum Slowly"" and ""Moonstruck"". In television, Gardenia won the 1990 Emmy Award for his performance"
"Lee Ranaldo (Matarazzo, Pynchon and Ranaldo attended Oyster Bay High School). A less distinguished figure from the hamlet's past is Typhoid Mary, whose contagiousness was discovered following an investigation into her employment at a summer home in Oyster Bay in 1906. Composer John Barry lived in Oyster Bay until his death in 2011. William Woodward Jr., accidental victim of 1955's ""Shooting of the Century"" that was the subject of Dominic Dunne's book and NBC's ""The Two Mrs. Grenvilles"" was also a resident of Oyster Bay. It was also the setting of the 2000 movie ""Meet the Parents"". Oyster Bay is"
"(1947) set Breslin on his path as a novelist, earning him a Literary Guild and receiving critical acclaim. He used his Irish family and childhood for his novel ""Let Go of Yesterday"" (1950) which is set in the Irish South Bronx. Another one of his short stories was the basis for the film ""Platinum High School"" (1960; MGM), directed by Charles Haas, with the screenplay by Robert Smith, and starring Mickey Rooney. At the end of his life he was living at 331 East 71st Street in Manhattan. Breslin died after a short illness at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New"
"Nights"" (2006). The German writer W. G. Sebald (born 1944) lived in Manchester when he first settled in England, and the city features prominently in his novel ""The Emigrants."" The Scottish crime writer Val McDermid (born 1955) lived in the city for many years and set her Lindsay Gordon and Kate Brannigan series in Manchester. Jeff Noon (born in Droylsden in 1957) set his early novels, including ""Vurt"", in a future dystopian Manchester. Nicholas Blincoe set his first three novels in Manchester, including ""Acid Casuals"" (1995), based around the Haçienda nightclub and ""Manchester Slingback"" (1998), focusing on the Gay Village."
"thought of a trilogy. But I decided to take Eugene the next step chronologically in my life, which was the army. But even after I wrote 'Biloxi Blues', I still didn't think about a sequel, because if it turned out to be a bomb, why would one want to do a sequel? So I just waited to see what would happen. Well, Biloxi enjoyed enormous success, and I thought of a third part."" ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" premiered on Broadway on March 22, 1983; ""Biloxi Blues"" premiered on Broadway on March 28, 1985 and ""Broadway Bound"" premiered on Broadway on December"
"Los Angeles to test for the role of Simon in ""Lord of the Flies"", which he was cast in. After five months on location in Jamaica, he returned to his schooling at Wonderland Elementary. When he was 15, his mother died. He is an alumnus of Manhattanville College, where he played for the hockey team until he suffered a leg injury. Once on a Trip to Alaska, his raft capsized, and he was left on the other side of the river with no shoes and had to walk several miles to safety. His most notable works to date are in"
"Sam's last days in the Navy SEALs, leading up to his retiring to Miami, and serves as a lead-in to the fifth season of ""Burn Notice"". Jeffrey Donovan directed the film and has a cameo appearance. Since 2008, Signet Books has published a series of ""Burn Notice"" tie-in novels under their Obsidian brand: The show was filmed on location in and around Miami. The show had a permanent set built in the former Coconut Grove Convention Center in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood where most of the show is filmed. In August 2012, the Miami City Commission and ""Burn Notice"" producers"
"of his plays on Broadway: ""Barefoot in the Park"", ""The Odd Couple"", ""The Star-Spangled Girl"", ""Plaza Suite"", ""Last of the Red Hot Lovers"", ""The Gingerbread Lady"", and ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"". Of these seven plays, five resulted in Tony nominations for Subber as producer of a Best Play nominee (""Barefoot in the Park"", ""The Odd Couple"", ""Plaza Suite"", ""Last of the Red Hot Lovers"", and ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue""), and ""Barefoot in the Park"" also earned Subber a nomination as Best Producer (Dramatic). After Subber's run of Neil Simon plays ended, he produced two more musicals on Broadway:"