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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 2m
Neil Simon
Neil Simon serves up laughs and tears in this hilarious collection of four vignettes, all set in the same room at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
This hilarious series of vignettes, all set in the same suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel, is Neil Simon at his uproarious, compassionate best. The play is divided into four parts:
In Visitor from New York, magazine writer Hannah and her ex-husband argue over which of them should take in their daughter for the next six months. The banter flies fast and furious, but Hannah’s well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold.
The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband “en flagrante delicto” with a drunken prostitute.
In Visitors from London, Academy Award nominee Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed – and her gay husband, Sidney, provides no comfort.
The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared.
California Suite premiered on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on 10 June 1976. Directed by Gene Saks, the production featured Barbara Barrie, Tammy Grimes, George Grizzard, Jack Weston and Leslie Easterbrook.
Visitor from New York HANNAH WARREN WILLIAM WARREN
Visitor from Philadelphia MARVIN MICHAELS BUNNY MILLIE MICHAELS
Visitors from London SIDNEY NICHOLS DIANA NICHOLS
Visitors from Chicago MORT HOLLEDNER BETH HOLLENDER STU FRANKLYN GERT FRANKLYN
Rooms 203 and 204 in the Beverly Hills Hotel. 1977.
“Simon is writing at his ebullient best. He tops his own jokes like a pole vaulter setting records.” – The New York Times
“A gem of an idea… Mr. Simon is writing at his ebullient best. He tops his own jokes like a pole vaulter setting records, and his language has the grace of the conversation we wish our friends could muster. Yet it is not merely his wisecracks sizzling stealthily across the stage with the multiple reverberations of a skidding firecracker, but his simple humanity and his skill at making the ridiculous near enough to be real to be something more than ridiculous... Mr. Simon makes us laugh so effortlessly.” – The New York Times
“The incisiveness of [Simon’s] wit is driven by an insight into everyday humans and the cultures from which their habits are derived.” – Chicago Theatre Beat
“The middle-aged visitors had last night’s middle-aged audience laughing heartily.” – New York Daily News
American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (1927-2018) is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific and performed playwrights in theatre history. In addition to Lost In Yonkers, which won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, his plays and musicals include Come ...
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