A look at Neil Simon as two of his plays hit Broadway
Quick ReadAudiences identify with Neil Simon's characters, which helps explain his two revivals
Photo credit: Photo by Ari Mintz | Laurie Metcalf and Dennis Boutsikaris in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" at the Nederlander Theatre, W. 41 St., NYC.
I interviewed Neil Simon once. It was 1977, at the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, where vaguely recognizable TV people were taking phone calls at their tables and pausing at the mild-looking man with laugh-lines under his glasses to squeal, "Darling, it was fabulous, absolutely fabulous."
It was surreal to meet Simon - quintessential New Yorker and the last of Broadway's red-hot commercial...
