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B'way takes a new look at 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'
Quick ReadBroadway takes a new look at Neil Simon's 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'
NEW YORK (AP) — Eugene Morris Jerome is quite the quipster.
Even at age 15, the lad can rattle off one-liners with machine-gun precision and get a laugh. He's also a keen observer of his family's turbulent domestic life in 1930s Brooklyn, the setting for "Brighton Beach Memoirs," Neil Simon's lightly fictionalized tale of his own adolescence.
Eugene is a young Simon, of course, and the...
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