Plaza Suite; a Comedy in Three Acts
by Neil Simon
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Neil Simon's hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City.Tags
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L.A. Theatre Works brings Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite to life. The play, first produced in 1968, follows three different encounters in Suite 719 of New York City’s Plaza Hotel: the anniversary celebration of a long-married couple from Mamaroneck, the reunion of a Hollywood producer with his former high-school sweetheart (now a married mother of three still in their hometown of Tenafly, N.J.), and the beleaguered parents of a bride who has locked herself in the bathroom and refuses to be married.
Plaza Suite never rises to the same level as Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple or The Goodbye Girl, but the play provides a worthwhile bittersweet look at love.
On Broadway, Simon had George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton play the show more leads in all three stories; here the parts are wisely distributed to Joe Spano and Marsha Mason for the first tale, Hector Elizondo and JoBeth Williams for the second, and Edward Asner and Marsha Mason again for the last. The actors were delightful! It was the next best thing to an aisle seat at the Plymouth Theatre! show less
Plaza Suite never rises to the same level as Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple or The Goodbye Girl, but the play provides a worthwhile bittersweet look at love.
On Broadway, Simon had George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton play the show more leads in all three stories; here the parts are wisely distributed to Joe Spano and Marsha Mason for the first tale, Hector Elizondo and JoBeth Williams for the second, and Edward Asner and Marsha Mason again for the last. The actors were delightful! It was the next best thing to an aisle seat at the Plymouth Theatre! show less
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Marvin Neil Simon was born in the Bronx, New York on July 4, 1927. He attended New York University as an enlistee in the Army Air Forces Air Reserve training program. He continued his studies at the University of Denver while assigned to a base nearby. After his discharge from the Air Force, he worked as a clerk in publicity at Warner Bros. in New show more York with his brother Danny. Together they began writing television and radio scripts for comics. They also wrote weekly revues for Camp Tamiment, the summer resort in the Poconos. Simon went on to become a playwright. His first play, Come Blow Your Horn, was written in 1961. His other plays included Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, and The Dinner Party. In 1991, he won a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Lost in Yonkers. He adapted several of his plays for film. He also wrote original movies including The Out-of-Towners, The Goodbye Girl, and The Heartbreak Kid. He wrote the book for several Broadway musicals including Little Me; Sweet Charity; Promises, Promises; and They're Playing Our Song. He wrote a two-volume autobiography. He died from complications of pneumonia on August 26, 2018 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1968
- Related movies
- Plaza Suite (1971 | IMDb)
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- Members
- 161
- Popularity
- 202,478
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.48)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 5
