The text of the Neil Simon's musical about a young man who lends his apartment to wayward office colleagues

Promises, Promises

Neil Simon

Burt Bacharach

Hal David

Random House]

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

New Amer Library (Mm)

Genre: Dramatic Comedy Characters: 3 males, 3 females Scenery: Interior Maureen Stapleton won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress for the role of Evy Meara, a popular singer who has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a jolly birthday party. Enter Lou Tanner, a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The party is a wash out, the "gingerbread lady" falls off the wagon and hits the ropes once again. Later rewritten by Neil Simon as the film Only When I Laugh starring Marsha Mason. "He has combined an amusing comedy with the atmosphere of great sadness. His characteristic wit and humor are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of lost misfi ts can often be genuinely and deeply touching." - New York Post "Mr. Simon's play is as funny as ever-the customary avalanche of hilarity, and landslide of pure unbuttoned joy." - The New York Times

The Gingerbread Lady: A New Play

Samuel. French

This is the play published by Samuel French Inc who specializes in plays and books on theater

I Ought to be in Pictures

Concord Theatricals

Full Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Comb. Ints/Ext. Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and Grandpa the Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here." "Brings a fresh glow to Broadway...In many respects his funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays."-New York Daily News "Simultaneously poignant and funny. The characters are fully dimensional, believable... An outstanding show...the best seen on Broadway in too long a time."-Variety "Hilarious comedy...His finest play...A delightful and enriching experience."-CBS-TV

Humor & Entertainment

Samuel French, Inc.

Full Length, Comedy Characters: 7 male, 2 female 
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Inspired by the playwright's youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman "Max Prince". 
"Old style comedy: fast and furious."-The Wall Street Journal 
"One of [Simon's] funniest...Comedy, comedy all the way."-Newsweek 
"Enough laughs per minute to assure [it] a long run and many happy audiences."-USA Today 
"The funniest comedy on Broadway in years and likely to remain the funniest comedy on Broadway for years."-Variety

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

A collection of whimsical and biting cartoons that capture the absurdity and hilarity of the everyday offer a slightly jaundiced and sometimes all too real perspective on contemporary issues, including relationships, family, and love. 15,000 first printing.

NO ONE YOU KNOW: A Collection of Cartoons

Comics & Graphic Novels

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Comic Strips

Simon&Schuster

The hilarious lives of two mismatched roommatesirascible slob Oscar Madison and the fastidious Felix Ungerare chronicled in the complete original screenplays for two of Neil Simon's most famous worksThe Odd Couple and its sequel, Travelin' Light. Original.

The ODD COUPLE I &II: The Original Screenplays

This is a brand new broduct and has never been used.

Hollywood Hits: 70 Years of Memorable Movie Music

This hardback book "Proposals" is preowned and is in very good condition. It is 1998. The dust cover looks good except on the back cover at the top left is a tear and a very small tear on the bottom right by the spine. I do not see markings in the book but I did not look at each page. Other than the damage on the dust cover the book is in like new condition.

Proposals

Stage & Screen

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Promises, Promises

Brighton Beach Memoirs

The Gingerbread Lady: A New Play

I Ought to be in Pictures

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

NO ONE YOU KNOW: A Collection of Cartoons

The ODD COUPLE I &II: The Original Screenplays

Hollywood Hits: 70 Years of Memorable Movie Music

Proposals