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  <about><![CDATA[Marvin Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Though primarily a comic writer, some of his plays, particularly the Eugene Trilogy and The Sunshine Boys, reflect on the twentieth century Jewish-American experience.]]></about>
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  <id type="integer">173890</id>
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    <![CDATA[Brighton Beach Memoirs]]>
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    <![CDATA[Full cast recording of a theatrical play read by Max Casella, Valerie Harper, Jonathan Silverman, and Joyce Van Patten. In Neil Simon s darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930 s Brooklyn, fourteen year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene s comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe. Simon creates a Brooklyn universe full of memorable characters, humor and truth. A BBC coproduction.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1984</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Odd Couple]]>
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    <![CDATA[It's Slob versus Neatnik as poker buddies Felix and Oscar suddenly find themselves bachelors again and innocently decide to share an apartment.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1965</published>
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    <![CDATA[Barefoot in the Park]]>
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    <![CDATA[Set in 1964, Barefoot in the Park follows the lives of newlyweds Paul and Connie Bratter as they adjust to married life in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment. Paul is a lawyer who's wound up a little too tight, while Connie is a free spirit bubbling over with romantic notions. In typical Simon style, all manner of comic chaos ensues as the Bratters' marriage begins to collapse under the pressure of a five-flight walk-up, a skylight that leaks snow, an eccentric neighbor who must climb through their apartment to get to his, and Connie's misguided attempt to marry off her mother. Acclaimed playwright, Neil Simon, is a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning author. &#147;Neil Simon's comedy Barefoot in the Park is 30-something now, but its newlywed protagonists, the Bratters, remain forever young.&#148; &#151; The Dallas Morning News ]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1964</published>
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  <isbn>0452268834</isbn>
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    <![CDATA[Lost in Yonkers]]>
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  <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1992</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 1]]>
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    <![CDATA[Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a  rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute  observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making  audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautifully realized  characters touch their hearts. These five plays show Simon at the  pinnacle of his extraordinary career. <p>Rumors   <p>Come Blow Your Horn <p>Barefoot in the Park <p>The Odd Couple  <p>The Star-Spangled Girl <p>Promises, Promises <p>Plaza Suite  <p>Including the author's introduction: &quot;How to Stop Writing and Other  Impossibilities&quot;.   </p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1979</published>
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    <![CDATA[Rumors: A Farce]]>
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  <average_rating>3.93</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1991</published>
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  <id type="integer">228632</id>
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    <![CDATA[Biloxi Blues]]>
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    <![CDATA[Winner of the 1985 Tony Award for Best Play, the second hilarious installment of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy follows a naÃ¯ve Eugene Jerome through boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi. His sadistic drill sergeant-who might just be nuts-is only part of Eugene's awakening journey in which he encounters an odd and eclectic group of fellow recruits, and his first experiences with sex and love. In the end, our young, aspiring writer takes away more than just his basic training.  This production features an exclusive interview with the prolific playwright.    Starring Justine Bateman, Josh Radnor, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Russell Soder, Darby Stanchfield]]>
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    <![CDATA[Plaza Suite]]>
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  <average_rating>3.58</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Good Doctor]]>
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  <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1974</published>
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  <id type="integer">170534</id>
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    <![CDATA[Rewrites: A Memoir]]>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[After serving an apprenticeship under Sid Caesar and Phil Silvers in Los Angeles, Neil Simon returned to New York at age 30 to embark on a career as a playwright. Some 35 years and three dozen plays later, the most successful comedy writer in the history of the American stage is still at it. In <em>Rewrites</em>, Simon reflects on his career, his relationship with his older brother and mentor Danny, and the loss of his wife Joan to cancer. Along the way, he reveals the price he has paid for his achievements: &quot;I felt like I had stopped relating to people as friends, relatives, acquaintances.... Instead they turned into my victims, as I ripped their private souls from their being, feeding my hunger, my insatiable desire to use them in my writings, in my plays, in my thoughts.&quot;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
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