This book offers actors a wide range of scenes that are intended for workshop, audition and classroom use. The synopses of the plays cover major plot points and offer a general story outline. Plays include: Come Blow Your Horn; The Odd Couple; Plaza Suite; The Sunshine Boys; California Suite; Fools; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Broadway Bound; Jake's Women and London Suite.
Brings together the texts of Simon's plays, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, California Suite, God's Favorite, The Sunshine Boys, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
Brings together the texts of Simon's plays, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, California Suite, God's Favorite, The Sunshine Boys, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
Al and Willie as "Lewis and Clark" were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren't even speaking. When CBS requests them for a "History of Comedy" retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries and laughs. -- publisher description.
"This is the first authorized collection of monologues from Mr. Simon's plays and the most significant contribution to the drama genre in the past twenty-five years. As a scene-study book it is invaluable to actors at all levels. This definitive publication contains speeches for men and women from "Come Blow Your Horn" through "Jake's Women." Each play is comprehensively synopsized, and an in-depth exposition establishing setting and intent precedes each speech. With an introduction by Jack Lemmon."--Amazon.com viewed Dec. 31, 2020.
THE STORY: Andy and Norman are two earnest young men using their apartment as a publishing office for a protest magazine in San Francisco. Sophie, an Olympic swimmer and all-American girl, moves into another apartment on the same floor. Sophie makes her