Broadway Bound
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Producer Whitten Plans to Bring 'Enter Laughing' to Broadway (Playbill)...acclaim in the role of David Kolowitz, would recreate his work for Broadway audiences. Grisetti was part of the cast of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, which recently closed during rehearsals, robbing him of his Broadway debut. Enter... In this article: Enter Laughing, Broadway, Joseph Stein, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, So Long, 174th Street, and Robert Morse |
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Playbill.com | 6 days ago
Paulson Paired With Lavin for Broadway's Collected Stories
This is the Broadway debut of a play that MTC had success with in its 1997 New York City premiere, Off-Broadway. Lavin (TV's "Alice," Broadway Bound, Gypsy) and director Lynne Meadow worked together on MTC's hit The Tale of the Allergist's...
In this article: Sarah Paulson, Broadway, Linda Lavin, The Glass Menagerie, Golden Globe, Lynne Meadow, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Signature Theatre
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Backstage | November 04, 2009
'Brighton Beach' Bombs
...Neil Simon play about the Jeromes-a 1930s family coping with Depression-era hardships-producers were planning on running Simon's sequel "Broadway Bound" with the same cast on the same set in repertory. "Bound" was set to open Dec. 10, but the...
In this article: Neil Simon, Tracy Letts, Mark Teschner, and Broadway
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washingtonpost.com | November 02, 2009
Peter Marks on surprise closing of Neil Simon's 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'
...to producers. The news of the show's closing, and the cancellation of the start-up of a revival of Simon's companion piece "Broadway Bound," electrified Broadway: Rarely, if ever, has a show garnering such encouraging notices...
In this article: Neil Simon, Broadway, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Columbia University
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Independent.co.uk - Theater | November 02, 2009
Neil Simon 'dumbfounded' after play flops
...play Brighton Beach Memoirs opened to fine reviews in New York 10 days ago and next up, in the same theatre, was its companion piece, Broadway Bound. But bound to nowhere is the reality now, as producers and directors on the Great...
In this article: Neil Simon, Laurie Metcalf, Hamlet, The Odd Couple, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Barefoot in the Park, God of Carnage, Sopranos, and Jude Law
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | November 02, 2009
Neil Simon Broadway play closes after just one week
...again because of poor ticket sales. The closure of Brighton Beach Memoirs forced the cancellation of a second Simon production, Broadway Bound, which was to have opened at the same theatre in December. Simon, 82, told the New York Times...
In this article: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, New York, Hamlet, and Neil Simon
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Chicago Tribune | November 02, 2009
David Cromer learns a tough lesson in Broadway economics
...closed yesterday at the Nederlander Theatre in New York after a run of all of a week. A planned accompanying production of "Broadway Bound," slated for later this year, now isn't going to open at all. Inside and outside the show, hands...
In this article: Broadway, Neil Simon, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Chicago, and New York
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Centre Daily Times | November 02, 2009
Broadway faces a busy, if uneasy fall season
...of the busiest in years. And the revival's collapse has had a ripple effect, forcing the cancellation of a second Simon production, "Broadway Bound," which was to have opened at the same theater (the Nederlander) in December and then run in...
In this article: Broadway, Neil Simon, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Nederlander Organization, David Mamet, Finian's Rainbow, and Abigail Breslin
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Chicago Tribune | November 02, 2009
Broadway run ends abruptly for Chicago director's 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'
...Beach Memoirs" closed Sunday at the Nederlander Theatre in New York after a run of one week. A planned accompanying production of "Broadway Bound," slated for later this year, now isn't going to open at all. Inside and outside the show,...
In this article: Broadway, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Chicago, Neil Simon, and E mail
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Connecticut Post | October 31, 2009
Broadway 'Brighton' revival closes early
The producers of the "The Neil Simon Plays," the in-repertory Broadway packaging of Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Broadway Bound," announced Saturday that the production would be closing Sunday. "Brighton Beach Memoirs," which...
In this article: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Laurie Metcalf, and Roseanne
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Reuters | October 25, 2009
Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs get darker reading
...Machine" and "Our Town" -- would handle the high-profile assignment of staging the Broadway revivals of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Broadway Bound," which will run in repertory under the heading "The Neil Simon Plays." "Brighton," which...
In this article: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon, Laurie Metcalf, Alexandra Socha, Santino Fontana, Jessica Hecht, and Dennis Boutsikaris
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Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene Trilogy, following Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.
The play is about Eugene and his older brother, Stanley, dealing with their parents' relationship falling apart as they are working together to becoming aspiring comedy writers for the radio, and, eventually, television. They discover that their father, Jack, has been cheating on their mother Kate. It is obvious to the family before Jack even admits it, and they try to find ways for Kate to cope with the loss when Jack may eventually leave. Jack reveals that the woman he has been seeing is dying.
When Eugene and Stanley find a job where they can write short comedic skits for the radio, they obscurely make fun of their own family. Jack can hear the similarities between the fictional family in the broadcast and their own family, and becomes outraged. He gets into a major argument with Stanley, which turns to an argument about Jack's affair. Later, Kate holds a nostalgic conversation with Eugene, revealing how she had tried to win his father's heart when she was younger.
Eventually, Jack leaves. Stanley and Eugene move out the house when they are offered a bigger opportunity to success. Kate lives alone in the house with her father (an elderly Jewish man with socialist leanings who provides the play with most of its warmth and humor).
Produced by Emanuel Azenberg, the play premiered on Broadway with Linda Lavin, Jonathan Silverman, and Jason Alexander. It was adapted for a 1992 television movie starring Anne Bancroft and Hume Cronyn. Joan Rivers took over the role of Kate for the play's final months on Broadway.
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