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Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon at Lake Worth Playhouse

Friday, November 29, 2024

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November 15 – December 1, 2024

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 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.”

“In many respects the funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of Simon’s plays.” – New York Daily News

“Hilarious comedy… His finest play… A delightful and enriching experience.” – CBS-TV

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Location 
Lake Worth Playhouse
713 Lake Ave.
561-586-6410
http://lakeworthplayhouse.org