California Suite: A Comedy in Two Acts - Softcover

Simon, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573606641 ISBN 13: 9780573606649

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc., 1977

Synopsis

Full Length, Comedy

Characters: 2 male, 3 female

Interior set

Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.

It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York , Visitor from Philadelphia , Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago.

In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The badinage flies fast and furious but Hannah's well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold.

The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband "en flagrante delicto" with a drunken hooker.

Visitors from London brings a British star as Academy Award nominee. Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality will be no comfort tonight...

The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples arrive, in turn, from London, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York and separately inhabit a Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Beverly Hills will never be the same.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz.

"Visitor From New York"

Marsha Mason as Hannah Warren

Bruce Davison as William Warren

"Visitor From Philadelphia"

Dennis Boutsikaris as Marvin Michaels

Amy Pietz as Millie Michaels

"Visitors From London"

Marsha Mason as Sidney Nichols

Bruce Davison as Diana Nichols

"Visitors From Chicago"

Dennis Boutsikaris as Mort Hollender

Amy Pietz as Beth Hollender

Bruce Davison as Stu Franklyn

Marsha Mason as Gert Franklyn

Directed by Gwenn Victor. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

About the Author:

America's most prolific and beloved playwright, Neil Simon is the author of more than two dozen plays and screenplays. In 1990, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the winner of three Tony Awards. Simon splits his time between New York and Los Angeles.

Marsha Mason, a four-time Academy Award(R) nominee and a two-time winner of the Golden Globe award, has starred in movies such as "The Goodbye Girl, Cinderella Liberty, " and "Nick of Time." Most recently she appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss in a stage revival of "The Prisoner of Second Avenue in London, " in "The Vagina Monologues" in New York, and as Sherry on TV's "Frasier." She now lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico, where she owns a successful medicinal herb farm. "Journey" is her first book.

Dennis Boutsikaris received an Obie Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and was Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. His films include *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On The Side. His TV work includes And Then There Was One, The Last Don and Chasing The Dragon; he was most recently the D.A. of NY in Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0573606641
• ISBN 13: 9780573606649
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122