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45 Seconds from Broadway
45 Seconds from Broadway
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Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 90 Pub. Date: 2011 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573628505 ISBN-13: 9780573628504 Cast Size: 6 female, 6 male
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About
the Play:
45 Seconds from Broadway is a full-length comedy by Neil
Simon. This uproariously funny play takes place in the Polish Tea
Room where an assortment of theatrical types, from a controversial
comedian to a fading actress to matinee ladies, are all taken care of
by the couple who run the restaurant. From Neil Simon,
America's master of Contemporary Broadway Comedy, it is said
that 45 Seconds from Broadway is his "Valentine to New
York."
45 Seconds from Broadway is a heart-warming comedy that
takes us behind the scenes in the entertainment world, this time near
the heart of New York City's theatre district. The title refers to
the amount of time it takes to walk to Broadway from the play's
setting, the popular Broadway district eatery Café Edison on New
York's 47th Street. Part homage and part farce, this play is Neil
Simon's tribute to what he calls "the last bastion of what
used to be the greatness of Broadway Theater!" Before giant
productions of singing jungle animals took over the Great White Way,
there were actual plays on Broadway, and those plays started in
coffee shops like the one in which this play is set. Characters
wander in and out, sitting down, chatting with each other, building
friendships, and giving glimpses into their lives in the "Big
Apple." Nicknamed the Polish Tea Room, in homage to Bernie and
Zelda, the couple who run the place and make it what it is – a home
away from home for everyone who enters. They also help young,
starving artists by giving them food, advice, and employment.
Broadway theatre personalities – both washed-up and on-the-rise –
and native New Yorkers also frequent the coffee shop, bringing
character, humour, and wisdom with them. 45 Seconds from Broadway
offers great acting roles in a play about normal, everyday people,
their tragedies and triumphs, and the small coffee shop in which they
sit, relax, and spend time among friends.
45 Seconds from Broadway premiered in 2001 on Broadway at
the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City. The
play is regularly performed in regional, college, and community
theatre productions.
Cast: 6 female, 6 male
What people say:
"The play may have the
rat-a-tat pace of a Marx Brothers movie, but it exists not to create
Groucho-like anarchy but to weave fractured lives into healing
harmony." — The New York Times
"A warm-spirited tribute... a
theatrical valentine." — Variety
"With 45 Seconds
from Broadway Mr. Simon is back to doing what he does
best: straight comedy peppered with one-liners." —
CurtainUp
About the Playwright:
Neil Simon (1927-2018) was America's most prolific
playwright. He had dozens of plays and nearly as many major motion
pictures produced. He was showered with more Academy and Tony
nominations than any other writer, and is the only playwright to have
four Broadway productions running simultaneously. His plays have been
produced in dozens of languages, and in 1983 became the only living
playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named
in his honour. His true success, however, is in his unique way of
exposing something real in the American spirit.
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