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Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues
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Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 100 Pub. Date: 2010 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573690405 ISBN-13: 9780573690402 Cast Size: 2 female, 6 male
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About
the Play:
Biloxi Blues has long been a favourite of acting teachers for
Female Monologues, Male Monologues, Female/Female Scenes, and Female/Male Scenes.
Biloxi Blues is a full-length dramatic comedy by Neil
Simon. Sequel to Brighton Beach Memoirs. A naive recruit goes
into basic training to serve in World War II, finding romance and
developing his writing talents by observing the diverse group of men
he serves with – and the strange sergeant he serves under.
Biloxi Blues is set at an Army basic training camp in
beautiful Biloxi, Mississippi in the dog days of summer 1943. Six
raw, young recruits learn to BE ARMY and in the process learn more
than they could have imagined about themselves, each other, and the
war-torn world they are about to enter. A hilarious coming-of-age
story about a naïve Jewish boy from New York City, going through
basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L'
along with some harsher lessons. Eugene Morris Jerome (a
fictionalized version of Neil Simon) holds three wartime
goals; to fall in love and lose his innocence, become a writer, and
come home from World War II with all his body parts intact! His
enthusiastic pursuit of all three, mixed with an exhilaration for
life makes him a target for teasing and the not-so-friendly attention
of the platoon's crazy Drill Sergeant. But amongst the push-ups,
latrine duty and the questionable food, there is Daisy – the
charming, well-read convent girl whom Eugene falls for at a USO
dance. The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's
autobiographical Brighton Beach trilogy which began with Brighton
Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound.
Biloxi Blues premiered in 1984 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los
Angeles. It opened on Broadway in 1985 at the Neil Simon Theatre, was
a mega-hit, winning the Tony Award for best play and ran for 524
performances. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is
regularly performed in regional, high school, college, and
community theatre productions.
Cast: 2 female, 6 male
What people say:
"A fine comedy, and another
step in the process of making Simon neither so simple, nor so
simplistic." — New York Post
"Joyous and unexpectedly
rewarding." — New York Times
"A play that rings with a
newer, deeper, sweeter truth." — New York Magazine
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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