About the Play:

Broadway Bound has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues.

Broadway Bound is a full-length comedy by Neil Simon. In the third and last play of his Brighton Beach trilogy, Eugene and his brother deal with their parents' crumbling marriage as they start careers as comedy writers.

Broadway Bound is about family and the ties that bind. Eugene Jerome (based on Neil Simon) and his older brother Stanley are trying to break into the world of show business as professional comedy writers, while coping with their parents break-up and eventual divorce. When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, the family is upset to hear a thinly-veiled portrait of themselves played for laughs. How will Eugene and his brother balance their loyalties to their family and to their ambitions? The conclusion of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.

Broadway Bound premiered in 1986 at Duke University's Reynolds Theater. The play opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre later that year, where it played for 756 performances and was a Finalist for 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in reegional, college, and community theatre productions.

Cast: 2 female, 4 male

What people say:

"Contains some of the author's most accomplished writing." — The New York Times

"A lovely play; warm, perceptive and gently humorous." — Newsday

"Expectedly funny and unexpectedly moving." — New York Daily News

"Simon's writing remains delightful...." — Washington Post

"Broadway Bound is Mr. Simon's richest and most penetrating retrospective. It also contains probably the tenderest scene America's contemporary master of comedy has ever written." — The Christian Science Monitor

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.