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Come Blow Your Horn
Come Blow Your Horn
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Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 92 Pub. Date: 1961 ISBN-10: 0573607133 ISBN-13: 9780573607134 Cast Size: 4 women, 3 men
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About the Play:
Neil Simon's first Broadway comedy smash.
Come Blow Your Horn is a full-length comic drama by Neil
Simon. Alan Baker, a 30-ish bachelor playboy with time, money and
women to spare, welcomes rebellious and eager 21-year brother Buddy
into his den of iniquity while their horrified parents can only watch
and pray. A hilarious satire on the bachelor lifestyle that launched
this prolific playwright's Broadway career.
Come Blow Your Horn is a light-hearted comedy that concerns
the growing pains of two brothers in New York and the parents and
young women who keep coming in and out of their lives. Alan is a
bachelor-about-town (New York City, of course) in the swinging,
pre-Beatles '60s, cruising through life with no commitments, no
worries and plenty of girls. When his younger brother, Buddy, moves
in with him, though, his world is turned upside-down. Their father,
who wants his sons to take over the family business, is outraged by
their lifestyle. The mother tries to make peace in the family, but a
reconciliation is not in sight until Buddy's irresponsible behaviour
reminds Alan of himself. To the delight of his parents, Alan realizes
that it may be time for him to grow up, marry his girl friend Connie
and settle down. But what about Buddy? This farcical romp has all
classic characters and comic moments that are trademarks of later
Neil Simon plays – very funny line-by-line dialogue, warmly
drawn characters, and an apartment setting. There is even a hint of
his future successes when an unseen character – mentioned briefly –
is named Felix Unger (later to be celebrated in The Odd Couple).
Come Blow Your Horn premiered in 1961 at the Brooks
Atkinson Theatre, became a smash hit and ran for 19 months on Broadway. It opened in the West End of London in
1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and was later adapted by Norman
Lear becoming a hit movie starring Frank Sinatra. The play has become a
favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and
is
regularly performed in community theatre productions.
Cast: 4 women, 3 men.
What people say:
"A slick, lively, funny
comedy." — New York Times
"It's completely nuts and
banging with laughs." — New York World-Telegram
"Neil Simon's
first full-length stage comedy, Come Blow Your Horn,
is also one of his straight-ahead funniest – there's no soggy
pathos slowing things down here. It's also instructive, blueprinting
themes that he'd follow from then on and even previewing a couple of
popular characters from his most popular show." — Los
Angeles Times
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 have been blockbuster hits from
Beijing to Moscow. His true success, however, is in his unique way of
exposing something real in the American spirit.
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