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The Gingerbread Lady
The Gingerbread Lady
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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: 0573609357 ISBN-13: 9780573609350 Cast Size: 3 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
The Gingerbread Lady has long been a favourite of acting
teachers for Female Monologues, Male Monologues, and Female/Female Scenes.
The Gingerbread Lady is a full-length dramatic comedy by
Neil Simon. Coming home after a stint in a rehab facility to
overcome her alcohol addiction, a popular cabaret singer returns to a
group of people who support her, but who have their own challenges.
Close friends, family, theatre cronies and a former lover all have
some good intentions, but also their own agendas! The Gingerbread
Lady offers audiences a rare glimpse at Neil Simon's
darker wit and is a tour de force lead role for its star.
The Gingerbread Lady centers on Evy Meara who was once a
successful cabaret singer until her career hit the skids with her
descent into pills and liquor. After a short stay in rehab, her best
friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay
actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a jolly birthday party.
But insecurities and setbacks threaten to unravel Evy's health and
relationships. Enter Lou Tanner, a former lover, who ends up giving
her a black eye. The party is a wash out, the "gingerbread lady"
falls off the wagon and hits the ropes once again. While Neil
Simon's typical wit and hilarity permeate this piece, The
Gingerbread Lady is an entirely serious story of lost misfits,
genuinely and deeply touching, deviating from author's usual
hilarious farces to show his diverse talent.
The Gingerbread Lady premiered in 1970 at the
Plymouth Theatre on Broadway and was later rewritten by Neil Simon as the
film Only When I Laugh. The
play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops and is regularly performed in regional,
college, and community theatre productions.
Cast: 3 female, 3 male
What people say:
"He has combined an amusing
comedy with the atmosphere of great sadness. His characteristic wit
and humor are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of lost
misfits can often be genuinely and deeply touching." — The
New York Post
"Mr. Simon's play is as funny
as ever-the customary avalanche of hilarity, and landslide of pure
unbuttoned joy." — The New York Times
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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