Golden, CO 80401
By Neil Simon
Directed by Allison Watrous
The first in Neil Simon’s "Eugene Trilogy"
(followed by Biloxi Blues & Broadway Bound)
New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play
Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other—with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn, during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome lives in Brighton Beach with his family. Eugene is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees.
As our guide through his "memoirs," Eugene takes us through a comic series of observations and insights that show his family meeting life's challenges with pride, spirit, and a marvelous sense of humor.
The cast includes Michael Kosko (Eugene), Jessica Robblee (Blanche), Heather Hughes (Kate), Isabella Duran-Shedd (Laurie), Tessa Robinson (Nora), Curtiss Johns (Stanley) and Rory Pierce (Jack).
Stage and screen writer Neil Simon started in show business as a comedy writer, collaborating with talents like Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. Simon began writing plays in the 1960s—the first in a long list including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple, as well as the autobiographical Brighton Beach Memoirs. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1991 play Lost in Yonkers.