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California Suite

  • Neil Simon
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, 1970s
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573606649

It's a humorous confection divided into four parts; Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadalphia, Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: 1970s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
It's a humerous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago.

In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The banter flies fast and furious but Hannah's well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold.

The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband "en flagrante delicto" with a drunken hooker.

Visitors from London brings a British star as Academy Award nominee, Diana, returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality will be no comfort tonight...

The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared.

Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.
REVIEWS:

"For those of us who imagine Los Angeles as nothing but a long street in a desperate search of a parking lot, Neil Simon's California Suite... will come as a vast relief... Mr. Simon is writing at his ebullient best... his language has the grace of conversation we wish our friends could muster... makes us laugh so effortlessly."

 The New York Times

"The incisiveness of his wit is driven by an insight into everyday humans and the cultures from which their habits are derived."

 Chicago Theatre Beat

"The middle aged visitors had last night's middle aged audience laughing heartily."

 NY Daily News

Premiere Production: California Suite was first presented on Broadway by Emanuel Azenberg and Robert Fryer at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City on June 10, 1976. It was directed by Gene Saks.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Expandable casting

  • Visitor from New York
    HANNAH WARREN
    WILLIAM WARREN

  • Visitor from Philadelphia
    MARVIN MICHAELS
    BUNNY
    MILLIE MICHAELS

  • Visitors from London
    SIDNEY NICHOLS
    DIANA NICHOLS

  • Visitors from Chicago
    MORT HOLLENDER
    BETH HOLLENDER
    STU FRANKLYN
    GERT FRANKLYN

    • Available Material

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    It's a humerous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago.

    In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The banter flies fast and furious but Hannah's well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold.

    The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband "en flagrante delicto" with a drunken hooker.

    Visitors from London brings a British star as Academy Award nominee, Diana, returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality will be no comfort tonight...

    The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared.

    Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.

    California Suite was first presented on Broadway by Emaniel Azenberg and Robert Fryer at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City on June 10, 1976. It was directed by Gene Saks.

    		$24.95

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