Brighton Beach Memoirs

by Simon

Full cast recording of a theatrical play read by Max Casella, Valerie Harper, Jonathan Silverman, and Joyce Van Patten. In Neil Simon s darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930 s Brooklyn, fourteen year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene s comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty,... (read more)

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Lord Manleigh
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Perhaps Neil Simon's best play - a heartwarming look at a struggling Brooklyn family in the Great Depression, and the beginning of an excellent trilogy of plays that continues with Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.

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