Other Writings of Neil Simon

Screenplays
Television Series
Television Movies
Television Specials
Collected Writings


Neil Simon Rewrites: A Memoir This moving account covers the period between the composition of Simon's first play, Come Blow Your Horn, and the loss of his first wife, Joan, and focuses on the relationship between Simon's writing and his life. Highly recommended for anyone who has seen any of Simon's plays or movies, or appreciates good writing, or is interested in the precarious relationship between an artist's life and his work.

Read a Review of this book by Charles Wright
Boston Book Review of cassette edition by Kate Sullivan (3/1/97)
Publishers Weekly Review (8/19/96)

published: Simon & Schuster, October 7, 1996.


Neil Simon Rewrites
Neil Simon Monologues Neil Simon Monologues: Speeches from the works of America's Foremost Playwright  This is the first authorized collection of monologues from Simon's plays and the most significant contribution to the drama genre in the past twenty-five years. As a scene-study book it is invaluable to actors at all levels. This definitive publication contains speeches for men and women from Come Blow Your Horn through Jake's Women. Each play is comprehensively synopsized, and an in-depth exposition establishing setting and intent precedes each speech. With an introduction by Jack Lemmon.

published: Dramaline Publications, July 1996.


Screenplays


Television Series

  • (With Danny Simon) The Phil Silvers Arrow Show, NBC, 1948.
  • Your Show of Shows, NBC, 1950-54.
  • The Tallulah Bankhead Show, NBC, 1951.
  • The Sid Caesar Show (also known as Caesar's Hour), NBC, 1956-57.
  • Sid Caesar Invites You, ABC, 1958.
  • (With Danny Simon and Mel Brooks) The Phil Silvers Show (also known as Sergeant Bilko), CBS, 1958-59.
  • The Garry Moore Show, CBS, and A Quiet War, 1976.


Television Movies

  • Plaza Suite (based on his play), ABC, 1987.
  • Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" (based on his play), ABC, 1992.
  • The Sunshine Boys (based on his play), Hallmark Entertainment, 1995.
  • London Suite (based on his play), 1996.
  • Jake's Women (based on his play), 1996.

Television Specials

  • The Trouble with People, NBC, 1972.

Writer for:

  • Love, Life, Liberty, and Lunch, 1976.
  • The Sunshine Boys (based on his play), 1977.
  • Barefoot in the Park (based on his play), 1982.
  • "Big Joe and Kansas," a segment of Happy Endings, 1975.

Adapter of material for:

  • Best Foot Forward
  • Dearest Enemy
  • Connecticut Yankee


Radio Series

  • The Robert Q Lewis Show, CBS
  • (with Danny Simon) Goodman Ace, CBS.


Collected Writings

  • The Comedy of Neil Simon (includes Come Blow Your Horn, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, and Last of the Red Hot Lovers), Random House, 1972.
  • The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Volume II (includes Little Me, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God's Favorite, California Suite, and Chapter Two), Random House, 1979.
    The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Volume IV
  • The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Volume III (includes Sweet Charity, they're Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Fools, The Odd Couple-Female Version, and The Brighton Beach Trilogy: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound)
  • The Collected Plays of Neil Simon,Volume IV (includes Lost in Yonkers, Rumors, Jake's Women, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and London Suite)
    published: Touchstone Books, April 1998


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