Audiobook18 hours
The Neil Simon Collection
Written by Neil Simon
Narrated by Dan Castellaneta, Richard Dreyfuss and Full Cast
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world’s most celebrated, translated, and widely performed playwrights.
Barefoot in the Park
Newlyweds move into a new apartment with no furniture, the wrong paint, leaking
skylight and wacky neighbors! A classic comedy! Performed by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman, Judy Simmons and Eric Stoltz.
The Odd Couple
Two legendarily mismatched roommates bring down the house in this classic comedy by America’s most successful playwright. Performed by: Dan Castellaneta, Stanley DeSantis, Steven Hack, Jamie Hanes, Nathan Lane, David Paymer, Linda Purl and Yeardley Smith
Plaza Suite
Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Performed by: Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Amy Irving, Marsha Mason, Alfred Molina, Kerry Shale, Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Fast-moving dialog with nonstop Simon quips and jokes performed extremely well by two fine actors: who could ask for more? Performed by: Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss, Betty Garrett, Sharon Madden and Marsha Mason.
California Suite
A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples separately inhabit the same Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Performed by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz.
Chapter Two
Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon’s portrait of a widowed novelist who fears he’ll never love again. Performed by: David Dukes, Sharon Gless, Gates McFadden and Grant Shaud.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
In Neil Simon’s first installment of his darkly funny semiautobiographical Eugene Trilogy, we meet his family in 1930’s Brooklyn. Performed by: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan
Silverman and Joyce Van Patten.
Biloxi Blues
The second hilarious installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp. Performed by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh Radnor, Russell Soder and Darby Stanchfield
Broadway Bound
In the final installment of Neil Simon’s trilogy, Eugene and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of comedy writing. Performed by: Caroline Aaron, Dan Castellaneta, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, James Gleason, Alan Mandell, Jonathan Silverman, JoBeth Williams and Scott Wolf.
Lost in Yonkers
Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. Performed by: Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Diskin, Arye Gross, Roxanne Hart and Kenneth Schmidt.
Barefoot in the Park
Newlyweds move into a new apartment with no furniture, the wrong paint, leaking
skylight and wacky neighbors! A classic comedy! Performed by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman, Judy Simmons and Eric Stoltz.
The Odd Couple
Two legendarily mismatched roommates bring down the house in this classic comedy by America’s most successful playwright. Performed by: Dan Castellaneta, Stanley DeSantis, Steven Hack, Jamie Hanes, Nathan Lane, David Paymer, Linda Purl and Yeardley Smith
Plaza Suite
Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Performed by: Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Amy Irving, Marsha Mason, Alfred Molina, Kerry Shale, Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Fast-moving dialog with nonstop Simon quips and jokes performed extremely well by two fine actors: who could ask for more? Performed by: Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss, Betty Garrett, Sharon Madden and Marsha Mason.
California Suite
A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples separately inhabit the same Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Performed by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz.
Chapter Two
Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon’s portrait of a widowed novelist who fears he’ll never love again. Performed by: David Dukes, Sharon Gless, Gates McFadden and Grant Shaud.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
In Neil Simon’s first installment of his darkly funny semiautobiographical Eugene Trilogy, we meet his family in 1930’s Brooklyn. Performed by: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan
Silverman and Joyce Van Patten.
Biloxi Blues
The second hilarious installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp. Performed by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh Radnor, Russell Soder and Darby Stanchfield
Broadway Bound
In the final installment of Neil Simon’s trilogy, Eugene and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of comedy writing. Performed by: Caroline Aaron, Dan Castellaneta, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, James Gleason, Alan Mandell, Jonathan Silverman, JoBeth Williams and Scott Wolf.
Lost in Yonkers
Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. Performed by: Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Diskin, Arye Gross, Roxanne Hart and Kenneth Schmidt.
Author
Neil Simon
Neil Simon is the writer of more than forty Broadway plays, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, and Lost in Yonkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
More audiobooks from Neil Simon
Rewrites A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barefoot in the Park Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brighton Beach Memoirs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost in Yonkers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chapter Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prisoner of Second Avenue Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Biloxi Blues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Broadway Bound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odd Couple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5California Suite Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plaza Suite Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Goodbye Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Neil Simon's Eugene Trilogy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to The Neil Simon Collection
Related audiobooks
The Odd Couple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Neil Simon's Eugene Trilogy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Broadway Bound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Goodbye Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Act One: from the Autobiography by Moss Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5True West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Watch on the Rhine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Awake and Sing! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All My Sons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5M. Butterfly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hot L Baltimore Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Biloxi Blues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5California Suite Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prisoner of Second Avenue Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Noel Coward Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Once in a Lifetime Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Showbiz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plaza Suite Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speed the Plow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incident At Vichy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Six Degrees of Separation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God of Carnage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Assembled Parties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prelude to a Kiss Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Undecided Molecule Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Actor Retires Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Tale of the Allergist's Wife Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Country Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Performing Arts For You
Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grapes of Wrath Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is this Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Here We Go Again: My Life In Television Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Racing in the Rain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Power of Myth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dracula (dramatic reading) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way I Heard It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Last Words: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Save the Cat! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pure Drivel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Julius Caesar: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everywhere An Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years In Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life in Parts Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for The Neil Simon Collection
Rating: 4.666666666666667 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
6 ratings0 reviews