Word: nicholses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE proves once again that Neil Simon is a master mirthologist, as in two of three one-act plays he adroitly sketches a satire and broadly paints a farce. In the first play, Visitor from Mamaroneck, he achieves a new tone of rue as he depicts the poignant confrontation...
JOE EGG. The juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose...
THE PRODUCERS. Zero Mostel as a Broad way producer caricatures Merrick not as David but Goliath in this often disjointed and inconsistent yet frequently uproariously funny film directed by Mel Brooks. THE GRADUATE. Director Mike Nichols doesn't quite pull a Babbitt out of the hat in this sophomoronic...
NEW PLAYS Plaza Suite A Neil Simon comedy is a small body of plot surrounded by laughter. He and Director Mike Nichols are Broadway's most consummate mirtholo-gists. Playgoers at Plaza Suite don't have their ribs merely tickled, but tackled-by Simon, Nichols and two other...
Scott's triumph is Visitor from Forest Hills, a zany wedding tableau in which an irate father, pressed past mind and pocketbook, cannot budge his distraught daughter out of a locked bathroom to the altar. He threatens, he cajoles, he implores. He nearly breaks his arm ramming the door...