Brighton Beach Memoirs is part one of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, and her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters, and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household.
Brighton Beach Memoirs plays March 11-13, 18-20 and 25-27
Friday and Saturday Evening shows are at 8:00PM, Sunday Matinee is at 3:00PM
Tickets are $15 for evening shows and $10 for Sunday matinees. Seniors and Students are $12
Groups tickets for 15 or more are $13 for Adults and $10 for Students and Seniors.
Students are up to and including college. Seniors are 62 and older.
Winner of New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play (1983)
Book by Neil Simon
Production Team
- Director – Beth Brody
- Assistant Director – Yvonne Anderson
- Technical Director – Michael Anderson
- Producers – Ken Brody and Sylvia Mallory
Cast
- Eugene Jerome – Leo Brody
- Blanche Morton – Aubrey Comperatore
- Kate Jerome – Lisa Binion
- Laurie Norton – Lydia Nethercutt
- Nora Morton – Ashlea Rowbotham
- Stanley Jerome – David Salisbury
- Jack Jerome – Falcon Arendell
