Neil Simon, Broadway’s master of comedy, dies at 91

Neil Simon, Broadway’s master of comedy, dies at 91

NEW YORK: Playwright Neil Simon, an ace of satire whose giggle filled hits, for example, “The Odd Couple,” “Shoeless in the Park” and his “Brighton Beach” trilogy dominated Broadway for quite a long time, has died. He was 91.

Simon died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia encompassed by family at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, said Bill Evans, his longtime friend and the Shubert Organization director of media relations.

In the second 50% of the twentieth century, Simon was the American venue’s best and prolific playwrights, regularly chronicling middle class issues and fears.

Starting with “Come Blow Your Horn” in 1961 and continuing into the following century, he once in a while quit working on another play or musical. His list of credits is staggering.

The entertainment business world grieved his demise, with performing artist Josh Gad calling Simon “one of the primary influences on my life and profession.” Playwright Kristoffer Diaz said simply: “This damages.”

Simon’s stage victories included “The Prisoner of Second Avenue,” “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” “The Sunshine Boys,” “Square Suite,” “Part Two,” “Sweet Charity” and “Promises, Promises,” however there were different plays and musicals, as well, more than 30 in all. A considerable lot of his plays were adjusted into movies and one, “The Odd Couple,” even turned into a famous television series.

For seven months in 1967, he had four productions running in the meantime on Broadway: “Shoeless in the Park”; “The Odd Couple”; “Sweet Charity”; and “The Star-Spangled Girl.”

Indeed, even before he propelled his venue vocation, he impacted the world forever as one of the celebrated around the world stable of writers for comedian Sid Caesar that additionally included Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.

Simon was the recipient of four Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Kennedy Center respects (1995), four Writers Guild of America Awards, an American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement respect and, in 1983, he even had a Broadway theater named after him when the Alvin was rechristened the Neil Simon Theater.

In 2006, he won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which respects work that draws from the American experience. The previous year had seen a famous revival of “The Odd Couple,” reuniting Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick after their huge achievement in “The Producers” quite a while earlier.

In a 1997 interview with The Washington Post, Simon thought about his prosperity. “I realize that I have achieved the pinnacle of prizes. There’s no more cash anybody can pay me that I require. There are no honors they can give me that I haven’t won. I have no motivation to write another play aside from that I am alive and I like to do it,” he said.

Simon had an uncommon bumble in the fall of 2009, notwithstanding, when a Broadway revival of his “Brighton Beach Memoirs” shut unexpectedly after just nine exhibitions in light of poor ticket deals. It was to have kept running in repertory with Simon’s “Broadway Bound,” which was additionally dropped.

The bespectacled, mild-looking Simon (described in a New York Times magazine profile as looking like a bookkeeper or librarian who dressed “only this side of dull”) was a tenacious writer — and rewriter.

“I am most alive and most fulfilled sitting alone in a room, hoping that those words forming on the paper in the Smith-Corona will be the first flawless play at any point written in a single draft,” Simon wrote in the introduction to one of the numerous anthologies of his plays.

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