The Suite Trilogy
The Suite Trilogy
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 1:33pmBroadway needs to start thinking big. Why doesn't someone produce Neil Simon's Suite Trilogy - Plaza Suite, California Suite, London Suite. The shows could run in rep using the same actors. And it would be nice to have a comedy on Broadway.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 2:11pm^^^ Can I put you down for the first $1 million?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#4The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 4:13pmDon't know the others all that well, but Plaza Suite is my favorite Neil Simon play. I'd love to see Viola Davis in all three roles (as I said on the perfect casting game thread), with three different co-stars in each act.
#5The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 4:16pmRemind me: how did things turn out the last time someone decided to "think big" and mount two related Neil Simon plays in rep?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 4:20pm^ Santino Fontana won a Drama Desk Award!
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 4:26pm
"Remind me: how did things turn out the last time someone decided to "think big" and mount two related Neil Simon plays in rep?"
You mean the ones directed by David Cromer who most recently took one of the funniest plays (House of Blue Leaves) and made a miserable mess out of it.
If the shows were given a director who understands comedy they would do very well.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#8The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 4:31pmYeah, the ones directed by David Cromer who, at the time, was the hottest commodity in New York.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 5:00pmI can just see the hotel suite breaking apart at the end. Maybe Cromer can miscast it like he did his other shows. Maybe he should try playing Simon's work as a tragedy.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#10The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 6:11pm
I can just see the hotel suite breaking apart at the end.
No, that would happen in a Bart Sher production.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#11The Suite Trilogy
Posted: 7/20/11 at 7:18pm
In theory, I think this would be a fantastic idea.
I'm a huge Neil Simon fan and would want nothing more to get a chance to see a Broadway production of one of his shows - but after Brighton Beach and Broadway Bound closed early, I'm wondering if there are producers who would want to tackle this - I am hopeful that someone, somewhere out there with passion, money and a strong stomach could work their magic.
We are overdue for some Simon on Broadway...and he's not getting any younger (a new play perhaps??) but hopefully he'll get his due respect.
As an aside, I caught London Suite when it was done Off-Broadway, and found it to be the weakest of the trilogy. Loved California Suite, I think that play - and movie - are genius
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