#neil simon

[citizenscreen]

Peter Falk and Lee Grant in Neil Simon’s “The Prisoner of Second Avenue" at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Broadway. The play opened on November 11, 1971. Directed by Mike Nichols.

[gregorygalloway]

Murder by Death was released on 23 June 1976.

Coming a little more than 7 months after the film version of Neil Simon's 1972 play The Sunshine Boys, Simon's follow up was a spoof of the murder mystery, starring Eileen Brennan, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Estelle Winwood, and Truman Capote (in his feature film debut).

[scribledon]

Saw a misogynistic 1950s illustration on Pinterest and thought “how can I make this about my hyperfixation”

[catholicboytrouble]

[slowburningechoes]

Robert Sean Leonard outside of Neil Simon Theatre during his run as “Harold Hill” in The Music Man (2001).

good morning everyone!!! I hope you enjoy the top image as much as I do! I’ve never seen it before and it brought me so much joy when I found it!!!!!!!

[starship21zedna9]

It just occurred to me that two of Pete Duel's shows were inspired by movies starring Robert Redford.

Obviously, Alias Smith and Jones borrows heavily from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

And it turns out that Love on a Rooftop is based on Barefoot in the Park. Which, I grant you, was a Broadway play before it was a movie and I believe the show started in '66 whereas the movie came out in '67. But Redford starred in the play too, so my point still stands. If I had a nickel for every time etc. etc.

[addictivecontradiction]

Murder by death, 1976

[consanguinitatum]

From the Archive: Before Drama School—David Tennant and the St. Mark’s Players Years

I’m dusting off another one from my archive today! This time I'm heading to late-1980s Paisley to talk about the St. Mark’s Players, an amateur drama group based at St. Mark’s Oldhall. David's father Sandy was the minister there, and teenage David couldn't help but get involved!

I'm not sure just how many productions David did with the group, but I do know he did at least three: a farcical murder mystery called Wanted–One Body!, an Easter courthouse drama called The Vigil, and a play by Neil Simon about a cursed village where everyone is hilariously stupid called Fools.

Check it out!

From the Archive: Before Drama School—David Tennant and the St. Mark's Players Years

...we reconstruct three of teenage David's little-known 1980s amateur productions in Paisley