UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • February 2016 • 15 Raven Performing Arts T eater Presents: Brighton Beach Memoirs


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burg, CA. ~ T e Raven Performing Arts T e- ater is excit- ed to bring


you Brighton Beach Memoirs, a hilarious semi-autobiograph- ical play written by Neil Simon. Oy vay - do we have a play for you!


keep coming! T e play revolves around Eugene’s detailed jour- nal of his family’s eccentricities. T e play premiered on Broad-


way at the Alvin T eater, March, 1983, aſt er a pre-Broad- way engagement at T e Curran T eater, San Francisco (yay). It closed in 1986 aſt er nearly 1300 performances. Matthew Broderick played Eugene. Brighton Beach Memoirs was nominated for and won several Tony Awards. T e play was adapted into a movie in 1986. Neil Simon kept


the fun going with Eugene and his nutty family. Biloxi Blues dealt with Eugene’s armed service years, and Broadway Bound is about Eugene and his brother be- coming radio show comedy writers. With the success of this trilogy, Si- mon’s reputation as a premiere Ameri- can playwrite was cemented. Look-


Brighton Beach, Brooklyn,


1937. T e play stars Eugene Jerome, a Polish-Jewish Ameri- can teenager who is obsessed with baseball and girls - but not in that order. He lives in a household with his wacky immediate family and other quirky relatives. Eugene makes witty and sarcastic quips to the audience throughout the play. Along the lines of this - “I hate my name - Eugene Morris Je- rome - how am I ever going to play for the Yankees with a name like that? You have to be a Joe or a Tony or Frankie.” An- other - aſt er an argument with his mother - “See why I write all of this this down? If I grow up all twisted and warped, I want the world to know why.” And the


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see this! Raven


Performing Arts T eater, 115 North Street, Healdsburg. T e show runs January February 14, 2016.


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