November 13, 2009

Friday 8:00pm

Detail:

Hilarity abounds in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite as three couples successively occupy Suite 719 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. According to the NY Times, Plaza Suite "Set the townlaughing." In the Visitor From Mamaroneck a suburban couple take the suite while their houseis being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?)years previously, and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields in the Visitor from Hollywood. His rendezvous with a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, turns out to be more than he bargained for. In the Visitor from Forest Hills the last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her wedding. The NY Daily News called Plaza Suite, "Wonderfully funny.... The blockbuster (3rd playlet) is the wildest and most uproarious farce I have seen on a stage."