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Neil Simon's coming-of-age play hits the stage this weekend.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Theatre Company opens its 2009-2010 season with Broadway Bound, the third and final play in the Neil Simon autobiographical trilogy. The past two seasons have opened with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.
The FAC Theatre Company mounts this final installment of the “Eugene Trilogy” just as two of the plays are being prepared for a Broadway revival. Both Brighton Beach and Broadway Bound will open in November in New York City and will be performed in repertory.
The play is set in the late 1940s in Brighton Beach, N.Y. Eugene Morris Jerome, and his older brother Stanley, have started their careers as professional comedy writers. But when the brothers use their home life in Brighton Beach as inspiration for a radio comedy skit, the Jerome family may never be the same. While the brothers did find the success that ultimately launches their careers in New York City as television comedy writers, they also have to deal with the break up of their family.
The show runs from Oct 9-25. For more information, click here.
