"The Neil Simon plays ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"" and ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" are set in which city?"
Brighton Beach Memoirs of Ben. The two plays were produced and promoted as "The Neil Simon Plays". Despite generally positive reviews from New York critics, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" closed on November 1, 2009 after 9 performances and 25 previews due to weak ticket sales. Subsequently, the planned production of "Broadway Bound" was cancelled. "The New York Times", in analyzing the revival's failure, wrote that "What went wrong with 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' is a case study in success and failure on Broadway today. There were no big stars like Jude Law in the current commercial hit 'Hamlet,' there was no marketing campaign that framed
Brighton Beach Memoirs (film) of life in it... The movie was directed by Gene Saks, who directs many of Simon's plays on both the stage and the screen, and whose gift is for the theater. His plays have the breath of life; his movies feel like the official authorized version. Everything is by the numbers." Brighton Beach Memoirs (film) Brighton Beach Memoirs is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, written by Neil Simon, and starring Jonathan Silverman and Blythe Danner. Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1983 play of the same title, the first chapter of what is known as the "Eugene trilogy",