Synopsis

The Gingerbread Lady

$10.99

Neil Simon

Published by Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

A popular singer who has gone to pot with booze and sex. We meet her at the end of a ten week drying out period at a sanitarium when her friend, her daughter, and an actor try to help her adjust to sobriety

But all three have the opposite effect on her. The friend is so constantly vain that she loses her husband; the actor, a homosexual, is also doomed, and indeed loses his part three days before an opening; and the daughter needs more affection than she can spare her mother

Enter also a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The birthday party washes out, the gingerbread lady falls off the wagon and careens onward to her own tragic end

"He has combined an amusing comedy with the atmosphere of great sadness. His characteristic wit and humor are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of lost misfits can often be genuinely and deeply touching" ~ N.Y. Post

"Mr. Simon's play is as funny as ever the customary avalanche of hilarity, and landslide of pure unbuttoned joy" ~ N.Y. Times

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