Neil Simon's 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers' brings comedy and some nostalgia from 1960s New York to audiences.
The Walnut Street Theatre is continuing its 214th season with Neil Simon's, 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers.'"It's a true Neil Simon comedy," she says. "The writing is really, really sharp. The jokes are really funny, but it's also very heartfelt."
The play focuses on Barney Cashman, a man in his mid-40s, who is married to his high school sweetheart.The role of Barney Cashman is played by Scott Greer.Cashman's mid-life crisis plays out over three acts. "He invites three different women over the course of like eight months up to his mother's apartment, because he knows she's going to be working," says Greer."Elaine is a smoking, drinking, wisecracking, very, very, very experienced woman," says Childs."She's very generationally different than Barney," says Bedford.Cashman then goes after Jeanette Fisher, a friend of his wife, and someone he knows quite well.
"Jeanette is a very depressed, unhappy person," says Greer. "He's not terribly successful at having an affair.""There's a lot about marriage and there's a lot about love," says Childs. "It's about people who are looking for connection."Childs says she's hoping audiences will "laugh really, really hard" at the show, but she's also hoping that "they'll find a moment of recognition with the characters.
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