Lost in Yonkers Tickets

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About the Show:

Lost in Yonkers is a play by the great American playwright Neil Simon (The Goodbye Girl, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity). The original Broadway production opened on February 21, 1991 and played a very respectable 780 performances. The original cast starred Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, and featured Kevin Spacey as Louie (all three received Tony Awards for their performances). This coming of age story struck a chord with audiences and critics; it won the 1991 Tony Award for Best Play and it even won Simon the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Order Lost in Yonkers tickets right now to see this praiseworthy play live.

Plot Synopsis:

Young brothers Arty and Jay are being cared for by their Grandma and their Aunt Bella in a Yonker, New York apartment. Their father, Eddie, a traveling salesman, struggles to make ends meet and pay off debts accumulated since the death of his wife. The brothers must deal with the intimidating nature of their stern immigrant grandmother, who traumatized her own children in their childhoods, and their desperate aunt, who, though sweet, is a bit slow and desperate to get married and start a family of her own away from her mother. The boys' uncle Louie has grown up to be a rough hoodlum running from the law and their aunt Gert is revealed to have a breathing problem worsened by the anxiety she has held with her for years. In the end, a cataclysmic confrontation results in a distressful and permanent change in the dynamics of this disturbed family. Order Lost in Yonkers tickets to follow the whole story.

Awards:

• 1991 Tony Awards: 4 nominations, 1 win
• 1991 Drama Desk Award for Best Play
• 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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