Lost in Yonkers

By Neil Simon

 

August 19-21, 26-29 and September 2-4

 

When we first presented this Pulitzer Prize winning Neil Simon comedy in 1994, we held it over for a week because of sold-out houses. 

 

Many have called this play the best Neil Simon comedy ever written.  The story:  On a hot afternoon in August, 1942, two young boys are deposited to live with their stern Grandma Kurnitz and childlike Aunt Bella over the family’s candy store in Yonkers, New York. 

 

There are moments in this play when “you experience a new kind of laughter—a silent laughter that doesn’t explode into a yuk but implodes straight into your heart.”

 

Director Charita Nemec’s fine cast includes Pete Fernbaugh, Cathy Grecco, Mary Liz Meyer, John McGovern, Ben Nadler, Bob Rak and Pat Cena Samreny.