He created “the odd Couple” and wanted to see the audience on the floor Laughing. The Broadway-author and multiple Tony-award winner Neil Simon, has died at the age of 91 in New York.
Neil Simon, the “king of Broadway”, was considered by many as one of the greatest American playwright of the second half of the 20th century. Century. He died at the age of 91 years in New York due to pneumonia. Simon made in the USA, as an author, with a mixture of Humor, Drama, and self-image a name.
From 1960 until the mid-1990s, a new Simon-the piece premiered on Broadway almost every year. He wrote more than 40 plays, 1967, the four ran at the same time. Among his most famous pieces of the Comedy “Plaza Suite”, “the Sunshine Boy” and “the odd Couple”. The latter was later made into a film with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon: Two middle-aged men leave their wives and find themselves in a new community – you could hardly be more different. The foul-mouthed Oscar Madison met his meticulous friend, Felix Ungar.
Simon told the “Life”Magazine once, that his overriding goal as a playwright is the entertainment. “When I was a child, I climbed on a stone ledge, to see a movie of Charlie Chaplin,” said Simon. “I laughed so much that I fell down, my head hit the floor and bleeding and laughing all the way to the doctor.” His ideal vision of a successful Comedy is an audience, the Laughter on the ground winch, some would pass out.
Simon was on 4. July, 1927 born in New York City. He was married five times, twice with the same woman. He leaves behind his wife, two daughters, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Simon won four times for the Tony Award, the Oscar of Broadway. For his play “Lost in Yonkers”, which is located in the American working class, the price he received the Pulitzer. In 1983, was named on New York’s Broadway theater building after him.
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