Brighton Beach Memoirs

…in the Neil Simon play Brighton Beach Memoirs, for which he won a Tony for best featured actor in a play. Broderick’s success that year, however, was tempered by his father’s death of cancer at age 55. Broderick told The New York Times in 1983 that “he never got to…

…of autobiographical plays consisting of Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983; film 1986); Biloxi Blues (1985; film 1988), which was awarded the Tony for best play; and Broadway Bound (1986; television movie 1992). Subsequent plays included Rumors (1988); Lost in Yonkers (1991;