Lost in Yonkers

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Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play in 1991. The play is part of Simon's autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound. Simon's plays often focus on the everyday lives and domestic challenges of ordinary middle-class people.12

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Neil Simon
Subsequent plays included Rumors (1988); Lost in Yonkers (1991; film 1993), which won both a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play; and The Dinner Party (2000).
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Subsequent plays included Rumors (1988); Lost in Yonkers (1991; film 1993), which won both a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play; and The Dinner Party (2000).
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Kevin Spacey
Se7en, L.A. Confidential, and American Beauty
…Louie in Neil Simon’s hit Lost in Yonkers. Following his theatrical success, he earned praise for his work in such films as Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Swimming with Sharks (1994), and Se7en (1995). His performance in The Usual Suspects (1995) as a double-talking con man earned him an Academy Award…
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…Louie in Neil Simon’s hit Lost in Yonkers. Following his theatrical success, he earned praise for his work in such films as Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Swimming with Sharks (1994), and Se7en (1995). His performance in The Usual Suspects (1995) as a double-talking con man earned him an Academy Award…
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Irene Worth
…Grandma Kurnitz in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers (1991). She was awarded another Tony for this role, which she repeated in the film adaptation two years later.
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…Grandma Kurnitz in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers (1991). She was awarded another Tony for this role, which she repeated in the film adaptation two years later.
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