Come Blow Your Horn is Neil Simon's first play, which premiered on Broadway in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Simon rewrote the script more than two dozen times over several years, resulting in a hit premiere that allowed Simon to leave his full-time television writing career to write stage and film scripts.[1]
The play tells the story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle. Buddy is a 21-year-old virgin and his older brother Alan is a ladies' man. Alan lives in an apartment in the East Sixties, New York City.
As the play progresses, Alan discovers feelings for one of the many women with whom he is sleeping, and when she leaves him, he falls apart. This juxtaposes Alan's hunger for companionship with Buddy's metamorphosis into a ladies' man. The playwright points out the fundamental spiritual and emotional emptiness of the playboy lifestyle for which the younger sibling desperately yearns.
Simon modeled the on-stage parents on his mother and father.[10]
Receptionedit
Howard Taubman, in his review for The New York Times, wrote that the play was "smoothly plotted and deftly written...Mr. Simon has served up a multitude of sprightly lines. Best of all, he has provided some explosively hilarious moments rooted in character." [11]
Referencesedit
^Considine, Basil (3 October 2017). "FEATURE: On Neil Simon's First Play, Come Blow Your Horn". Twin Cities Arts Reader. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
^Come Blow Your Horn playbillvault.com, accessed April 13, 2012
^Simon, Neil.Script Come Blow Your Horn (1961), (books.google.com), Samuel French, Inc., ISBN0-573-60713-3, pp. 1-3
^Considine, Basil (3 October 2017). "FEATURE: On Neil Simon's First Play, Come Blow Your Horn". Twin Cities Arts Reader. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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