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We’re excited to open Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play Lost In Yonkers in VK Garage Theater beginning Friday night at 7:30.
Neil Simon was one of the most prolific playwrights in Broadway history, with mega-hits like Chapter Two, The Odd Couple and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Among his more than 30 plays – plus 30 more screenplays – Lost in Yonkers was the most awarded, earning four Tony awards and four Drama Desk awards, including “Best Play” in both areas, plus the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991.
The play, which the New York Post called “the best Simon ever wrote,” combines Simon’s famous wit with highly dramatic moments to beautifully capture the humor, conflict and heartbreak of a Jewish immigrant family living in Yonkers, New York, in 1942.
The cast features Bella Richards and Marcus Anderson as “Arty” and “Jay,” the two young sons of “Eddie,” played by J.D. Cole, who are forced to spend a year living with their hard-hearted grandmother in Yonkers so Eddie can work to pay off the debt he incurred tending to their dying mother.
Louise Vermillion plays “Grandma Kurnitz,” whose difficult life has made her far too hard on her children. In addition to Eddie, there is “Louie,” played by Jeff Jeffers, a small-time hoodlum; “Gertrude,” played by Terri Conatore, a neurotic housewife; and “Bella,” the youngest.
Played by Rebekah Remlinger, “Bella” is the focus of the story. Her difficult birth left her with diminished intellect, but her strong desire to find love and life outside of the tiny Yonkers apartment leads her to forge a new relationship with the mother who has treated her like a child for too long.
Lost in Yonkers will be presented in the VK Garage Theater from March 21 through April 6, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, and Sunday, March 30 and April 6, at 2:30.
Tickets are $24 for general admission. You can reserve your seats HERE. |
