Biloxi Blues
by Neil Simon

Biloxi Blues Book Cover
Biloxi Blues Cover

Awards & Recognition

Tony Award

Winner - 1985 Tony Award for Best Play

Synopsis

Full Length, Comic Drama / Casting: 6m, 2f / Scenery: Various sets Tony Award Best Play 1985 The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound.

When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn.

Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L' along with some harsher lessons, while station

Press Reviews

"A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth."

— New York Magazine

Characters

Character
Joseph Wykowski
Don Carney
Eugene Morris Jerome
Arnold Epstein
Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey
James Hennesey
Rowena
Daisy Hannigan
Roy Selridge

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Biloxi Blues Monologue

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1986
Binding Paperback
Pages 104
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573690402
ISBN-10 0573690405
LCCN 87144980
LCC PS3537.I663 B55 1986b
DCC 812/.54

Biloxi Blues is a American comedy play written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French in New York (1986).

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