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  ALAN DALE | What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s
In Lost in Yonkers Simon has elaborated the intriguingly unpleasant elements of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound --the mother’s almost supernatural detection of a purloined cookie in the former, for instance--into a family power struggle at once claustrophobic and grand, familiar and yet with a stylized literary compression you wouldn’t expect from him.
In Lost in Yonkers Simon may think Momma is a round character because the exposition explains her ungivingness, but for me she works because of the way Simon has exaggerated her in fairy-tale terms, an effect enhanced by the movie’s director, Martha Coolidge.
Thus, Lost in Yonkers has a lot in common with the 1927 Al Jolson movie version of The Jazz Singer, which melodramatizes the transition in values from the older to the younger generation, represented by the Orthodox cantor-father who disowns the son who’d rather sing jazz in nightclubs.
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 Amazon.com: Lost in Yonkers (Drama, Plume): Books: Neil Simon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lost in Yonkers (Drama, Plume) by Neil Simon
Lost in Yonkers is about fear in the family, the sufferings that family's can inflict upon one another and ultimately redemption through that suffering.
Lost in Yonkers is about two boys, Jay and Arty go and live with their cane-hitting, grouchy old grandmother.
www.amazon.com /Yonkers-Drama-Plume-Neil-Simon/dp/0452268834   (2226 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon that opened on Broadway in 1991.
An immense critical success, Lost in Yonkers was the first of Simon's plays to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Set during World War II, the story is about two young brothers, Jay and Arty, who are left by their desperate father in Yonkers, New York so that he can travel the country in order to pay off debts he owns.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lost_in_Yonkers   (329 words)

  
 Roadside's LOST IN YONKERS
Lost in Yonkers opened on Broadway in February 1991.
The varied characters of Lost in Yonkers exhibit various forms of survival techniques: Uncle Louie's "moxie," the boys' refuge in a mixture of one-liners and late-night forays to the candy store for ice cream, and Bella's constant search for unconditional love and acceptance.
At the core of it, Lost in Yonkers is a play about finding one's way through the tangled webs of familial relationships and attempting to survive life without losing the sense of self.
www.roadsidetheater.com /yonkers.htm   (215 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers Summary & Essays - Neil Simon
Lost in Yonkers Summary & Essays - Neil Simon
Lost in Yonkers was a critical and popular success and led to a film adaptation in 1993.
Lost in Yonkers is available in a paperback version from Plume, which was published in 1993.
www.enotes.com /lost-yonkers   (336 words)

  
 Nevada Events - Review
Under the superb direction of Mathew Mahan, who molds an excellent cast into a poetic presentation of Neil Simon's "Lost In Yonkers," the Reno Little Theater is back in stride as a community theater worth experiencing from both sides of the footlights.
RLT's "Lost in Yonkers" opened last Friday (4/6/2001) at the company's temporary home, the lodge hall of the Reno Elk's Club.
With "Lost In Yonkers" Simon isn't using jokes to paper over unhappy memories.
www.nevada-events.net /cgi-bin/cal_manager2/review174.shtml   (650 words)

  
 City Pages - Lost in Yonkers
Yonkers remembers his instrument serving a secondary purpose during some wild shows that he played with the Michael Yonkers Band in the mid-Sixties, when the group's decision to dump surf guitar for screaming rock 'n' roll was being poorly received by suburban listeners.
Yonkers suspects that Steinberg "might have misrepresented the truth a bit," as the intermediary between the band and the record company.
Yonkers had planned to issue the recordings on CD himself, but Simonson's offer of a vinyl-only release appealed to the musician's love of retro tech, clinching the deal.
www.citypages.com /databank/23/1112/article10262.asp   (3062 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers - Elmer Bernstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Getting lost in Yonkers seems like a terrible careless thing to do and on my visit to this particular part of New York with Mr Southall resulted in very little getting lost, remarkable for a pair so inept at navigation as we.
Lost in Yonkers was perhaps more of a comedy-drama than an out and out comedy and so at least Bernstein had some dramatic substance to get his teeth into.
While Lost in Yonkers is not by no means the best entry in this area of Bernstein's output, it is certainly a cut above younger composers writing for similar films, yet again proving how adept he is with smaller scale efforts.
www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/lostinyonkers.htm   (392 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
"Lost in Yonkers," which was performed this weekend by the Hillel Theater Group (HTG), is an atypical Neil Simon play.
The time span for "Lost in Yonkers" is approximately 10 months between the years 1942 and 1943.
Under the direction of Dmitry Toryanovsky '98, Hillel's production of "Lost in Yonkers" effectively showed the depths of one family's despair, as well as the early stages of their recovery during World War II.
members.aol.com /harx1/lost.html   (650 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Lost In Yonkers
Lost in Yonkers, based on the award winning Broadway play, teeters on the edge of saccharine sweetness without ever going too far.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, Lost in Yonkers is yet another example of a fine catalog title dumped onto DVD without any extra attention.
Finally, only theatrical trailers are to be found in the extras column—Lost in Yonkers, A League of Their Own, and A Soldier's Story—all World War II period films, so at least there is a theme.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/lostinyonkers.php   (982 words)

  
 LOST IN YONKERS - June 30 - July 17
Often called Neil Simon’s best play, Lost in Yonkers is set in Yonkers, New York in 1942 at the home of the dysfunctional Kurnitz Family.
Winner of 4 1991 Tony Awards including Best Play, Lost in Yonkers is widely regarded as one of the best written plays in the last 25 years.
Lost in Yonkers was the 6th Neil Simon play produced by the Blowing Rock Stage Company.
www.blowingrockstage.com /LostInYonkers.htm   (165 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pulitzer prize winner by America's greatest comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942.
Gradually the mood deepens and darkens as the boys endure life with a family of wacky, emotionally crippled people.
While the children are temporarily exiled in Yonkers, the rest of their sad, funny family is truly lost.
www.mcn.org /1/mtc/plays/yonkers.html   (109 words)

  
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Lost in Yonkers summary, Lost in Yonkers study guide, chapter summaries...
Lost in Yonkers is almost half over by the time Louie makes his first appearance he's gone before the final quarter.
Review: Lost In Yonkers Lost In Yonkers A Film by James Berardinelli United States, 1993 U. His is felt both in his angry outbursts and his sudden gales of biting laughter.
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 Kalilily Time: Lost in Yonkers
That's where my mom's thoughts are these days -- lost in Yonkers, which is where she lived most of her life and where I grew up.
She got a call yesterday that one of my aunts is in the hospital dying of cancer.
A week from today I'll be lost at the Yonkers border (that's moving day)...
www.kalilily.net /weblog/04/04/20/215952.html   (452 words)

  
 GALVESTON.COM: Lost in Yonkers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lost in Yonkers is Neil Simon at his best - riding the line between comedy and drama.
When Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991 it marked a milestone in a career of milestones.
Presented by the Montana Repertory Theatre, Lost in Yonkers is another in a long line of American Stage classics brought to life with a new vitality and vision.
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 Lost in Yonkers (1993)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Plot Outline: In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
It is highly unlikely that a house in Yonkers would have had two as we see when the gangsters get out of their car and walk to the store as Bella is making her "Johnny" announcement.
After a triumphant run on Broadway, the film adaptation of "Lost In Yonkers" was completely snubbed at all of the major film awards ceremonies.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0107443   (408 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize fro Drama and four Tony Awards, including Best Play, Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers has been described as "laughter on the brink of tears." It is a mature Simon at his funniest.
Set in 1942 Yonkers in the two-bedroom apartment above Kurnitz's Kandy Shop, two young teenage brothers have been left in the care of their grandmother, a fearsome German-Jewish tyrant.
It is nearly a year before they are rescued by their absent father, and in that time, they will discover, as does the audience, that of all the wounded hearts in the family, maybe Grandma's is the most wounded of all.
www.a2ct.org /archives/show/yonkers.htm   (197 words)

  
 Montana Rep: Lost in Yonkers
Whether through laughter or through his investigation into the heart of family, it is Simon's understanding, wisdom, and good humor that will always mark him as a master playwright.
Lost in Yonkers is, I feel, the natural culmination of the investigation begun with the trilogy.
Listen to a 30-second audio spot for Lost in Yonkers.
www.montanarep.org /yonkers.html   (357 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers Study Guide by Neil Simon: Themes
Everybody in the play is trying hard to survive, each in his or her own way.
Grandma Kurnitz is the character in the play that influences all of the other characters and forces them to adopt their survival tactics.
When Grandma Kurnitz lost two of her children, she closed off the rest of her family emotionally—her way of coping with the loss and surviving.
www.bookrags.com /studyguide-lostyonkers/themes.html   (226 words)

  
 Lost in Yonkers Summary
Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon that was first published in 1991.
Get the complete Lost in Yonkers Summary Pack, which includes everything on this page.
Lost in Yonkers: Image used on the Playbill for Lost in Yonkers
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 Register-Mail.com - Galesburg Register-Mail Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Vera Fornander, left, playing grandma in Lost in Younkers, talks to Eddy while Josh Damewood, playing Jay, and Evan Green, playing Arty stand in the background during rehearsal Tuesday night.
"Lost in Yonkers" is the story of a Jewish family in 1942, and the changes two young boys go through after being sent to live with their stern German grandmother for a year.
Their father went into debt caring for his dying wife, and takes a job far from home selling scrap iron to build ships in order to repay his debt to a loan shark.
www.register-mail.com /stories/100605/FEA_B7MLEN5L.GID.shtml   (589 words)

  
 Lost In Yonkers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The play originated with another play that was written a few years before Lost In Yonkers.
It was only 35 pages and it wasn't fulfilling everything he wanted to do, so he put it aside and worked on a few other things.
Things hadn't gone well with those other projects, when Simon suddenly realized exactly how to do Lost In Yonkers and he sat down and wrote it in just 3 months.
www.drivingmrspacey.com /LostInYonkers.htm   (435 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lost in Yonkers: Video: Richard Dreyfuss,Mercedes Ruehl,Irene Worth,Brad Stoll,Mike Damus,David ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Neil Simon's autobiographical play (Lost in Yonkers, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Blioxi Blues, etc.) are wonderfully witty and tragic at times.
Lost in Yonkers tells the story of two young brothers left with their loony aunt and hardened grandmother for 10 months while their father is making the money to repay a debt during WWII.
It is highly unlikely that a house in Yonkers would hav...
www.amazon.com /Lost-Yonkers-Martha-Coolidge/dp/630291695X   (1362 words)

  
 Parent Previews: Lost In Yonkers
Yonkers quietly examines the many relationships within a family, providing moments of comedy and enlightenment.
The story is about two boys -- Jay (Brad Stoll) and Arty (Mike Darmus) who are left to stay with Grandma (Irene Worth) while dad goes to work for eight months hoping to repay a loan shark from whom he borrowed money to cover his late wife's medical bills.
Heavy on dialogue, the youngest viewers are likely to get lost in Yonkers, but the 12 and over age group may find Jay and Arty's predicament humorous.
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 Lost In Yonkers Tickets - Buy Lost In Yonkers Tickets Online from Top Notch Seats (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
View our complete Lost In Yonkers play schedule to find the venue and date you’d like to attend.
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 Lost In Yonkers (Wide Screen) from Empire Film Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The effect of the old woman's tyranny over two generations of offspring becomes evident as she coldheartedly attempts to control not only their lives but also that of her mentally challenged middle-aged daughter, Bella (Mercedes Ruehl), who desperately yearns for love and independence.
The boys are forced to live by their stern grandmother's rules until their gangster uncle, Louie (Richard Dreyfuss), comes to town one night and goes into hiding in the family home.
Uncle Louie ends up helping both the boys and Bella understand their aging grandmother and realize the importance of acceptance and love, despite the hardship of life in Yonkers.
www.empirefilmstore.com /products/dvd/70309/Lost-In-Yonkers   (364 words)

  
 Lost In Yonkers - Movie Info - Moviefone
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 Proctor Academy
Lost In Yonkers was published in 1991, at the time of the Gulf War, and is set in 1942, during World War II.
Eddie, a widower, has to abandon two beloved sons to his troubled mother in order to resolve debt during wartime.
The command performance: Lizzie Carty as the disgruntled grandmother Kurnitz, who has lost everything, including the ability to love.
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 Lost in Yonkers DVD prices at Smarter.com
Filled with infectious laughter and genuine tears, Neil Simon's LOST IN YONKERS is the story of an eccentric New York family whose crimes, dreams, and memories collide one fateful summer.
In 1942, Eddie (Jack Laufer), a desperate widower on the run from loan sharks, leaves his two adolescent sons in his boyhood home in Yonkers, New York, to be raised by their tyrannical grandmother (Irene Worth) and their sweet, but naive Aunt Bella (Mercedes Ruehl), who yearns for independence from her stoic and coldhearted mother.
The boys (Brad Stoll and Mike Damus) struggle to cope with their new surroundings while they learn about the hardships of life and love.
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