[freedumb2003]

>>Among the greats should be listed “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”, the only one of his plays I saw on Broadway.<<

I played Mel in our HS version of it. I hear tell I was not too bad.

RIP to a great playwright.

[DeFault User]

Mel is a great role. When I saw it, Jack Lemmon had just left the cast, September of ‘73. :(

[Fightin Whitey]

I played Mel in our HS version of it. I hear tell I was not too bad.

To paraphrase Charles Barkley, "You were relatively not too bad. All your relatives thought you were not too bad."

lol

[Albion Wilde]

>>Among the greats should be listed “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”, the only one of his plays I saw on Broadway.<<

I saw his "Come Blow Your Horn" on the pre-Broadway run in Washington DC. Hilarious. I still remember one of the scenes vividly 55 years later. The protagonist's smothering mother was martyring herself about something and said, "All right then, I'm leaving — dragging my fur coat behind me," and actually dragged a beautiful full-length fur coat across the stage.