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A warm, funny sample of Neil
Simon at his most humane, compassionate best, California Suite is a
humorous confection divided into four vignettes. Each one-act play is set
in the same room of the glamorous Beverly Hills Hotel.
In Visitors from New York,
a magazine writer is visited by her ex-husband before going home. The
question is, with whom should their daughter spend
the next six months?
Visitors from Philadelphia concerns a wife who arrives at the hotel
suite before her husband can get rid of the drunken prostitute in his bed.
In Visitors from London a British star, accompanied by her antique
dealer husband, is on her way to the Academy Awards.
Finally, the Visitors from Chicago are two couples finishing up a
vacation they should never have shared; a broken ankle, hurled insults and
temper tantrums bring a hilarious, farcical conclusion to California Suite.
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