The Heights Players celebrate family love and mishegoss this January
‘Broadway Bound’ Performances Through Jan. 19 in Brooklyn Heights
Family is more than blood. It is love, caring, shared values and sometimes, putting the needs of others before yourself. This describes the Jerome family of Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound,” now being performed by The Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights. “Broadway Bound” is the last installment in Simon’s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, which includes “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “Biloxi Blues,” and is a deeply moving account of courage and wisdom, which happens to be wickedly funny.
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, “Broadway Bound” harkens back to 1949 in Brighton Beach. A family home familiar to many is the setting as brothers Eugene and Stanley are trying to live the dream of becoming professional comedy writers. Not an easy undertaking in anyone’s book, but for Eugene and Stanly it becomes complicated as they learn of family troubles. A moving story of courage, wisdom and yet humor, “Broadway Bound” is a show to warm up even the coldest of Januarys. The New York Times said the play “contains some of the author’s most accomplished writing.” And the New York Daily News stated the show was “expectedly funny and unexpectedly moving.”