Characters:
Corie Bratter | Recently married to Paul, still trying to figure out married life together |
Paul Bratter | Recently married to Corie, breadwinner, doesn’t really like the apartment or Velasco or Corie’s mother, rising young attorney |
Mrs. Banks | Corie’s mother who likes the apartment, living vicariously through Corie, |
Victor Velasco | Crazy upstairs neighbor that lives in the attic and the only way to get there is by climbing out the window |
Telephone Repair Man | Struggles to get up all the steps of the apartment building to Corie & Paul’s room |
Delivery Man | Struggles to get up all the steps of the apartment building to Corie & Paul’s room |
Time: | Present |
Setting: | NY |
Mode: | Comedy |
Form: | Modernism |
Themes: - Modern: fix it fast, divorce, impressionism, capturing what you see - Americana: newlywed, rising young attorney, making life work, character driven, youth escaping, finding belonging |
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Quotes:
Mother | I feel like we’ve died and gone to heaven… Only we had to climb up |
Paul | And I loved you, Corie, even when I didn’t like you, I loved you |
Corie | There are watchers in this world and there are doers. And the watchers sit around watching the doers do. Well, tonight you watched and I did. |
Velasco (talking for Mother) | The trip to Staten Island, the strange food, the drinks, being carried up to my apartment like that and you didn’t say one word about it |
Paul | If our marriage hinges on breathing fish balls and poofla poo pies, its not worth saving… I am now going to crawl into our tiny, little single bed. If you care to join me, we will be sleeping from left to right tonight |
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Very funny and very easy to read. Velasco is similar to the neighbor in Home Improvement Newlyweds trying to figure out married life tighter Mother parallel Velasco in opposites Velasco disrupts the norm |
Playwright:
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Other Work:
1961 | Come Blow Your Horn |
1962 | Little Me |
1963 | Come Blow Your Horn- screenplay |
1965 | The Odd Couple |
1966 | Sweet Charity |
1966 | The Star Spangled Girl |
1966 | After the Fox- screenplay |
1967 | Barefoot in the Park- screenplay |
1968 | Plaza Suite |
1968 | Promises, Promises |
1968 | The Odd Couple- screenplay |
1969 | The Last of the Red Hot Lovers |
1969 | Sweet Charity- screenplay |
1970 | The Gingerbread Lady |
1970 | The Out-of-Towners- screenplay |
1971 | The Prisoner of Second Avenue |
1971 | Plaza Suite- screenplay |
1972 | The Sunshine Boys |
1972 | The Last of the Red Hot Lovers- screenplay |
1972 | The Heartbreak Kid-screenplay |
1973 | The Good Doctor |
1974 | God’s Favorite |
1975 | The Prisoner of Second Avenue- screenplay |
1975 | The Sunshine Boys- screenplay |
1976 | California Suite |
1976 | Murder by Death- screenplay |
1977 | Chapter Two |
1977 | The Goodbye Girl- screenplay |
1978 | The Cheap Detective- screenplay |
1978 | California Suite- screenplay |
1978 | The Good Doctor- screenplay |
1979 | They’re Playing Our Song |
1979 | Chapter Two- screenplay |
1980 | I Ought to Be in Pictures |
1980 | Seems Like Old Times- screenplay |
1981 | Fools |
1981 | Only When I laugh- screenplay |
1982 | I Ought to Be in Pictures- screenplay |
1983 | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
1983 | Max Dugan Returns- screenplay |
1984 | The Lonely Guy- screenplay |
1985 | Biloxi Blues |
1985 | The Slugger’s Wife- screenplay |
1986 | The Female Odd Couple |
1986 | Brighton Bean Memoirs- screenplay |
1986 | Broadway Bound |
1987 | Plaza Suite- screenplay |
1988 | Rumors |
1988 | Biloxi Blues- screenplay |
1991 | Lost in Yonkers |
1991 | The Marrying Man- screenplay |
1992 | Jake’s Women |
1993 | The Goodbye Girl |
1993 | Lost in Yonkers- screenplay |
1993 | Laughter on the 23rd Floor |
1995 | London Suite |
1995 | The Sunshine Boys- screenplay |
1996 | Jake’s Women- screenplay |
1997 | Proposals |
1998 | The Odd Couple II- screenplay |
2000 | The Dinner Party |
2001 | 45 Seconds from Broadway |
2001 | Laughter on the 23rd Floor- screenplay |
2003 | Rose’s Dilemma |
2004 | Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple |
2004 | The Goodbye Girl- screenplay |
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