Plaza Suite

De: Neil Simon

Narrado por: JoBeth Williams, Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, full cast

Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza Hotel. A suburban couple takes a suite while their house is being painted, a Hollywood producer calls a childhood sweetheart for a little sexual diversion, and a mother and father fight about the best way to get their daughter, the bride, out of the bathroom and back to the wedding.

(P)1995 L.A. Theatre Works

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Another winner." (The London Standard)
"All three are remorselessly anti-romantic love stories: outrageously funny, wincingly cruel." (The London Times)

I wish I could see the original play

Would you listen to Plaza Suite (Dramatization) again? Why?

Maybe, it's worth it but know the story so well having seen the movie.

What did you like best about this story?

The comedy actually comes off better in this audio than in the movie version. You can sense Neil Simon better.

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, but this has an all star cast. You recognize each voice.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I did. It's not long at all. Like watching a movie.

Any additional comments?

Really enjoyed it.

Emotions laid bare

Neil Simon is a master at presenting realistic characters with all their flaws gloriously laid out for us to observe. Plaza Suite is so named, as the three different playlets are all set in the same suite in the famous Plaza Hotel in New York. If the walls of hotel suites could talk, stories such as these would be told. The third play in the line-up, Visitor from Forest Hills, is particularly humourous and exquisitely acted.

sublime

I laughed without stopping.
This is a masterpiece.
WONDERFUL
SUPERB.DELICIOUS.
I WILL KEEPTHIS FOREVRR
you will never regret listening to this

One location, a thousand unique stories

You know a play and its performers have done their job to perfection when they get you talking back to the characters while you're listening to the audiobook on the drive home. That's precisely what this audiobook had me doing, not because I found it rip-roaringly funny or even totally enjoyable to listen to, but absolutely engaging and engrossing in its clever and full portrayal of people and their quirks.

In these three short plays, set within a single suite of the Plaza hotel, you encounter people in a variety of circumstances and points in their lives. From a couple on their anniversary to a Hollywood mogel getting in touch with his past to the mother and father of the bride (and the bride), these plays look at life, love, hope and dreams, reality and ideals. Brilliant writing is coupled with talented and well-used voice talent, which makes this an audiobook well worth listening to.

Essential, classic

This classic dramatization is a must for Neil Simon fans. The cast is tremendous and the play is as funny in 'radio' format as it is on stage.

really boring

Would you ever listen to anything by Neil Simon again?

I forgot that I didn't really like most of Simon 's plays

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Huge waste of my money