https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.33 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/212 Wed, 19 Dec 2001 03:26:19 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=212 I went to see the new Neil Simon play the other night. Oy, vhat an old-feshioned play! Even I dohn remember ven dey yoosta produce plays like dis. Dere's dis character in de show dat talks joost like dis on account he's supposed to be Jackie Mason de stend-up comic. He talks like dis all evenink. So if dis dohn mek you leff, dohn go see de show---because this is about as funny as it gets. 45 Seconds from Broadway is set at the Cafe Edison, the coffee shop in the lobby of the Edison Hotel, also known as "the Polish Continue reading]]>