By Neil Simon
Directed by Joy Baker Dennis

September 18-21, 1997
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize fro Drama and four Tony Awards, including Best Play, Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers has been described as "laughter on the brink of tears." It is a mature Simon at his funniest.

Set in 1942 Yonkers in the two-bedroom apartment above Kurnitz's Kandy Shop, two young teenage brothers have been left in the care of their grandmother, a fearsome German-Jewish tyrant. Eddie, the boys' father, is a gentle nervous wreck. sister Gert has developed a nervous habit of inhaling while she talks, and brother Louie is a bag man for the mob with a false bravado he calls "moxie." And then there is Bella, the mildly retarted daughter who most needs the love that their mother cannot give.

Jay and Arty soon learn their own resilient techniques for surviving in this dysfunctional family and become a sort of comic Greek chorus to the drama of daily life in the Kurnitz household. It is nearly a year before they are rescued by their absent father, and in that time, they will discover, as does the audience, that of all the wounded hearts in the family, maybe Grandma's is the most wounded of all.