On Broadway, he appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, Kander & Ebb's The Rink, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, Accomplice, and Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, for which he garnered the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

In 1991, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of " Uncle Louie " in Neil Simon's Broadway hit Lost in Yonkers.

In a play within a play in Neil Simon's 1977 film The Goodbye Girl, Richard Dreyfuss reluctantly portrays Richard as overtly homosexual at the insistence of an avant-garde director.

Murder by Death is Neil Simon's spoof of many of the best-known whodunit sleuths.

The most commercially successful show in which he worked was Neil Simon's Plaza Suite ( 1968 ).

" A famous anecdote relates that one of his stage costars, Maureen Stapleton, told the director of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, " I don't know what to do — I'm scared of him.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s she replaced other actresses in Don't Drink the Water ( as Marion Hollander ) and in Neil Simon's Plaza Suite ; and played Mollie Malloy in two revival runs of The Front Page.

Christopher has also remained active in the theater, including a tour of the U. S. in the mid-90s with Jamie Farr doing Neil Simon's The Odd Couple on stage.

" Mount Holyoke is mentioned frequently in Neil Simon's play, Broadway Bound.

Wallace's work onstage includes An Almost Perfect Person in Los Angeles, which she also produced, a tour of the female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, and productions of Same Time Next Year, Twigs, It Had to Be You, Supporting Cast, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Plaza Suite, Gypsy, Promises, Promises, Born Yesterday, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Steel Magnolias and Last of the Red Hot Lovers – in which she played all three roles at various times.

* Biloxi is the setting of Neil Simon's play and film Biloxi Blues, which starred Mathew Broderick.

* Neil Simon's 1976 movie Murder by Death parodied Nick and Nora as Dick and Dora Charleston, with their dog Myron.

She next starred in the musical adaptation of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl with music by Marvin Hamlisch ( 1993 ).

In 1984, he appeared in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park at the Apollo Theatre alongside his then wife, Sandra Dickinson.

" Inspired by Neil Simon's 1972 Broadway play The Sunshine Boys, the film became a moderate success at the box office for a worldwide total of almost 9 million.

" Additionally, the play opened after all of the award deadlines, so it was not eligible until the following year, triumphing over Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, Murray Schisgal's Luv and Edward Albee's Tiny Alice for the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Her stage credits include Norman Mailer's " The Deer Park ", Israel Horovitz's " The Indian Wants the Bronx ", Neil Simon's " The Good Doctor " and " King Richard III " at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

His 1980s roles included Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times ( opposite Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn ) and 1988's well-reviewed comedy Midnight Run, a buddy movie co-starring Robert De Niro.

Only When I Laugh is a 1981 film based on Neil Simon's play The Gingerbread Lady.

He also appeared as Felix Unger in a stage version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple with Art Carney as Oscar Madison.

This was followed by Wind in the Willows as Mr. Toad, Some Americans Abroad at Lincoln Center, and the national tour of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound.

In 1993, he portrayed Sid Caesar-like Max Prince in Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, inspired by Simon's early career writing sketches for Your Show of Shows.

Through the end of June 2009, Metcalf starred with French Stewart in Justin Tanner's play, Voice Lessons, in Hollywood before beginning rehearsals to play Kate Jerome in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, directed by David Cromer.

In 1984, she made her theatrical debut on Broadway in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and afterward, worked in a number of ensemble companies, including The New York Shakespeare Festival and the Steppenwolf Theater.

Matt Sherrod, Dublin, 2007. In 2006 Neil Finn asked Nick Seymour to play bass on his third solo album.

Neil first saw Tim play with Split Enz in 1972, he said, " That performance and those first songs made a lasting impression on me.

She would play piano at family parties and encourage Neil and Tim to accompany her.

She appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but quit the production after receiving a critical letter from Simon instructing her to " learn your lines or get out of my play ".

In 1965, however, a plum comedy role came Matthau's way when Neil Simon cast him in the hit play The Odd Couple playing the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison opposite Art Carney as Felix Unger.

The book was also produced as a play by Jason Carr and Gary Yershon, mounted at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003, directed by Jeremy Sams, starring Louise Gold, Joe McGann, Katherine O ' Shea, and Neil McDermott.

In 2002, he starred in Neil LaBute's play The Mercy Seat along with Sigourney Weaver on Off-Broadway that was critically and commercially very successful.

" Here, Sharon began to play the bass guitar, while Neil sat behind the drum set, despite the fact that neither had played either instrument before.

Neil commented that " We found ourselves locking into these grooves which were incredibly fun to play ... We naturally gravitated towards being ' funky '," drawing influence from South Bronx band ESG.

In April 2012, DeVito made his West End acting debut in a revival of the Neil Simon play The Sunshine Boys-alongside Olivier Award-winning actor Richard Griffiths.

* The main character of Neil LaBute's play Wrecks is originally from Coeur d ' Alene.

At the time when he started learning drums, he also learned how to play guitar, but growing up with a stepfather ( Neil ) who played the drums, he took a deeper passion with the drums.

The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway in 1972 and later adapted for film and television.

In the 2001 comedy film Saving Silverman, the main characters play in a Neil Diamond cover band, and Diamond made an extended cameo appearance as himself.

His Broadway credits also included the 1967 Neil Simon comedy The Star-Spangled Girl, the Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow ( 1960 ), for which he was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Bernard Slade's 1979 play Romantic Comedy opposite Mia Farrow.

The comic play, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, by Neil Simon included thinly disguised versions of Sid Caesar and his staff, as did The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was created by Brooks ' friend and colleague, Carl Reiner ( who would later star in Van Dyke's show as Alan Brady ).

* In Neil Gaiman's graphic novel The Sandman: Dream Country, Will Kempe is depicted in the issue A Midsummer Night's Dream, a short story about Shakespeare's first performance of the play.

Your Show of Shows also inspired the 1982 film My Favorite Year, produced by Mel Brooks, and the play Laughter on the 23rd Floor written by Neil Simon.

* Fools ( play ), a 1981 play by Neil Simon