The Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Theatre Palisades
941 Temescal Cyn Rd. Pacific Palisades

The Prisoner of Second Avenue is poignant comedy by the incomparable Neil Simon. Mel Edison is a well-paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm, which has suddenly hit the skids, and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment being paper-thin (allowing him a constant ear-full of his neighbor's private lives), things can't seem to get any worse...Then he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do: he has a nervous break-down. And it's the best thing that ever happened to him...

Thru - May 1, 2022