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Nov 02, 2009

What’s Old is New Again: Theater J’s Lost in Yonkers

Tana Hicken and Holly Twyford in Theater J’s “Lost in Yonkers” Despite its World War II period setting and the old-fashioned feel of its Broadway by way of the Catskills laughs, Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers feels remarkably of the moment. A father is driven to bankruptcy trying to take care of his dying wife. In tough economic times, he joins the war effort to get himself out of debt, leaving his two teenage…

 
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