Come Blow Your Horn

Synopsis

Harry Baker should be a happy man, but his sons are a daily trial. Alan is a playboy with a penchant for beautiful girls and now Buddy, formerly so timid and obedient, has joined his brother in dissipation, unsuccessfully experimenting with the fair sex while his parents become more mystified and irate. Alan suddenly redeems himself by settling down, and Buddy, having learned how to handle women, determines to take over Alan's role as the family playboy.

Our Review:

24 May 2005

Many people think of Neil Simon as being the master of the mid life crisis comedy due to his huge success with The Odd Couple. But Come Blow Your Horn which launched Simon's career in 1961 is a play about youth and young love in New York.

The setting is the Big Apple in the 1960's. Life is booming and the city that never sleeps offers the fabulous Baker brothers a cool high life. Alan (Jamie Glover) is the older, more worldly wise, brother who knows how to 'play' women and fool his father. Buddy (Andrew Langtree) is younger, shyer and less streetwise. Both of them walk out of the family's waxed fruit business which leaves Papa Baker (Malcolm Rennie) incensed as they have turned into the "bums" that he has always despised.

Meanwhile Connie (Sarah-Louise Young), Alan's on-off girlfriend is falling in love with him and he cannot seem to resist her charms. This will please Mama Baker (Amanda Boxer) who is on standby t...

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212.57.228.74) - 2 June 2005:

Funny, fast and fantastic! Really well acted, brilliant set and a great soundtrack. in reponse to 'a theatre goer in despair' - are you on glue?...

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