The following is a link to an interview of Neil Simon speaking on the third act.
Mike Wood interviewed him on January 30, 1997.
If you take anything from short clip, I hope you recognize the amount of thinking that went into your lines! Some came easier than others, but each one had thought put into it.
As we rehearse, try to remember this when you are struggling to understand why you are saying something at a particular time.
Thank you to Caleb for sending this link our way!
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4:55: And so I walked out dejected again realizing how difficult this playwrighting business is, cause you think you have it, and like quicksilver it's gone.
5:25: ...we put it in that night and we got huge laughs, even when the lines weren't that funny, cause the audience is now enjoying the sense of the comedy, the progression of the play, the characters coming into their own and learning something about theirselves...
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