The Theater: Tis the Season

THE SUNSHINE BOYS by NEIL SIMON

Santa Claus is just an alias for Neil Simon. Every year just before Christmas, he loads up packets of goodies and tosses two unbridled hours of laughter to Broadway audiences. Santa Simon is back again with a cripplingly funny show aptly called The Sunshine Boys.

The two boys are really old men, an ex-vaudeville duo named Lewis (Sam Levene) and Clark (Jack Albertson). Clad always in pajamas and bathrobe, Clark lives alone in one of Manhattan's rundown hotels and is sustained by TV, soup and a weekly copy of...

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