Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The (1969), a comedy by Neil Simon. [Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 706 perf.] Barney Cashman ( James Coco), the owner of a fish restaurant, is middle‐aged, overweight, married, and anxious to have one last fling. Knowing that his mother's apartment is empty on certain days, three times he lures a totally different type of woman there and attempts to seduce her. He bungles every attempt. In desperation he asks up the only other woman he can think of: his wife, Thelma. But apparently even she is not too eager to accept his invitation. One of Simon's many gag‐filled yet probing comedies, it was assessed by Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Post as “delightfully hilarious and witty, as well as filled with the wisdom about human nature characteristic of all his work.”

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