Come Blow Your Horn

For the film adaptation, see Come Blow Your Horn (film).

Come Blow Your Horn
Written by	Neil Simon
Date premiered	February 22, 1961
Place premiered	Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy
IBDB profile

Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first play, which premiered in the United States in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

Character

• Alan Baker
• Peggy Evans
• Buddy Baker
• Mr. (Father) Baker
• Connie
• Mrs. (Mother) Baker

Act summaries

Time: The Present
Place: Alan's Apartment in the East Sixties, New York City

Act 1: Six O'clock in the evening, early fall

Act 2: Immediately After

Act 3 Late Afternoon, Three weeks later

Summary

The play tells the story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle. At the beginning of the story, Buddy is a 21-year-old virgin and his older brother Alan is a ladies' man. But as the play progresses Alan discovers real feelings for one of the many women with whom he is currently sleeping and when she elects to leave him, he falls apart in response. This juxtaposes Alan's hunger for companionship with Buddy's metamorphosis into a ladies' man himself. The playwright points out the fundamental spiritual and emotional emptiness of the playboy lifestyle for which the younger sibling desperately yearns.

Film adaptation

The play was made into a film in 1963.

External links

• Come Blow Your Horn at The Internet Broadway Database