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The Gingerbread Lady by Neil Simon
3 Men, 3 Women Author of: See the article on Neil Simon
Maureen Stapleton played the Broadway part of a popular singer who has gone to pot with booze and sex. We meet her at the end of a ten week drying our period at a sanitarium, when her friend, her daughter, and an actor try to help her adjust to sobriety.
But all 3 have the opposite effect on her. The friend is so constantly vain she loses her husband; the actor, a homosexual, is also doomed, and indeed loses his part 3 days before an opening; and the daughter needs more affection than she can spare her mother.
The birthday party washes out, the Gingerbread Lady falls off the wagon and careens onward to her own tragic end.
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