Article: GREAT SIMON'S GHOST ROMANCE GOES BEYOND GRAVE IN UNEVEN 'ROSE AND WALSH'.(U)(Review)

Byline: Evan Henerson Theater Critic

HOW TRULY finished, do you suppose, was ``The Odd Couple'' lo those many years ago when it went into previews? What about ``Lost in Yonkers,'' an eventual Pulitzer Prize winner, or ``Brighton Beach Memoirs,'' the beginning of Neil Simon's boffo autobiographical trilogy? What must those scripts have looked like at the 11th hour?

Dogging Neil Simon, almost as consistently as his reputation for comedy, is the playwright's legendary ability to tweak, alter and even overhaul his work on its way to the stage. Here's a man who last year updated one of his most successful works for the second time!. The playwright's very ...

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