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Join Scottsdale Prep Theatre Arts for their presentation of Neil Simon
 Two separate casts, in two separate shows, sharing a stage, and a love for one of America's most prolific Playwrights.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Friday March 29th at 7pm
Saturday March 30th at 2pm
Directed by: Ms. Baroff
Set in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York in September 1937 during The Great Depression, this coming-of-age comedy focuses on Eugene Morris Jerome, a Polish-Jewish American teenager who experiences a search for identity as he tries to deal with his family, including his older brother Stanley, his parents Kate and Jack, Kate's sister Blanche, and her two daughters, Nora and Laurie, who come to live there after their father's death.
The Odd Couple (Female Version)
Thursday March 28th at 7pm
Saturday March 30th at 7pm
Directed by: Mrs. Clement
In 1985, Neil Simon revised The Odd Couple for a female cast. Florence Ungar, a neurotic, neat freak divorces her husband and moves in with her friend Olive Madison, a slovenly news reporter. The poker game beccomes Trivial Pursuit with their friends becoming the girlfriends: Mickey, Sylvie, Vera, and Renee. The Pigeon sisters become the Costazuela brothers, Manolo and Jesus.
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Google recently studied the skill sets of their top employees. As reported in the Washington Post, "The top seven characteristics of success at Google are human skills, not technical mastery. "Communicating and listening well, having empathy...being a good critical thinker and problem solver" are the attributes of Google's best employees. The article continues, "what matters now is not the skills you have but how you think." As counterintuitive as it might sound, the tech age is reminding educators the liberal arts are more important than ever because they foster well-rounded, deep thinking individuals who more easily adapt to and make sense of the ever changing world.
