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Sarah Junette Dahmen plays Norma Hubley in the Civic’s Plaza Suite.
For close to four decades, playwright Neil Simon — balding, bulb-nosed, bespectacled — so dominated American theater that he became an unlikely object of desire. In her 2021 memoir Going There, journalist Katie Couric recalled setting out with the express intention of seducing him at a press conference for his 1985 film The Slugger’s Wife.
At the time Simon was approaching 60 and between his second and third marriages; Couric was
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