This is Chapter Two in the continuing saga of Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon. When we last met Eugene, he was coping with adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Here he is a young army recruit during the Second World War, going through his basic training, learning more about Life, and generally developing his Writer's Sensibility at boot camp in Biloxi , Mississippi in 1943. Eugene and five other assorted enlisted men suffer under a hard-nosed DI, confront the daily 'mess' served up in the mess hall, join together in a visit to a local prostitute and, generally, become adults. For the first time, Eugene confronts the degradation of anti-Semitism; and, for the first time, he falls in love Then, his training over, it's goodbye Biloxi. 1985 Tony Award Best Play winner.

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