(HILLSBOROUGH, NJ) -- Somerset Valley Players presents Come Blow Your Horn by Neil Simon across three weekends from March 6-22, 2026. The play tells the story of a young man’s decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Buddy is a 21-year-old virgin and his older brother Alan is a ladies’ man. Alan lives in an apartment in the East Sixties, New York City.
As the play progresses, Alan discovers feelings for one of the many women with whom he is sleeping, and when she leaves him, he falls apart. This juxtaposes Alan’s hunger for companionship with Buddy’s metamorphosis into a ladies’ man. The playwright points out the fundamental spiritual and emotional emptiness of the playboy lifestyle for which the younger sibling desperately yearns.
The cast includes Matt Robert (Alan Baker), Jacob Turchi (Buddy Baker), Mark Noble (Mr. Harry Baker), Tracey Fama (Mrs. Sophie Baker), Maria Aromando (Connie Dayton), Kathleen McCunney (Peggy Evans), and Roberta Steve (Gussie).
Performances take place Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm; Sunday matinees at 2:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. The theater is located at 689 Amwell Road (Rte 514) in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
The production team includes Producer – Holly Lessing; Director – Todd Bennington; Stage Manager – Melissa Noble; Lighting Designer – Alex Fritsch; Sound Designer – Adam Noble; Set Designer – Mark Noble; Set Dresser – Emily Muller; Props – Joanne Guerriero; and Costumes – Melissa Hommes.
Come Blow Your Horn opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on February 22, 1961 under the direction of Stanley Prager. It was Neil Simon's first Broadway comedy smash.
American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (1927-2018) is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific and performed playwrights in theatre history. In addition to Lost In Yonkers, which won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, his plays and musicals include Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God's Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, I Ought to be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple (female version), Broadway Bound, Rumors, Jake's Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, London Suite, Proposals, Hotel Suite, The Dinner Party, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Oscar and Felix, and Rose's Dilemma.
In addition to the film adaptations he wrote of many of his plays, his screenplay credits include After the Fox, The Out-Of-Towners, The Heartbreak Kid (original 1973 version), Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, Max Dugan Returns, The Slugger's Wife, The Marrying Man and The Odd Couple II. Other motion pictures based on stage plays include Come Blow Your Horn, Sweet Charity and The Star-Spangled Girl. For television, Mr. Simon wrote series, teleplays and motion pictures, including The Tallulah Bankhead Show, The Sid Caesar Show, The Phil Silvers Arrow Show, The Phil Silvers Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Trouble with People, ABC's Broadway Bound and Jake’s Women.
Books by Neil Simon include Rewrites, A Memoir, The Play Goes On, four omnibus collections of Neil Simon's plays (The Comedy Of Neil Simon, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. II, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. 3, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. 4) and Lost In Yonkers (screenplay).
Mr. Simon received more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer. Awards he received include the Pulitzer Prize for Lost In Yonkers, Emmy Awards for The Sid Caesar Show and The Phil Silvers Show, Tony Awards for The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, Lost In Yonkers and a special Tony Award For Overall Contribution To The Theatre. His nominations include Tony Award Nominations for Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers and The Goodbye Girl (musical). Other nominations include a Writers Guild Screen Award for The Odd Couple and The Out-Of-Towners, a Writers Guild Laurel Award, an American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Writers Guild Screen Award Nomination for Barefoot in the Park, as well as an Oscar Nomination for The Odd Couple, an Evening Standard Award, a Sam S. Shubert Foundation Award, Kennedy Center Honors, a UCLA Medal, a Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award and a William Inge Theater Festival Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater.
The Somerset Valley Players is committed to providing affordable, accessible, award-winning theatre to audiences in Somerset County and beyond. They are committed to high performance and production standards; celebrating new and classic theatre works; and offering local talent and volunteers an opportunity to learn, grow, and have their efforts recognized and rewarded.
Made possible by funds from the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
