THE SUNSHINE BOYS Savoy Theatre

Neil Simon, the most financially successful playwright in Broadway’s history, began his career as a radio and television sketch writer. He is the master of the one-liner and the diminutive Danny DeVito and not-so-diminutive Richard Griffiths get a lot of laughs out of his jokes and old-time comic routines, a tribute to the vaudeville comedian’s art. The timing is everything. They are cast as two retired vaudevillians, who always quarreled and haven’t talked to each other in 12 years. They are persuaded to team up again for a TV special.