Several months earlier they had booked a 900-odd-square-foot suite with wraparound balcony on one of the company's five identical new vessels, which carry 684 passengers, all adults.
Mr. Nichols, who is up for a sixth, for his direction of "Death of a Salesman," at this year's ceremony on June 10, won for "Barefoot in the Park" (1964), a two-for-one with "Luv" and "The Odd Couple" (1965), "Plaza Suite" (1968), "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" (1972) and "The Real Thing" (1984).
His "Barefoot in the Park," "The Odd Couple" and "Plaza Suite" were among the biggest hits of the 1960s, followed the next decade by "The Sunshine Boys" and "Chapter Two," then the three autobiographical plays in the '80s (with "Biloxi Blues," a Tony winner for best play, coming in between the other two).
As a director, he won numerous Tony Awards, including for Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," "The Odd Couple" and "Plaza Suite," and the 2012 revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".
By taking the Solo Suites into odd venues, I am finding new meanings in each place I play.
It was at the party that I noticed that of all the women who worked in that suite of 30-odd offices, I was the only physician; every other woman was administrative.
It is a bit odd that Google is reworking the suites, and that the end result is Chrome performing much better in the tests.
His spruce entertainments have racked up sensational numbers on Broadway: "Barefoot in the Park" (1963) ran for 1,530 performances; "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1982) for 1,299; "Plaza Suite" (1968) for 1,097; and "The Odd Couple" (1965) for 966.
Microsoft has announced a range of upgrades for its oddly named Office Live Small Business service (odd because it doesn't offer an online office suite).
In an odd twist, that office also happened to occupy the same suite where the World War II saboteurs were secretly tried under Roosevelt -- memorialized today by a plaque on the wall.
