Why Sarah Jessica Parker’s line ‘The Savoy has gone!’ in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite will get a bigger laugh than usual in London, whose Savoy hotel is still there

In the opening scene of Neil Simon’s 1968 play and subsequent film, Plaza Suite, “Visitor from Mamaroneck” Karen Nash exclaims, “Oh my God, The Savoy has gone!” as she looks out of the window from The Plaza hotel, in New York. When Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw) delivers the line when … Read more