Laughter On The 23rd Floor Play

An emanuel azenberg and leonard soloway presentation of a play in two acts by neil simon.

Laughter on the 23rd floor play.

Center theatre group ahmanson theatre gordon davidson artistic director producer emanuel azenberg. Greg mccormack ray eckerle cathy romanovich jean kadela ed herman frank orlando peter gehn stewar. I would argue that this play has more laughs than any other simon play. It s loosely based on simon s early days as a television writer working with sid caesar on your show of shows.

Laughter on the 23rd floor doolittle theatre hollywood. It is entirely set in the writer s room of a sid caesar like variety show. The play is narrated by lucas the youngest and newest writer of the staff of the max prince show. It focuses on the star and writers of a tv comedy variety show in the 1950s inspired by simon s own early career experience as a junior writer along with his brother danny for your show of shows and caesar s hour.

There are a number of different writers all of whom have their own chaos and type of humor. Directed by richard benjamin. Writing a weekly tv show for a famous comic is anything but easy. Laughter on the 23rd floor.

The verbal and physical comedy is non stop. Greenville community theater 11 24 07 antonio d. With nathan lane mark linn baker saul rubinek dan castellaneta. This play takes place on the 23rd floor of a manhattan skyscraper.

Laughter on the 23rd floor is a 1993 play by neil simon. Laughter on the 23rd floor is another one of neil simon s autobiographical plays.