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	MetroActive Stage \| Laughter on the 23rd Floor
		A stage-borne memoir scrubbed of enough autobiographical data and bite to leave potential litigants claimless, Laughter on the 23rd Floor is Simon's wan love letter to his early days as a freshman television writer for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.
		At its worst, the humor of Laughter on the 23rd Floor is humorlessly baroque: Some gags choke on themselves, and others simply seem decorative, almost requiring a rimshot to cue the audience when to laugh.
		Laughter on the 23rd Floor plays through Aug. 4 at the Santa Rosa High School Auditorium, 1235 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/07.15.99/23rdfloor-9928.html (535 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor at the Stagecrafters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Set in 1953, this semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon propels us back to an America when television was in its infancy, as the author recreates the mayhem among a bunch of brilliant and wacky comedy writers struggling to concoct routines for the reigning king of funny men, Max Prince.
		Imagine what it was like to work with Carl Reiner, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Mel Brooks, as Laughter on the 23rd Floor unfurls a mix of fast-paced one-liners, competitive one-upsmanship, an erratically-behaving boss, and the agony of trying to create sketch comedy week after week.
		All of this occurs against a backdrop of the stifling and intimidating McCarthy fllisting, the pressures of network politics, and shaky ratings; not to mention the trials and tribulations of the writers’ personal lives: divorce, illness, insolvency, psychoanalysis.
	www.thestagecrafters.org /0506/laughter.php (397 words)

	Kade Mendelowitz - Laughter on the 23rd Floor.
		The action centers around the relationships of the writers, and as one would expect, their dialogue overflows with clever jokes and wicked jibes.
		The cast for “Laughter” is unusually young, even for college theater.
		“Laughter on the 23rd Floor” plays in the Lee H. Salisbury Lab Theater this weekend.
	www.alaskasbest.com /kade/print/laughter.htm (698 words)

	Gainesville Sun Review: Laughter on the 23rd Floor
		Neil Simon's comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor," on stage at the Hippodrome State Theatre, recreates that era with a nostalgic portrait of the writers who worked on that brilliant trailblazer and of the man at its helm, Sid Caesar.
		It's not surprising then that Simon's "Laughter" is one long collection of jokes: one-liners, sight gags and dipsy-doodle situations that go on nonstop all evening.
		James Morgan designed the 23rd floor's office room and Leslie Klein's '50s costumes are typical of the era, quirky and funny.
	thehipp.org /23gsrev.html (623 words)

	Saratoga News \| 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor'
		Portraying the lively group of comedy writers in West Valley College's 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor' are, from left: Max Overland, Patrick Sieler, Warren Baker and Woody Harper.
		Those are show dates of Laughter on the 23rd Floor, a Neil Simon play performed by a cast of matriculated WVC college students and community members.
		All of the action takes place in the Writers' Room, where joke-writers brainstorm their gags, lines and sketches, banter with one another, compete for Caesar's attention, and contend with bad news from the NBC powers-that-be, who plan to cut the show from 90 minutes to just one hour.
	www.svcn.com /archives/saratoganews/11.17.99/laughter-9946.html (471 words)

	Set Dancing News - Old news and reviews - Volume 15 - 2002
		All trace of the cars and the sparking electric ceiling and floor are gone, revealing a gleaming floor of diagonally laid boards and a fascinating network of roof beams.
		This was very much a family ceili with plenty of kids on the floor, dancing with each other, their parents and the experienced dancers.
		The portable dance floor laid on carpet in the centre occupied about a quarter of the full floor space - there were plenty of tables and chairs all around.
	www.setdancingnews.net /news/onews15.lp (13160 words)

	Nathan Lane in Laughter on the 23rd Floor
		Nathan Lane in Laughter on the 23rd Floor
		Structured similarly to the earlier musical/film My Favorite Year, Laughter on the 23rd Floor features Stephen Mailer as Lucas, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and assorted wacky antics which take place in the writers' room of "The Max Prince Show".
		Showtime and Paramount have produced an original made for cable film version of "Laughter on the 23rd Floor." It features Nathan, Mark Linn-Baker, Victor Garber, Robert Guillaume, Peri Gilpin, Saul Rubinek, Dan Castellaneta, Richard Portnow, Zach Grenier, Mackenzie Astin, and Jake Goldsbie.
	www.nathanlane.com /Stage/23rd.html (273 words)

	Theatre Tulsa - Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This Broadway hit is a homage to the author’s early days in show biz when he worked as a junior jokesmith for Sid Caesar’s "Your Show of Shows".
		As the writers in the play try to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of head madman Max Prince (the Sid Caesar character), Max must contend with NBC brass who fear that his humor is too sophisticated for middle America.
		The Wall Street Journal said: "Laughter" is an old-style comedy; fast and furious without a thought in its head except to entertain." And Newsweek magazine said: "Now that Neil Simon has won his Pulitzer Prize (in 1991 for "Lost in Yonkers") he can relax and just be funny.
	www.theatretulsa.org /05season/laughter.html (238 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor News
		Laughter on the 23rd Floor News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Nathan Lane in Butley Nathan Lane, who is currently playing Oscar Madison in the soon-to-close revival of The Odd Couple at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, will return to Broadway in the Huntington Theatre Company...
		Last year, the Piedmont Players Theatre packed in audiences for "The Odd Couple." This year, they're hoping that another Neil Simon comedy, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," will prove to be as much of a...
	www.topix.net /movies/laughter-on-the-23rd-floor (526 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor"
		You'll have a good time at LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR.
		Described as the "flat-out funniest play in years" (Dennis Cunningham, CBS-TV), "screamingly funny" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "likely to remain the funniest comedy on Broadway for years" (Variety) and more, LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR is the finest of comedy shows about the finest of comedy shows, a formula built for success.
		LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR runs February 20 through 29, 2004.
	www.theatermirror.com /ASWlot2f.htm (789 words)

	Laughter On The 23rd Floor \| The A.V. Club
		A predictably white-bread Mackenzie Astin plays the clean-cut Simon surrogate, but the real star of 23rd Floor is Caesar surrogate Nathan Lane, as a comic genius who fuels his demanding work schedule with a steady diet of scotch and pills.
		In true middlebrow tradition, 23rd Floor plays upon its audience's sense of superiority over easy straw men—censorship, McCarthyism, clueless suits—while serving up rimshot-ready one-liners and unabashed sentiment nearly as unchallenging and homogenized as The Lawrence Welk Show, which Lane derides.
		Though it ceaselessly champions originality and risk-taking, Laughter On The 23rd Floor is conspicuously devoid of either.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/5194 (322 words)

	Generic Theater - Laughter On The 23rd Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Laughter On The 23rd Floor by Neil Simon
		Neil Simon's show of shows!" - NBC-TV About the Author: "If Broadway ever erects a monument to the patron saint of laughter, Neil Simon would have to be it," wrote Time magazine.
		In the theater, at the movies, and at home he has kept America laughing for more than 40 years and has been rewarded with four Tony Awards, two Emmys, a Screen Writers Guild Award, and a Pulitzer Prize.
	sites.communitylink.org /Generic/play1.html (264 words)

	Movie Info for Laughter On The 23rd Floor on MSN Movies
		Playwright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early '50s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's fabled television series Your Show of Shows, and this comedy (adapted by Simon from his play) takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of television's golden age.
		Prince's brother Harry (Richard Portnow) is Max's assistant, and his last line of defense against both the network and his writing staff, which spend its days coming up with business for the show while hurling humorous invective at each other and anyone else within earshot.
		(The actors playing Max's writers include Mark Linn-Baker, Victor Garber, Dan Castellaneta, Saul Rubinek, Peri Gilpin, and Zach Grenier.) Laughter on the 23rd Floor received its world premiere at the 2001 Palm Springs Film Festival and was scheduled for showings several months later on the Showtime premium cable network (who co-produced the feature).
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=175567 (265 words)

	tBlog - mambo
		After the release of the QFG Pentagon Strike Flash Animation on August 23rd, 2004, a veritable onslaught of new articles were published that sought to dismiss the "no plane at the Pentagon" theory.
		The top of the hole in the middle of the white box is at the same level as the top of the windows of the second floor, or about 23-25 feet from ground.
		Of course, this is not the case, which leaves us with the logical deduction that it is highly improbable that a 757 was involved in the attack on the Pentagon, and that a much smaller and more nimble aircraft was used.
	mambo.tblog.com /archive/2006/01 (15900 words)

	Letter concerning JF's review of Alg's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thank you for your fine review of our production, "Laughter on the 23rd floor." In reading it I wasn't quite sure however if it was a criticism, or if your intention was to express to your audience how "you" may have directed the show.
		However, when those choices differ significantly from what an audience might expect -- and in the case of Simon's plays, a long tradition of "frenetic banter" and fast-paced physical action has set the standard -- the audience deserves to be made aware of how these choices affect the production.
		In the case of Laughter on the 23rd Floor, I believe that these choices diminished the overall success of the show.
	www.goldfishpublishers.com /RHJFLaughterLetter.html (394 words)

	News coverage of Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		News coverage of Laughter on the 23rd Floor
		''Laughter on the 23rd Floor,'' Neil Simon's poignant recollection of his days as a junior writer for Sid Caesar, takes its audiences back to the 1950s and a time when Caesar's ''Your Show of Shows'' reigned supreme on television.
		''Laughter'' combines Simon's wit and theatrical nostalgia in a fast-paced evening of one liners and dramatic comic confrontations.
	www.paplayhouse.org /l23news.htm (214 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor tickets - Laughter on the 23rd Floor information - Los Angeles
		Laughter on the 23rd Floor tickets - Laughter on the 23rd Floor information - Los Angeles
		Laughter on the 23rd Floor is the funny and poignant Neil Simon comedy dramatizing Simon's time on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.
		For more information on Laughter on the 23rd Floor: www.laughteronthe23rdfloor.com
	www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/119966 (279 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor
		Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor captures the crazy personalities and lifestyle of a group of comedy writers, who work together to produce the most successful show on TV-The Max Prince Show.
		It is set on the 23rd Floor, in the creative office of the TV show, and the characters are under the direction the star of the show- Max Prince (Gary McDonald).
		It is narrated by Lucas (Tim Wright) - a young newcomer to the team- who isn't sure whether he is going to fit into the dynamic and eccentric crowd.
	www.theblurb.com.au /Issue24/Laughter.htm (413 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From America's favorite playwright, Neil Simon, Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a "screamingly funny" (Philadelphia Inquirer) Broadway hit about a team of comedy writers in television's Golden Age.
		Set in 1953, Neil Simon's "flat-out funniest play in years" (Dennis Cunningham, CBS- TV) re-creates the mayhem, neuroses, nonstop gags, and constant one-upmanship of a team of brilliantly funny social misfits as they write The Max Prince Show, a weekly variety program.
		It's no wonder Laughter on the 23rd Floor is "the funniest comedy on Broadway in years" (Variety).
	thehipp.org /laughter.html (258 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor tickets - Laughter on the 23rd Floor information - Ohio
		Laughter on the 23rd Floor tickets - Laughter on the 23rd Floor information - Ohio
		Set in 1953, LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR features a group of loony TV comedy writers who write for a weekly show called "The Max Prince Show." Each is trying to write the best material and come to the attention of Max Prince, the head cheese himself.
		For more information on Laughter on the 23rd Floor: www.beckcenter.org
	www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/1928 (185 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		You don't learn dramaturgical skills -- like plot construction or characterization -- from being a gag writer; Simon picked these up elsewhere while writing his first 26 plays.
		There are no dramaturgical skills in evidence whatsoever in his 27th, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Simon's loving memory play about his Sid Caesar days.
		The play (such as it is) is a gag writer's play about gag writers, a collective portrait of comic geniuses who admit that they have little or no life outside of their gag-writing session for that week's Max Prince show.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/23.html (442 words)

	Film information for Laughter on the 23rd Floor
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	Amazon.com: The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 4: Books: Neil Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I'm only a little ways into Laughter on the 23rd Floor, but I already love it.
		For instance, Rumors is an incredibly funny farce that contains both slap-stick and witty humour, while Lost in Yonkers is a powerful drama about the coming of age of two boys forced to live with their grandmother in the middle of Yonkers.
		The other three plays, London Suite, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Jake's Women are also strong pieces and were very enjoyable to read as well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/068484785X?v=glance (1188 words)

	Niel Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor
		”Laughter” will be staged November 7-30, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Renegade Center for the Arts, located at 404 West Superior Street in downtown Duluth.
		Neal Spinler, who directed the fl comedy “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” for Renegade in 2001, is directing “Laughter”.
		For reservations or information on “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”, call (218) 722-6775, (888) 722-6627, email BrianM@RenegadeComedy.org, or visit the Renegade web site at www.RenegadeComedy.org.
	www.renegadecomedy.org /past/laughter23rdfloor.htm (472 words)

	Salisbury Post \| LIFESTYLE \| PPT's 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor' continues through Saturday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		PPT's 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor' continues through Saturday
		At Livingstone: The Hornheads perform Feb. 11 at Livingstone College's Varick Auditorium.
		'Laughter on the 23rd Floor,' Piedmont Players Theatre - 7:30 p.m.
	www.salisburypost.com /lifestyle/52630018238655.php (2108 words)

	Circus History Message Board
		During the 1860's the museum rented live exotic animals from the John O'Brien circus,including the two-ton rhinoceros,"Big Pete." The Rhinoceroes was displayed on the ground floor but when he walked around the building shook, so customers got concered.
		All that aside, what may be of interest to some of the readers of this Board is the backside of his card, which is basically a resume and possibly a chronological list of his many past jobs.
		The show train was en route from Gouverneur, NY to Montreal, Quebec on August 23rd.
	www.circushistory.org /Query/Query05l.htm (11816 words)

	iBerkshires / BCC Players to Present Simon's 'Laughter On The 23rd Floor' -
		BCC Players to Present Simon's 'Laughter On The 23rd Floor'
		The BCC Players will present Neil Simon's comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" in the Robert Boland Theatre at Berkshire Community College.
		Directed by Sam Slack with technical direction by Christopher Gregory, the production will be presented "in the round" on March 24, 25 and 26 at 8 p.m., and on Easter Sunday, March 27, at 2 p.m.
	www.iberkshires.com /story.php?story_id=16928 (237 words)

	Laughter on the 23rd Floor mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Laughter on the 23rd Floor mistakes, goofs and bloopers
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