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Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a 1993 play by Neil Simon. 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.
- Neil Simon
- 1993
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Playwright Neil Simon, a television comedy writer himself, wrote Laughter on the 23rd Floor as a roman a clef: the characters are based on real people but given fictional names. There’s the flashy Milt, who prefers quantity over quality when it comes to jokes, Ira, the hypochondriac agitator, Val, the fussy Russian immigrant, Brian, who ...
ALEX FROSCH (Eddie/Dr. Scott) The things you’ve heard are true: Alex Frosch is a scoundrel and a fool! You might recognize Alex from your dream-like visions. Alex has been a clown in some things but nothing of note, until now: Alex prefers to remain mysterious to you.
Laughter on the 23rd Floor: Synopsis. 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 takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of television's golden age.
May 2, 2017 · As a way of sharing his own experience working as the 'new kid' learning the ropes from the other, more experienced writers, Neil Simon wrote the outrageous comedy LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd...
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May 27, 2011 · Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” being staged in Croton Falls, was inspired by Mr. Simon’s early television career working for Sid Caesar.
