Images by Christopher Loveless: Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon, Austin Playhouse, February 25 - March 27

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

by Neil Simon

directed by Don Toner

Feb. 25 - March 27

Austin Playhouse Main Stage, Penn Field, 3601 S. Congress (click for map)

Tickets are $26 Thursday and Friday and $28 Saturday and Sunday.

All student tickets are half price!

For Tickets, Call (512) 476-0084 or click here to order tickets online.

Hot on the heels of our most successful show ever, we're thrilled to bring theatrical legend Neil Simon's nostalgic comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor to the stage! Set in 1953, Laughter recalls Simon's days as a young writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. The play is a fast-paced and very fun comic romp through the behind-the-scenes antics in the writers' room.

Laughter features an all star cast including Kimberly Barrow, Brian Coughlin,Huck Huckaby, Jenny Larson, Jason Newman, Steve Shearer, Blake Adam Smith, David Stahl, and David Stokey!

Directed by Don Toner, Costume Design by Buffy Manners, Lighting Design by Don Day, and Sound Design by the Gunn Brothers.

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Upcoming: Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Austin Playhouse, February 25 - March 27

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

by Neil Simon

directed by Don Toner

Feb. 25 - March 27

Austin Playhouse Main Stage, Penn Field, 3601 S. Congress (click for map)

Tickets are $26 Thursday and Friday and $28 Saturday and Sunday.

All student tickets are half price!

For Tickets, Call (512) 476-0084 or click here to order tickets online.

Hot on the heels of our most successful show ever, we're thrilled to bring theatrical legend Neil Simon's nostalgic comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor to the stage! Set in 1953, Laughter recalls Simon's days as a young writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. The play is a fast-paced and very fun comic romp through the behind-the-scenes antics in the writers' room.

Laughter features an all star cast including Kimberly Barrow, Brian Coughlin,Huck Huckaby, Jenny Larson, Jason Newman, Steve Shearer, Blake Adam Smith, David Stahl, and David Stokey!

For more information, visit our website!

Laughter on the 23rd Floor, City Theatre, November 21 - December 20

There's no assembly more live-wire, unpredictable and funny than a room full of comedy writers. In Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon, director Andy Berkovsky and a wild, accomplished cast mint anew the eccentrics of the early days of television.

Word has gotten around about this show, which opened in November, took a long weekend's break for Thanksgiving, and will now be on the boards until just before Christmas. I planned to slip in on a Thursday night, usually a quieter time for theatre venues. The parking lot was full, and so was the theatre. They might have benefited from holiday spirits, but word of mouth and favorable reviews probably had a lot to do with it.

This is Simon's tribute to the wild clan that wrote Sid Caesar's Show of Shows, the variety and sketch show that had a huge following in the early days of television. Caesar hired Simon and his brother Danny on the strength of comedy sketches they staged at Camp Tamiment, an adult summer camp in the Poconos. In the play the young writer Lucas Brickman, played by the affably sincere Keith Yawn, serves as narrator, chorus and stand-in for Simon.

Simon presents the eight writers as magnificent New York eccentrics, mostly Jewish and mostly with recent ties to Europe -- principally to Russia and Poland. The show program provides Simon's one-paragraph sketch of each. Wikipedia matches them to the real-life writers Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, playwright Michael Stewart, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Selma Diamond and Woody Allen and Dave Caesar, Sid's brother.

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New Images for Ongoing: Laughter on the 23rd Floor, City Theatre, November 19 - December 20

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, December 13


Received directly: four production images from City Theatre's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, opening Thursday, November 19. The show runs through December 20, except for a weekend dark for Thanksgiving, November 26 - 29.

Click for "upcoming" announcement of November 7 with details of production, script and cast.

Pictured: sitting - Keith Yawn, Dawn Erin, Craig Kanne; standing - Macey Mayfield, Scot Friedman, Judd Farris, R. Michael Clinkscales, Gil Austin, Doug Labelle.

Photos from City Theatre, Austin. Click on image to view larger version.

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Upcoming: Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon, City Theatre, November 19 - December 20

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, December 13

UPDATE: Review by Ryan E. Johnson at Austinist.com, December 10

UPDATE: Review by Barry Pineo in Austin Chronicle, December 10

UPDATE: Review by Rob Faubion at AustinOnStage, December 3

UPDATE: View production images received November 19

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Ring in the holiday season
at City Theatre
with Neil Simon’s comedy of high jinks, good times and

Laughter on the 23rd Floor
directed by Andy Berkovsky

November 19 – December 20
Thursdays – Saturdays 8:00 p.m., Sundays 5:30 p.m.
City Theatre, Austin
Tickets $15 - $20. Guaranteed front row reserved seats $25. Students $12. Discounts available for groups and seniors. Thursdays, all seats $10.

If Broadway ever erects a monument to the patron saint of laughter, Neil Simon would have to be it. And The City Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the holiday run of his hilarious comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor, an autobiographical farce inspired by Simon’s own career churning out jokes for Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, where he worked alongside of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Larry Gelbart.

The comedy plays November 19 – December 20, Thursday through Sunday at The City Theatre.

Laughter introduces an assortment of zany and oddball writers, many based upon actual personalities, including Simon himself. The play chronicles the outrageous antics of The Max Prince Show, a 1953 variety show under the pressure of McCarthyism, censorship, and, of course, the egos and individuality of the writers themselves.

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