Show | Laughter on the 23rd Floor |
Company | Playcrafters Theatre Company |
Director | Bob Kaplan |
Instructions | In addition to reading from the script, each person will be asked to be prepared to tell a joke. Roles & Audition Sides - from the Samuel French script, 1995 Edition For further information contact Bob Kaplan at 631-793-6722 or mediamanbob1@gmail.com |
Performance Dates | Fridays, November 1 & 8 @ 8pm Saturdays, November 2 & 9 @ 8pm Sundays, November 3 & 10 @ 3pm |
Questions | Send Mail |
Show Info | 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. Max Prince is the star of The Max Prince Show, a popular comedy-variety series that is a major hit on the East Coast, but network executive insists that it's too sophisticated for the Midwest and urges Prince to dumb down his act. Between the tensions of producing an hour of top-quality comedy each week and being pestered about his ratings, Prince is beginning to unravel. His last line of defense against both the network and the ratings are his writing staff, which spends its days coming up with business for the show while hurling humorous invective at each other and anyone else within earshot. Keeping up a running commentary on the writing, fighting and wacky antics is Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman. |
Type | Location | Date | Time |
Open | Boys & Girls Club of the Bellport Area 471 Atlantic Ave Bellport | Sep 07 | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
Open | Boys & Girls Club of the Bellport Area 471 Atlantic Ave Bellport | Sep 09 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM |
Roles
Role | M/F | Age | Description | Max Prince | M | 40-60 | A bigger-than-life comic actor who is the mega-star of a hugely popular television variety show ?The Max Prince Show,? based on Sid Caesar and ?Your Show of Shows; -- cannot help but dominate a room entirely Pages 30-32 | Lucas Brickman | M | 20-30 | The freshman writer, sensible and sincere. Pages 8-9 | Milt Fields | M | 40-55 | The flamboyant ?gag? man; a joke a minute wholesaler who deals in fast paced patter. Pages 10-11 | Val Slotsky | M | 40-55 | A senior member of the staff; the most politically aware of all the writers, a Russian immigrant, he should still carry a strong accent. Pages 12-15 | Brian Doyle | M | 40-55 | An Irish American with a biting sense of humor and acerbic outlook on life; a heavy smoker, heavy cougher and heavy drinker Pages 16-18 | Kenny Franks | M | 30-40 | Considered the ?boy genius? of the group but also the most sophisticated of the writers Pages 18-20 | Ira Stone | M | 30-45 | A hypochondriac who comes in late every day with a new ailment; his humor is wrapped around despair Page 45; page 91 | Carol Wyman | F | 30-50 | The only woman writer on the show; has a strong and quick defense system. Page 81 | Helen | F | 20-30 | Max?s female secretary; attractive in a quirky way; completely out of her element in the writer?s room Pages 84-85, Pages 89-90 |