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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

by Neil Simon · 1993 · 114 pages

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From America's favorite playwright (Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple, and Lost in Yonkers), comes a "screamingly funny" (Philadelphia Inquirer) Broadway hit about a team of comedy writers in television's Golden Era.

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Genre
humorliterary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
1990snew yorknew york state
Audience
adult
Length
short · 114 pages
Form
plays

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