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Title: On the set of TV's golden age.(Entertainment)(Actors Cabaret stages Neil Simon's play about his days on Sid Caesar's This Show of Shows'')
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: March 14, 2004
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: L4Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard
What a time it must have been. Imagine great wits such as Sid Caesar, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Howie Morris, Max Liebman, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen and Imogene Coca all together in the same room working on the same project. What a fun house.
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All the monkey business that went into creating Sid Caesar's 90-minute early television comedy program "Your Show of Shows" turns up in the comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," Simon's love letter to his comedy roots in the golden age of television.
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