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Enter Laughing (film) Enter Laughing is a 1967 comedy film, directed by , based on his autobiographical novel and the 1963 stage play of the same name. [1] It was Reiner's directorial debut. Contents. Plot summary Cast Musical score and soundtrack Track listing Personnel See also References External links. The film stars Jose Ferrer, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Jack Gilford, Janet Margolin and newcomer Reni Santoni. It tells the story of a young Jewish man from the Bronx trying to break into the theater and launch a career in acting. The film has never been released on DVD or Blu-Ray. Plot summary. David Kolowitz (Reni Santoni) works as a delivery boy and assistant for a machine shop in City in 1938, and is fascinated with the movies. Despite the misgivings of his girlfriend Wanda (Janet Margolin), his parents (Shelley Winters and David Opatoshu) and his employer (Jack Gilford), David follows the suggestion of a friend (Michael J. Pollard) and becomes involved with an off-Broadway theater company run by Harrison B. Marlowe (Jose Ferrer). He admires Ronald Colman so he uses the stage name "Donald Colman". It is a margin operation that requires him to pay $5 a week for "tuition". Marlowe's daughter (Elaine May) takes a romantic interest in David, who perseveres despite a lack of acting talent and the hostility of Marlowe. Overcoming all the difficulties, he makes his acting debut and his parents and girlfriend accept his new interest. Jose Ferrer as Harrison B. Marlowe Shelley Winters as Emma Kolowitz Elaine May as Angela Marlowe Jack Gilford as Mr. Foreman Janet Margolin as Wanda Reni Santoni as David Kolowitz David Opatoshu as Morris Kolowitz Don Rickles as Harry Hamburger Michael J. Pollard as Marvin Richard Deacon as Pike Nancy Kovack as Miss B Herbie Faye as Mr. Schoenbaum Rob Reiner as Clark Baxter Danny Stein as Spencer Reynolds Milton Frome as Policeman Lillian Adams as Theatergoer Mantan Moreland as Subway Rider Patrick Campbell as Butler Peter Brocco as Lawyer Peabody. Musical score and soundtrack. ,"params": ,"type": ,"artist": ,"cover": ,"caption": ,"alt": ,"released": ,"recorded": ,"venue": ,"studio": ,"genre": ,"length": ,"label": ,"producer": ,"chronology": ,"prev_title": ,"prev_year": ,"next_title": ,"next_year": >,"i":0>>]>" > Enter Laughing Soundtrack album by. The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones, and the soundtrack album was released on the Liberty label in 1967. [2] [3] Track listing. All compositions by Quincy Jones except where noted. "Enter Laughing" (Lyrics by Mack David) − 2:30 "Exit Crying" 2:27 "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) − 2:27 "David Dooze It" − 2:19 "Main Title (Enter Laughing)" − 2:34 "Enter Laughing" − 4:05 "Ha-Cha-Cha" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) − 2:17 "Vienna Wails" − 2:15 "I Hear You Calling" − 1:55 "Enter Laughing (End Title) (Lyrics by Mack David) − 1:42. Personnel. Unidentified orchestra arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones including Mel Carter (tracks 1 & 10), Carl Reiner (tracks 3 & 7) − vocals. See also. Related Research Articles. Carl Reiner was an American actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned seven decades. During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he acted on and contributed sketch material for Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour , starring Sid Caesar, writing alongside Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. 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Woody Allen declared, “the two of them came along and elevated comedy to a brand-new level". Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein. Theatre In the Raw Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein, adapted from Carl Reiner's Novel. Dates and Venue May 8 - 12 & May 15 – 19, 2019 at 8pm | Studio 16, 1551 West 7th Ave. Director Jay Hamburger Costume Design Alaia Hamer Lighting Design Chengyan Boon Hair/Makeup Design Tammy Chou Props Design Jan Janovick Stage Manager Duston Baranow-Watts. Reviewer John Jane. Set in in the nineteen-thirties, Enter Laughing is a two-act comedy written by Joseph Stein, based on Carl Reiner’s semi- autobiographical novel. The odd title comes from a personal direction note, sometimes called a parenthetical, in the script from a play within the play. Carl Reiner, who was a producer, writer and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show , is still alive at the age of ninety-seven. Despite a distinguished career, he is probably best known as the father of Rob Reiner. Since first seen on Broadway in the early sixties, the play has had a number of incantations. It was the basis of the stage musical So Long, 174th Street , that closed almost before it opened. There is even a musical version of the same name that opened on Broadway in 2008. Reiner puts himself in the story as protagonist David Kolowitz (Adam Olgui), a nice Jewish kid from the Bronx, whose ambition and exuberance for an acting career far exceeds his talent. He already has a job in a sewing machine repair shop and his parents have plans for him to attend college to pursue a career in pharmacy. Notwithstanding our hero’s lack of skill or experience, he manages to land a part in his first play – albeit for no pay. Young Kolowitz’s other problem – if it really is one – is that he seems unable to meet a woman he isn’t sexually attractive to – or them to him. The play becomes somewhat farcical when his leading lady, the producer’s daughter Angela (Lisa Robertson) wants to take their onstage chemistry into reality. Adam Olgui turns in a fascinating madcap performance as the omnipresent David Kolowitz. I have to confess that I was skeptical as to whether he might run out of energy before the play ended. To his credit, he didn’t. Lisa Robertson is delightfully camp as Angela Marlowe and Noella Ansaldi is charmingly coquettish as Kolowitz’s dotting girlfriend. Ms. Ansaldi has the only earnest role and anchors the play’s second act. Together with Adam Olgui and Jennie McCahill she even manages a passable Bronx accent. Among the supportive roles, Jacques Lalonde brings warmth and character to the role of Kolowitz’s altruistic employer. Jennie McCahill delivers an audacious Miss B, while Giuseppe Bevilacqua shows excellent comic timing as her stage beau Roger Feinstein. Janis Harper and Stanley Fraser create some poignant moments as the protagonist’s watchful, though well-intentioned parents. Director Jay Hamburger maintains a lively pace throughout, without allowing the play to become uncontrollably slapstick. However, the first act may have benefitted by being ten minutes shorter. Philip Roaf’s set design is essentially a black box with partitions, painted in a mix of styles strung along the back of the stage. The enthusiastic cast have obviously put a lot of their heart and soul into this piece of theatre. Theatre in the Raw provides a production that is both uplifting and entertaining. Topics similar to or like Enter Laughing. Musical with a book by Joseph Stein and lyrics and music by Stan Daniels. 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Reiner wrote his semi-autobiographical novel at the peak of his popularity in the 1950s, recalling his frustrating and sidesplitting effort to break into show business as a teenager from the Bronx in the 1930s. Farah Alvin, Dana Costello, Chris Dwan and Allie Trimm in Enter Laughing at The York Theatre Company (Photo: Carol Rosegg) More production photos at NewYorkTheater.me. Reiner is now 97 – even his son Rob Reiner is now a name for nostalgists — so it shouldn’t be too surprising that there is an old-fashioned feel to the musical comedy adapted from Reiner’s novel. Still, it makes sense that the York Theatre Company is reviving Enter Laughing, in a well- directed production with a solid cast of pros , as the first show in its 50 th anniversary season. Part of their mission is to rediscover old musicals. Even if that original (possibly apocryphal) first audition occurred a full 80 years ago, the York production gives it new life and laughs, thanks to Chris Dwan, who portrays David Kolowitz, a 17-year-old stage-struck delivery boy from the Bronx who dreams of stardom. At the audition, David first reads “enter laughing” as if it’s dialogue, which tries the patience of the old hammy director Mr. Marlowe (portrayed by the magnificent David Schramm.) So David takes a breath and launches into one absurd aria of fake laughing after another, closer to tone-deaf scales or yodeling. It’s terrible, ridiculous, terrific – far funnier than it should be. Indeed, whenever Enter Laughing calls for Chris Dwan to be a terrible actor, he’s terrific. Dwan (who can’t be as young as he looks) is the best bad actor I’ve seen since Jeremy Shamos played the bad Broadway actor in the 2014 film Birdman . In general, the missteps, awkwardness and sheer physical chaos of the play-within-the-musical is as delightfully silly as the scenes of destruction in The Play That Goes Wrong. [adsanity_rotating align=”aligncenter” time=”10″ group_id=”1455″ /] Much of the rest of the musical shows its age, in various ways. Some of this is harmless. The theater program offers a glossary of all the old film stars whose names are dropped during the course of the show, providing short biographies of more than two dozen names, including Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich. Allow me to speculate wildly that a theatergoer who’s never heard of Bette Davis is probably not the ideal audience for this musical. For the rest of us, the design team gives us a reason to laugh before we even enter Enter Laughing . An entire wall of the lobby at the York Theater on the Upper East Side is covered with famous old movie posters – all of which, on closer inspection, feature David Kolowitz’s name in the credits and his face in the photographs. There’s Kolowitz canoodling with Mae West in She Done Him Wrong; there’s Kolowitz as the face of both Frankenstein and King Kong. The cast of Enter Laughing at The York Theatre Company (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Enter Laughing was adapted first into a Broadway play in 1963, starring Alan Arkin as David and Sylvia Sidney as his mother, and written by Joseph Stein, who the following year wrote the book for . Stein subsequently turned his play into a musical, collaborating with songwriter Stan Daniels, who is better known as an award-winning television producer (co-creator of Taxi and writer for The Mary Tyler Moore Show !) The musicalized show, entitled S o Long, 174th Street, was a flop on Broadway in 1976, closing after just 16 performances. The York reworked it and retitled it a decade ago; this is now the show’s third run at the York. The ideas behind many of Daniels’ 15 songs are cleverer than the actual lyrics and catchier than the melodies. Many of the songs are David’s fantasies – of getting his revenge (“Boy Oh Boy”), or of reaching impossible heights of stardom. In “The Butler’s Song,” Schramm is Marlowe, imagined as David’s butler explaining to Greta Garbo that David has no time to see her: He’s screwing Dolores del Rio that’s why he cannot speak to you he’s screwing Dolores del Rio and may not be disturbed ‘til he’s through. Clearly, David’s fantasy of stardom overlaps with other adolescent fantasies. But it’s apparently not just David who harbors these sexual fantasies; it seems to be the authors as well. How else to explain how all four women in the ten-member cast play characters who dote on this awkward teenager? Three of them are older women, only one of whom is his mother. Although there has been some attempt to adjust the show to modern sensibilities — “Undressing Girls With My Eyes” is now “Romancing Girls With My Eyes,” for example — the songs and subplots that revolve around David’s pursuit of, or by, these women, help make the musical feel dated. Then, there is David’s conflict with his parents, hard-working mensches from the Bronx who want David to be a druggist. At the end, of course, they come around – as such parents seem to have done in every such show business story since The Jazz Singer . As entertaining as Enter Laughing is, I look forward to a musical about a kid who chooses to be a druggist. Enter Laughing is on stage at the York Theatre Company (at St Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Avenue, on 54th Street between Lexington and Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022) through June 9, 2019. Tickets and details. Enter Laughing: The Musical . Book by Joseph Steinand music and lyrics by Stan Daniels, based on the play Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein from the novel by Carl Reiner. Directed and staged by Stuart Ross. music direction by Phil Reno. choreography by Jennifer Paulson-Lee. Sets by James Morgan, costumes by Tyler M. Holland, lights by Ken Billington & Jason Kantrowitz, sound by Julian Evans, props by Brooke van Hensbergen. Featuring Raji Ahsan as Pike, Farah Alvin as Angela Marlowe, Dana Costello as Miss B, Ray DeMattis as Mr. Foreman, Chris Dwan as David Kolowitz, Alison Fraser as Mother, Robert Picardo as Father, David Schramm as Marlowe, Allie Trimm as Wanda, and Joe Veale as Marvin. Reviewed by Jonathan Mandell. About Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell is a third-generation New York City journalist and a digital native, who has written about the theater for a range of publications, including Playbill, American Theatre Magazine, , Newsday, Backstage, NPR.com and CNN.com. He holds a BA from Yale and an MA from Columbia University, and has taught at the Columbia School of Journalism and New York University. He blogs at NewYorkTheater.me and Tweets as @NewYorkTheater. Comments. Jim Morgan says. Jonathan: Glad you loved the show! If you want to see a musical about a kid who wants to be a druggist, I suggest you seek out a production of SO LONG, 174th STREET in one of the many summer stock productions it will enjoy this year all over the country. Oh wait…It was a flop. Enter Laughing opens September 24… Profiling Director Will Jeffries. Enter Laughing opens in just one week, Friday September 24 at 8:00 PM, and Off-Book will be profiling cast members and crew over the next weeks to give a behind-the-scenes look at who’s who! WCT is so very pleased to have as noted director, actor and set designer Will Jeffries at the helm! We are of the opinion there is nothing Will can’t do… and audiences are in for a treat. The production is excellent – he has truly gotten some amazing performances from his actors, and the show achieves that rare blend of heartwarming emotional comedy and laugh-out-loud funny comedy. In a little twist of irony, Will is playing the director of the play-within-the-play at the heart of the plot of “Enter Laughing” – his performance as Marlowe is superbly memorable. And his set design, not an easy task as the play takes place in a variety of settings ranging from a machine shop to a theatre to a cemetery… is ingenious! A little about Will, who is well known to Connecticut audiences for his work on stage and behind-the-scenes: Will Jeffries as "Marlowe" and Tim Cronin as "Pike" in "Enter Laughing" Will Jeffries – Director, Set Designer and appearing as "Marlowe" in "Enter Laughing" Officially retired after 25 years in the professional ranks in N.Y. & L.A., his acting on stage includes – off-Broadway as JFK in Kennedy At Colonus , originating the role of Arnold’s lover Ed in two segments of Torch Song Trilogy by and with Harvey Fierstein, as IRA commander Keeney in the American Premiere of Brian Friel’s Volunteers , and for director Marshall W. Mason, he had the privilege of co-starring in Shaw’s Don Juan In Hell , (with Ricardo Montalban, Lynn Redgrave, and Stewart Granger ), in films ( Iron Eagle, Remo Williams , Refuge ), dozens of TV series ( ER, Newhart, Valerie , and a bunch of Matlock’s ), soaps (as the evil Damon on General Hospital ), and in your living room in hundreds of commercials. Over the years, he has directed productions of A Streetcar Named Desire , That Championship Season, Purlie Victorious, Black Comedy , Henry Fielding’s Tom Thumb , and others, and has designed sets for Agatha Christie’s The Hollow, Jesus Christ Superstar , and That Championship Season . Will has returned to his native New England, and has found a true community of theatre people with whom to collaborate. In recent seasons, he has directed Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women , the premiere production of Leonardo , and The House of Blue Leaves . Set design credits include Three Tall Women, Sleuth, Camelot, Beyond Therapy , and The Memory of Water . As an actor, he has appeared in leading roles in The Cocktail Hour, Sleuth, The Rimers of Eldritch, My Side of The Story, Romantic Comedy, Love Letters, Camelot , and Beyond Therapy . At WCT, he appeared as Mr. Lockhart in the acclaimed Bare Bones/WCT staged reading of last year. Share this: “Enter Laughing” – two weeks until opening night September 24! Carl Reiner from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Carl Reiner, semi-autobiographical source of "Enter Laughing" It’s hard to believe, but at Westport Community Theatre we’re about to open our 55th Anniversary season Friday night, September 24, at 8:00 PM! This upcoming season promises to be one of – if not the – most memorable seasons with a crowd-pleasing mix of shows. We couldn’t be more proud to kick the season off with a critically acclaimed comedic gem from the second half of the 20th century, “Enter Laughing” by Joseph Stein, directed by noted actor and director Will Jeffries. The heartfelt, uproarious, enthusiastically praised comedy is based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the early life of comedian Carl Reiner. We know that Off Book readers span multiple generations – and decades of Carl Reiner’s work has touched every one of you. We’ve put together the following “word cloud” to help to jog your memory and define Carl Reiner’s career; see how many of these references you recognize: Writer… Caesar’s Hour… The. Dinah Shore Chevy Show… A Date with Debbie… The Thrill of it All (with Larry Gelbart of MASH fame)… The Dick Van Dyke Show… … The 2000 Year-Old Man (comedy routine with a guy called Mel Brooks) Director… Good Morning, World (ouch if you know that one)… The Dick Van Dyke Show… The One and Only… … Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid… … All of Me… Summer Rental… Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool… Sibling Rivalry… … That Old Feeling. Comedian… Cavalcade of Stars … The Name’s the Same… Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall … To Tell the Truth… I’ve Got a Secret … The George Gobel Show… This Is Your Life … The Ed Sullivan Show… The New Steve Allen Show … The Jerry Lewis Show… The Judy Garland Show … The Jack Paar Program… The Andy Williams Show … The Hollywood Palace… The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour … That Girl… Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In … The David Frost Show… The Julie Andrews Hour … Password All-Stars… The Hollywood Squares … The Carol Burnett Show… The Merv Griffin Show … The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson… and Jay Leno… and every talk show through 2010… Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color … It’s Garry Shandling’s Show. Actor… let’s go the other way through time… Hot in Cleveland … Two and a Half Men… House M.D …. Ocean’s Thirteen, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Eleven… Boston Legal … Ally McBeal… Crossing Jordan … King of the Hill… Mad about You … Frasier… Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid … The Jerk… Oh, God … Night Gallery… The Comic … A Guide for the Married Man… The Dick Van Dyke Show … The Russians are Coming the Russians are Coming… Linus! The Lion Hearted … John Goldfarb, Please Come Home… Burke’s Law … It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World… Gidget Goes Hawaiia n… Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse… The Sid Caesar Show … Playhouse 90… Your Show of Shows … And did we mention “The Dick Van Dyke Show”. Writer, Director, Comedian, Actor, Producer Carl Reiner’s early days, as he got his start in what would become an 8-decade career in show business, were a treasure trove of material, much of which you’ll see in the plot of “Enter Laughing.” From his days as a machinist to his first breaks in show business to his perpetually endearing faux pas to his fond family recollections, young Carl Reiner’s life becomes coming of age tale about David Kolowitz, a stage-struck, woman-struck teenager from the Bronx in 1930s New York City. Tomorrow… get to know director Will Jeffries. “Enter Laughing” runs September 24 – October 10, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm, and Thursday, September 30 at 8:00 pm. Westport Community Theatre at Westport Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Avenue, Westport. Tickets are $14 – $20; for reservations and information go to (203) 226-1983 or go to westportcommunitytheatre.com for directions. Share this: “Enter Laughing” Auditions Sunday July 11 at 7:00 PM. Auditions July 11 at 7:00 PM. WESTPORT COMMUNITY THEATRE. Announces AUDITIONS for. Enter Laughing. by Joseph Stein adapted from the novel by Carl Reiner. Directed by Lester Colodny. Auditions will be held on: Sunday, July 11 at 7:00 PM. at Westport Community Theatre. Westport Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Avenue, Westport, CT. Enter Laughing is the semi-autobiographical coming of age story based on the novel written by Carl Reiner. Taking place in 1938, it tells the hilarious story of a stage-struck, woman-struck young Jewish kid from the Bronx named David Kolowitz. David is a delivery boy in a sewing machine factory. His boss, Mr. Foreman wants to train him to take over the business. His quintessential loving but domineering mother and overwhelmed father want him to become a druggist, but David has other ideas – he dreams of being an actor despite his obvious lack of acting experience. At his friend Marvin’s suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it even though he’s not that good. Although discouraged by his parents and boss, he leaves their dreams and his devoted girlfriend Wanda behind and is soon enlisted (and paying for) a slot as the “leading man” in a third-rate theatrical company while being seduced by the resident less-than leading lady, the daughter of the hammy “artistic director”. His baptism of fire is a hilarious first performance where everything that can go wrong, does. “Joyously funny.”- New York Daily News. “Marvelously funny…Doesn’t provide enough rest periods between side splitting laughs.”- The New York Times. Performances Dates are September 24 – October 10, 2010. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Familiarity with the play is suggested. Characters: DAVID: Tall, good looking, should pass for seventeen…outgoing, but shy in sexual encounters…one of those delightful boy wonders of the twenties and thirties who is going to make something of himself. MARVIN: Short, same age as DAVID…a shnook. MR FOREMAN: Older, at least fiftyish, an old fashioned manufacturer, nosy. WANDA: DAVID’s love, sweet young thing, pretty, about 17. MARLOWE: An older theatrical impresario…one would think of him as a Shakespearean mandarin instead of a teacher in a third rate theater… father of Angela. ANGELA: About twenty… Marlowe’s daughter… a would be sexy actress…. poetic, dumb as they come. PIKE (male or female) Older, Marlowe’s asst, stuffy second banana. MS B: About twenty five… gay, outgoing, exhilarating sex symbol. FATHER and MOTHER: David’s pop… late forties or fifties… put-upon, tired… and typical Jewish mother , ruler of the roost. WOMAN (MAYBE): Saleswoman, Jewish. ROGER: Thirties… the unwilling bachelor friend of Miss B who is about to roped into marriage.