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The Barnstormer Theatre's ensemble cast of Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor": John Long as Brian Doyle, Doug Shapiro as Val Slotsky, Buddy Haardt as Lucas Brickman, Cheryl Mullings as Carol Wyman, Yianni Papadimos as Ira Stone, Jordan Stanley as Milt Fields, Robbie Rescigno as Kenny Franks and Dale Place as Max Prince. (COURTESY PHOTO)

TAMWORTH — Like the recent Mindy Kaling movie “Late Night,” Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” is a dramedy about the serious business of writing comedy for television. But luckily for the audiences coming to see the Barnstormers Theatre’s second production of the season, unlike the former, much of the latter is actually funny. As Simon’s Borscht Belt-era characters might say with a smirk and a shrug, “Go figure.”

That’s because we’re talking Neil Simon, from whose typewriter such witty gems as “The Odd Couple,” “The Sunshine Boys” and “Plaza Suite” flowed. Even in his so-so scripts (“Chapter Two” or “The Heartbreak Kid”), Simon, who died last year at age 91, could still school just about any other comic playwright.

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