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New York Times

An Innocent in Love and Show Business
“Enter Laughing” is getting a hilarious second-chance staging by the York Theater Company.

UPDATED 9/15/08

Bloomberg.com

`Enter Laughing' Charms With Melodious Rant, Backstage Comedy: John Simon
"Enter Laughing'' is now making its fifth entrance. First it was Carl Reiner's semiautobiographical novel (1958), then a stage comedy adapted by Joseph Stein (1962), next a movie directed by Reiner (1967), followed ...

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Enter Laughing: The Musical reviewed by Robert Windeler
The nonmusical play Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein, based on Carl Reiner's 1958 autobiographical novel, opened on Broadway in 1963, was an immediate hit, and made a star of Alan Arkin.

CurtainUp

Review: Enter Laughing
The York theater has managed to give what was once a musical flop a worthy new life with simple but splendid production values and a 14-strong cast as good as anyone treading the boards at a higher-priced Broadway theater.

AmericanTheaterWeb

Review: Enter Laughing - Musical Hilarity Found In Stage-Struck Boy's Bio

amNY

Off Broadway: 'Enter Laughing,' exit roaring
Based directly on Carl Reiner's 1958 semi-autobiographical memoir, "Enter Laughing" is a great coming-of-age story during the Depression.

New York Post

'Laughing' musical quite a hoot
'Enter Laughing: The Musical" is the funniest tuner to hit town since "The Producers." And why not? Like Mel Brooks, both Carl ...

Variety

Review: Enter Laughing
...the show presents two compelling reasons for musical comedy fans to make a trip to the York's digs in the subcellar of Citicorp Center. One is the valedictory performance of wily old scene-stealer George S. Irving; the other is a surprisingly fine performance by wily young scene-stealer Josh Grisetti.

The Village Voice La Daily Musto Blog

Exit Laughing After Seeing The York Theatre's Newest Exercise in Nice

TheaterMania

Review: Enter Laughing
The York's revised version of the flop Broadway musical So Long, 174th Street proves to be a perfectly classic -- and perfectly cast -- musical comedy.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Enter Laughing: The Musical
Boring is boring, whatever it's titled. Whether you want to call the revival that just opened at the York Theatre Company by its original name, So Long, 174th Street, or by its artless new moniker, Enter Laughing: The Musical, you're still referring to the same Joseph Stein-Stan Daniels tuner that flopped after 16 performances in 1976. . . .

nytheatre.com

Review: Enter Laughing