• Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 but not produced until 1942 because the Second World War began while it was in rehearsal...
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    then made her Broadway debut in the revival of the Noël Coward comedy Present Laughter (2017) earning a Theater World Award. Smulders was born in Vancouver...
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    Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter. He made his film debut in psychological drama Sophie's Choice (1982)...
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    for playing the lead role of Garry Essendine in a 2019 production of Present Laughter at The Old Vic, for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best...
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    mid-2007, he played Garry Essendine in a production of Noël Coward's Present Laughter at Boston's Huntington Theatre. He reprised the role on Broadway in...
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  • "Present Laughter" is a 1967 British television version of the play of the same name by Noël Coward. It aired as a Play of the Week. Peter O'Toole starred...
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    Lane, until he was cast in the 1982 Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter directed by and starring George C. Scott. This led to an extensive...
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    (1994), Company (1996), Clybourne Park (2011) Guys and Dolls (2016) and Present Laughter (2019). Thompson's film appearances include Four Weddings and a Funeral...
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    the theatre, notably winning an Olivier Award for her performance in Present Laughter (2019). Varma was raised in Bath, Somerset, the only child of an Indian...
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    in Loose Ends, and went on to star in the Broadway productions of Present Laughter (1982) and The Heidi Chronicles (1989). An eight-time Golden Globe...
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    productions, before making her Broadway debut with the 1996 revival of Present Laughter. She won two Drama Desk Awards and has been nominated for two Tony...
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  • Tale, Dido, Queen of Carthage (Shakespeare's Globe), The Seagull, Present Laughter, The Tempest (West Yorkshire Playhouse), and Quartermaine's Terms,...
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    role on Broadway was in a 1982 production of the Noël Coward play Present Laughter directed by George C. Scott. The following year, she appeared in the...
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    Death from laughter is an extremely rare form of death, usually resulting from either cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, that has itself been caused by a...
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  • theatre credits include London productions of the Noël Coward plays, Present Laughter (1981), Blithe Spirit (1997), and Hay Fever (2006). Her radio/audio...
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    of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter, and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire...
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    Theatre Guide. "Present Laughter". 1 August 2016. "Downton Abbey's Phyllis Logan to lead glittering cast in Noel Coward's Present Laughter at Richmond Theatre"...
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    "THEATRE / All dressed up with no place to go: Paul Taylor reviews Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre, London". The Independent. 25 June 1993. Retrieved...
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    Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter. He made his film debut in Sophie's Choice (1982) starring opposite...
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  • Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. He also directed Noël Coward's Present Laughter for Chichester Festival Theatre in April 2018, starring Rufus Hound...
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    office disappointment. O'Toole played in an adaptation of Noël Coward's Present Laughter for TV in 1968, and had a cameo in Casino Royale (1967). He played...
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  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Honey Library Theatre, Manchester 2003 Present Laughter Daphne Theatre Royal, Bath (Tour) 2004 All My Sons Ann Deever Library...
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  • might present initially to the emergency department, and laughter should be considered among the numerous differentials for syncope. Laughter-induced...
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    played Roland Maule in the Two River Theater revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter. In 2024, Escola wrote and starred in their play Oh, Mary! at the Lucille...
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    also include Present Laughter (1982), Merlin (1984), Wind in the Willows (1985), Guys and Dolls (1992), Some Americans Abroad (1990), Laughter on the 23rd...
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    Pirates of Penzance, and Best Actor in a Play for the 2017 revival of Present Laughter. He received an additional Tony Award nomination for his performance...
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  • Patrick Cargill and Mark Curry. In 1993, she was Monica in Coward's Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre, London, in a revival directed by and starring...
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    Wild at Heart in 2012. He appeared in his first Noël Coward play, Present Laughter in 2010 and followed it with a role in Blithe Spirit that same year...
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  • from September 1942 to March 1943, she created the roles of Joanna in Present Laughter and Ethel in the stage production of This Happy Breed, and played Elvira...
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  • Promises, Promises. Also in 2010 he appeared in the Broadway revival of Present Laughter. He starred as the title character Off-Broadway in the New Group production...
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