Gertrude Lawrence. Billy Rose. Guthrie McClintic. Do those names mean anything to you?

They are, respectively, a charismatic star, a flashy producer and a notable director of the Broadway of yesteryear, and they are wickedly caricatured in “Light Up the Sky,” a 1948 comedy about temperamental show-business folk being presented by Centenary Stage Company at the Lackland Center in Hackettstown.

When the play was originally produced, these colorful individuals were major celebrities. So was Moss Hart, the “Light Up the Sky” playwright, who collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a string of hit comedies like the Pulitzer Prize-winning “You Can’t Take It With You” during the 1930s and, working solo, had created the books for celebrated musicals like “Lady in the Dark.”

Sixty-odd years since “Light Up the Sky” proved a moderate success on Broadway, time has dimmed the celebrity of these luminaries, except in the minds of ardent theater buffs. But their counterparts remain fairly funny today in Hart’s comedy regarding a Broadway-bound new play about to have its premiere in Boston in 1948.