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Romantic Comedy is a play by Bernard Slade
Bernard Slade

Bernard Slade is a Canada playwright and screenwriter.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade began his career as an actor with the Garden Center Theatre in Vineland, Ontario....
, author of Same Time, Next Year
Same Time, Next Year

Same Time, Next Year is 1975 comedy Play by Bernard Slade. The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years....
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The plot focuses on Phoebe Craddock and Jason Carmichael, playwrights who meet and decide to collaborate just as he is getting married. Their relationship produces first a failure and then a string of successes, and their repartée remains sharp and witty as their unrequited interest in each other gathers energy over a nine-year period, until some resolution finally is in sight.

Following eleven previews, the Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 production directed by Joseph Hardy
Joseph Hardy

Joseph A. Hardy III is the founder and CEO of the 84 Lumber Company.Joe Hardy was raised by middle class parents in the jewelry business, but the experiences of the Great Depression taught him the value of hard work....
 opened on November 8, 1979 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....
, where it ran for 396 performances.






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Romantic Comedy is a play by Bernard Slade
Bernard Slade

Bernard Slade is a Canada playwright and screenwriter.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade began his career as an actor with the Garden Center Theatre in Vineland, Ontario....
, author of Same Time, Next Year
Same Time, Next Year

Same Time, Next Year is 1975 comedy Play by Bernard Slade. The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years....
.

The plot focuses on Phoebe Craddock and Jason Carmichael, playwrights who meet and decide to collaborate just as he is getting married. Their relationship produces first a failure and then a string of successes, and their repartée remains sharp and witty as their unrequited interest in each other gathers energy over a nine-year period, until some resolution finally is in sight.

Following eleven previews, the Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 production directed by Joseph Hardy
Joseph Hardy

Joseph A. Hardy III is the founder and CEO of the 84 Lumber Company.Joe Hardy was raised by middle class parents in the jewelry business, but the experiences of the Great Depression taught him the value of hard work....
 opened on November 8, 1979 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....
, where it ran for 396 performances. The original cast included Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
, Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels....
 (who later was replaced by Keith Baxter
Keith Baxter (actor)

Keith Baxter is a Wales theatre, film, and television actor....
), Carole Cook
Carole Cook

Carole Cook is an United States actress. She has appeared in many films and on television.Carole Cook was a protege of Lucille Ball. Ball gave her the stage name of "Carole", after her friend Carole Lombard because, said Ball, "you have the same healthy disrespect for all things in general"....
, and Benay Venuta
Benay Venuta

Benay Venuta was an United States actress, singer and dancer.Born Benvenuta Rose Crooke in San Francisco, Venuta attended finishing school in Geneva and lived in London where she worked as a dancer before returning to the States....
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In 1983, Slade adapted his play for an MGM/UA Entertainment Company feature film
Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial Film distributor in Movie theater and being the "main attraction" of the screening ....
 directed by Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller, Order of Canada is a Canadian film director.Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an Honorary degree Doctor of Laws in 1995....
 and starring Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, comedian and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the hugely popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook....
, Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

Mary Nell Steenburgen is an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
, and Frances Sternhagen
Frances Sternhagen

Frances Hussey Sternhagen is an United States actor. Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies and on TV ever since the 1950s, and today is among the leading ladies of the New York stage with major roles continuing well into her 70s....
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