Romantic Comedy (play)
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Romantic Comedy is a Broadway play by Bernard Slade, author of Same Time, Next Year.
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 play opened on November 8, 1979 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 396 performances. The original cast included Mia Farrow, Anthony Perkins (who later was replaced by Keith Baxter), Carole Cook, and Benay Venuta.
In 1983, Slade adapted his play for a feature film starring Dudley Moore, Mary Steenburgen, and Frances Sternhagen.
