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Romantic Comedy (play)

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Phoebe Craddock and Jason Carmichael are 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. Their repartée remains sharp and witty as their unrequited interest in each other gathers energy over a
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almost makes up in comedy what it lacks in romance... Mia Farrow is quite good... Anthony Perkins desperately lacks charisma..."
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wrote: "A darling of a play...zesty entertainment of cool wit and warm sentiment."
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nine-year period, until some resolution finally is in sight.
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Two playwrights collaborate over the course of nine years
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Bernard Slade
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
New York City
Romantic comedy
Bernard Slade
Same Time, Next Year
Broadway
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Joseph Hardy
Jane Greenwood
Tharon Musser
Mia Farrow
Anthony Perkins
Carole Cook
Holly Palance
Greg Mullavey
Deborah May
Keith Baxter
Karen Valentine
Benay Venuta
feature film
Arthur Hiller
Dudley Moore
Mary Steenburgen
Apollo Theatre
Tom Conti
Pauline Collins
John Simon
New York Magazine
ISBN

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