Sunday in New York (play)

Sunday in New York was a 1961 American romantic comedy Broadway play written by Norman Krasna, produced by David Merrick, directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Robert Redford. It ran for 188 performances.[1]

For the 1963 film, see Sunday in New York (film).
Sunday in New York
Written byNorman Krasna
Date premiered29 November 1961
Place premieredCort Theatre, New York
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy
SettingNew York City. The Present

It was made into a 1963 film, Sunday in New York, starring Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor and Cliff Robertson. Krasna wrote the screenplay.

Cast

Reception

The New York Times called it "inventive and chic. Only the substance is familiar and thin."[2] Walter Kerr called it a "sentimentalised farce... precisely the kind of echo chamber exercise that drives intelligent young theatregoers to complete despair."[3]

Redford later said he liked the jokes but felt the play was "not up to the standard of a Kanin-Gordon script".[4] However the New York Times review was positive enough to ensure a semi-decent run and give Redford his first significant stage success.[5]

The show closed in May 1962 after 189 performances.[6]

The play ran for two years in Paris, and had a successful run in Los Angeles in a production starring Marlo Thomas.[7]

Redford's appearance in the play would later help him be cast in Barefoot in the Park. It also contributed to George Roy Hill casting him in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid because it gave Hill confidence Redford could handle comedy.[8]

See also

References
  1. Sunday in New York original production Playbill at Playbill
  2. Theatre: Play by Krasna: Sunday in New York' Opens at the Cort By HOWARD TAUBMAN. New York Times 30 Nov 1961: 40.
  3. Echoes and Unspoken Ideas By Walter Kerr. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 17 Dec 1961: G3.
  4. Callan p 88
  5. Callan p 89
  6. 2 SHOWS PLANNED BY BLOOM GARDEN: ' 1,000,000 Bank Note' and 'How Much?' Due in '63 ANTA Has New Project Three Attractions to Close Eva Gabor Starts a Firm Bouwerie Lane to Open in Fall Merrick Negotiates By SAM ZOLOTOW. New York Times 9 May 1962: 45.
  7. 'Sunday' Popular Los Angeles Times 4 June 1963: C6.
  8. Spada p 112

Notes
  • Callan, Michael Feeney (2011). Robert Redford : the biography. Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Freedland, Michael (1988). Jane Fonda : a biography. St. Martin's Press.
  • Kiernan, Thomas (1982). Jane Fonda : heroine for our time. Delilah Books.
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