Scuba Duba
| Scuba Duba | |
|---|---|
| Original language | English |
| Written by | Bruce Jay Friedman |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Premiere | |
| Date | October 10, 1967 |
| Place | New Theatre, New York |
Scuba Duba is a 1967 comedy play from Bruce Jay Friedman which was a success off-Broadway starring Jerry Orbach, Judd Hirsch, Conrad Bain and Cleavon Little in a production that ran for 692 performances.[1]
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway.
Although the play did not run on Broadway, it had a second well received run in 1971 at the Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo starring F. Murray Abraham, John Newton, and Eve McVeagh.[2]
Original production
The show premiered on October 10, 1967, at the New Theatre in New York City. The setting for the play is a cháteau in the South of France (designed by set designer Peter Larkin) where an American family of three is visiting. The show can be summarized as a tense comedy as the husband discovers that his wife has left him for skin-diver there, and he and his daughter are dealing with the issue.[3]
Film version
In 1968, Warner Brothers-Seven Arts paid Bruce Jay Friedman $150,000 upfront for the film rights, along five percent of gross revenue after the film recoups 2.7 times the cost of the film negative (film production costs).[4] Although there was an agreement for the film rights, Warner Brothers-Seven Arts never made the film.[5] However, several of thestories by Bruce Jay Friedman would later became a variety of motion pictures, one example being Splash (1984).[6]
References
- ↑ STAGE TO SCREENS: A Chat with Theatre Veteran Jerry Orbach By Michael Buckley Paybill 16 Feb 2003 accessed 15 June 2013
- ↑ Hill, McGraw (1984). McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, Second edition. McGraw-Hill. p. 110.
- ↑ "The Theatre: Bruce Jay Freidman's Tense Comedy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
- ↑ "SCUBA DUBA' RIGHTS FOR FILM ARE SOLD". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
- ↑ "Films produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts".
- ↑ Weber, Bruce (June 3, 2020). "Bruce Jay Friedman, 90, Author With a Darkly Comic Worldview, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 23, 2026.
External links
- Scuba Duba at Internet Off Broadway Database