Same Time, Next Year
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Same Time, Next Year (1975), a comedy by Bernard Slade. [
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1,453 perf.] In 1951 George ( Charles Grodin), a businessman from New Jersey, and Doris ( Ellen Burstyn), a California housewife, meet and enjoy one night in bed together in a motel. Although both are married, they find the affair so pleasant that they agree to meet each year in February for a brief tryst. During each annual rendezvous they grow to know each other better, exchange confidences, and even fall in love, but never, apparently, seriously consider divorce and marriage. The meetings keep up for twenty‐four years and, despite all the changes each has gone through, promise to go on indefinitely. The comedy was recognized as one of the better of the many one‐set, two‐character plays forced on the theatre by the crushing economics of the day.
Bernard SLADE (b. 1930) was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and raised in England but returned as a teenager to work in stock and television. He is the author of two other Broadway hits, the Jack
Lemmon vehicle
Tribute (1978) and
Romantic Comedy (1979), and the short‐lived
Special Occasions (1982).
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