| Happiness is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls-Royce | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Arthur Alsberg Robert Fisher |
| Date premiered |
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| Place premiered | Ethel Barrymore Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | comedy |
| Setting | New York. The past, the present and the future. |
Happiness is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls-Royce is an American play. It ran for 4 previews and one performance. It was written by Arthur Alsberg and Robert Fisher who had worked together in television.
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. Goldman commented that the play:
Had all the time-proven materials of the sex-comedy genre, and I think that if the time were 40 years ago, it might have had an enormous success. The dedicated: young painter, a girl on her own: that was an exciting twenties notion. And the fact that this wacky but honest girl put out; well, you’ve got something there. That would have been good for a season’s run 40 years ago. But the by-now paralyzing familiarity, I think, killed it. Plus the fact that the basic notion—a man buys a Rolls-Royce—is kind of limited.
Premise
A young lawyer buys a Rolls Royce for his pushy wife. In the back is a yung female artist.
Cast of Broadway run
- Lee Bergere as Phil Gorshin
- Alexandra Berlin as Andrea Clithero
- Hildy Brooks as Myra Bagley
- Phoebe Dorin as Karen Kinsey
- Ray Fulmer as Jerry Ramsey
- Pat Harrington as Walter Bagley
- Marvin Lichterman as Chuck Kinsey
- John McGiver as Andrew McIntire
- Shimen Ruskin as Sanford Rutchik
References
- Playbill for 1968 production accessed 15 June 2013
- Goldman, William (1969). The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. p. 60.