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.STAGE TO SCREENS: A Chat with Theatre Veteran Jerry Orbach By Michael Buckley Paybill 16 Feb 2003 accessed 15 June 2013
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.
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.
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). Although there was an agreement for the film rights, Warner Brothers-Seven Arts never made the film. However, several of thestories by Bruce Jay Friedman would later became a variety of motion pictures, one example being Splash (1984).
References
External links Scuba Duba at Internet Off Broadway Database