Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:31pm

First of all, does anyone out there "of a certain age" remember Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy appearing on a PBS special in the late '70's or early '80's in which they performed a comedy routine wherein the wife took the words to "Tea for Two" to heart and woke her husband up at dawn, etc.?

Secondly, would anyone know who wrote that piece? I thought it was James Thurber, but I haven't been able to find it in any of his collections.

My theater group is doing a revue for Valentine's Day and I thought that would be a terrific piece to include.

Any help finding it would be greatly appreciated.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/8/07 at 9:36pm

Don't recall this particular scene, but could it have been either "Gin Game" or "Fox fire"? Those are the only two Broadway plays that I can recall these two marvelous actors doing at around that time.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 1:18am

It wasn't a scene from either play. Or any play that I know of. It was a, for lack of a better word, dramitization of a humor piece. He was the narrator/husband and she was the wife's lines.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 1:24am

Nope. It wasn't used in Foxfire.

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 11:07am

Could it have been a scene from, THE FOURPOSTER? A play they originated, and which the musical I DO, I DO is adapted from.