{{Short description|1967 play}} {{Infobox play |name = A Minor Adjustment |image = |image_size = |caption = |writer = Eric Nicol |chorus = |characters = |mute = |setting = |premiere = 6 October 1967 |place = |orig_lang = English |series = |subject = |genre = |web = }} '''''A Minor Adjustment''''' is a 1967 play.<ref>[http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8051/A-Minor-Adjustment Playbill for original production] accessed 16 June 2013</ref> It was written by Eric Nicol, a Canadian humorist. The play was originally titled '''''Like Father, Like Fun''''' and realised to audiences in 1966 in Vancouver.<ref>{{cite news|author=Jacob Siskind|work=The Montreal Gazette|date=October 10, 1968|title=Eric Nicol licks his post-Broadway wounds in public|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UY0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GbkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=744%2C2269804A|access-date=2 September 2014}}</ref>
The title was then changed in 1967.<ref>{{cite news|author=Tom Hawthorne|work=The Globe and Mail|year=2011|title=Eric Nicol: Vancouver humorist, columnist, novelist|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/eric-nicol-vancouver-humorist-columnist-novelist/article580848/?page=all|access-date=2 September 2014}}</ref>
The original production cost $72,000 and closed after 13 performances.<ref>{{Cite news|title=ALBEE ADAPTATION ACQUIRED BY FOX: Film Rights to 'Everything in Garden' Bring $300,000|author=Sam Zolotow|date=Oct 9, 1967|work=New York Times|page=60}}</ref> It received a poor review in ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Theater: 'A Minor Adjustment': Redfield in Comedy at the Brooks Atkinson|author=Clive Barnes|date=Oct 8, 1967|work=New York Times|page=84}}</ref>
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book ''The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway''.
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