| The Road to Rome | |
| Setting: | Rome |
| Place: | Playhouse Theatre |
| Orig Lang: | English |
| Genre: | historical comedy |
The Road to Rome is a play by American author Robert Sherwood. The plot revolves around Hannibal's attempt to capture Rome during the Second Punic War. It was Sherwood's first published play.[1]
The play opened on January 31, 1927 at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City starring Jane Cowl and Philip Merivale and was considered a success, running until the next January.[2] [3] It was subsequently revived two months later at the same theater, running from March 21, 1928 until Jun 1929.[2]
In 1930 it was played in Melbourne, Australia, by the Edith Taliaferro company as The Road to Romance.[4]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the play in 1933 as a potential starring vehicle for Clark Gable.[5] In 1955, the play was adapted for the screen in musical version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Jupiter's Darling.