 Like "Hair" and "A Chorus Line" before it, "The Human Comedy" garnered reviews favorable enough to prompt Papp to transfer it a larger, uptown Broadway house.After twenty previews, with the Off-Broadway cast and creative team, it opened on April 5, 1984 at the Royale Theatre, where it ran for 13 performances.Frank Rich's critique of the original production had been positive, but "The New York Times" policy prohibited re-reviewing shows unless they were changed substantially, so his earlier comments were overshadowed by those damaging ones made more recently by Clive Barnes, among others.