Under the title of La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, the play opened at the Théâtre Français on 27 April 1784 and ran for 68 consecutive performances, earning higher box-office receipts than any other French play of the eighteenth century [REF].
Beaumarchais' comedy was adapted into One Mad Day! a "screwball comedy" in Three Acts by William James Royce.