A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has  remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late  first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well aware of Charles'  shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the  eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone's personalities clash,  Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over”  and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless  Charles into perpetuity.