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Shows · I Love My Wife · Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1977

I Love My Wife, 1977

Opened April 17, 1977

Closed May 20, 1979

857 performances

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Original

Broadway

I Love My Wife

Of the productions that opened in the 1970s, this had the 29th longest run.

Other stagings of I Love My Wife 1 more

1977
ProductionLondon

Who was in it18 named

Marjorie Barnes
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
Larry Riley
Christine Anderson
Brad Blaisdell
James Seymour

Creative team

Director
Gene Saks
Choreographer
Onna White
Producer
Terry Allen Kramer & Harry Rigby

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

1977
I Love My Wife
I Love My Wife Atlantic SD 19107, released 1977
United States

1 more exist for other runs of this show: see I Love My Wife for all of them.

Around this production

Her debut came in in 1977 in Cy Coleman’s I Love My Wife, a musical satire on wife-swapping. She was recognized with a Theatre World Award that year. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 305

For I Love My Wife, it was love at first sight for me with Joanna Gleason. I had never met anybody as funny or as glamorous in one package.

Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 2 Part 1 the Jennifer Tepper, p. 103

Jones explains that this was the “one song I wanted to write for my wife. It was to be a present for her. I wrote the lyrics and gave them to Harvey. I told him we’d probably never use it in the show, but I wanted to surprise her.

Before the Parade Passes By Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical Joh, p. 238

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