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I Love My Wife

Opened 1977

872 performances

Musical, Revolution

I Love My Wife

I Love My Wife is a musical with a book and lyrics by Michael Stewart and music by Cy Coleman, based on the French play Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine, written by Luis Rego and Didier Kaminka with the collaboration of Jean-Luc Voulfow and Jean-Paul Sèvres.

Music
Cy Coleman
Lyrics
Michael Stewart
Book
Michael Stewart

Productions2 productions: 1 on Broadway, 1 in the West End

1977
Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway Original, opened April 17, 1977, directed by Gene Saks
857 performances
1977
ProductionLondon

Songs7 songs

Love Revolution, Someone Wonderful I Missed, Sexually Free, Hey There, Good Times, Lovers on Christmas Eve, Everybody Today Is Turning On, I Love My Wife

Recordings 2 recordings

1977
I Love My Wife
I Love My Wife Atlantic SD 19107, released 1977
United States
1992
I Love My Wife (Original Broadway Cast)
I Love My Wife (Original Broadway Cast) DRG Records CDRG 6109, released 1992
United States

Licensing 1 entry

US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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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