I Do! I Do!, 1966

The run closed June 15, 1968

Opened

December 5, 1966

Closed

June 15, 1968

Performances

560

Previews

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Theatre

Richard Rodgers Theatre

Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 40th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it2 named

Mary Martin1913–1990

Robert Preston1918–1987

2 of these 2 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Gower Champion

Producer

David Merrick

Orchestrations

by

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Around this production

I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, premieres at the 46th Street Theater and plays 560 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 27

• I Do! I Do! may have been the first Broadway musical ever to have a cast consisting entirely of two people, but since those people were Mary Martin and Robert Preston, no one could possibly have felt the need for anyone else on stage. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 244
• It was later adapted as the musical I Do! I Do!. The play, about events in the thirty-five-year married life of a couple simply named Agnes and Michael, ran for 632 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 303
• Gower Champion's first four musicals—Bye Bye Birdie (1960), Carnival (1961), Hello, Dolly! (1964), and I Do! I Do! (1966)—placed him at the top of his field, the undisputed Broadway Man of the Decade, an unstoppable talent. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 435
• Here’s a show that ran six months-plus solely on a catchy title (and the resulting half-million-dollar advance). And it would have lasted longer if not for the June 1968, Actors’ Equity strike, which closed Merrick’s longer-running I Do! I Do! (1966) as well. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 468
• Gower Champions first four musicals—Bye Bye Birdie (1960), Carnival (1961), Hello, Dolly! (1964), and I Do! I Do! (1966)—placed him at the top of his field, the undisputed Broadway Man of the Decade, an unstoppable talent. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 434

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for I Do! I Do! at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.