The run closed May 20, 1979
- Opened
- April 17, 1977
- Closed
- May 20, 1979
- Performances
- 872
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 28th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of I Love My Wife 1 more that season
| 1977 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it18 named
Marjorie Barnes
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
Maureen Moore
Larry Riley
Christine Anderson
Brad Blaisdell
James Seymour
11 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Gene Saks
- Choreographer
- Onna White
- Producer
- Terry Allen Kramer & Harry Rigby
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
| Best Musical | Nominated |
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.
Speaker not recorded. Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 2 Part 1 the Jennifer Tepper, p. 103Jones 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.
Speaker not recorded. Before the Parade Passes By Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical Joh, p. 238- Stewart also put a black company into his long-running I Love My Wife [1977], and there was talk of doing the same for 42nd Street [1980]. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 443
- (Merrick bought out the colorful Kippy for 10% of the profits—e., $0—but not until a squad of underworld goons stormed into Merrick’s St. James Theatre headquarters one Saturday morning, terrorized the elevator man, and slashed the furnishings. Of the wrong office, as it happened; they got general manager Jack Schlisse… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 586
- "I Love My Wife, 89, 421, 457-60, 512, 564" More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1140
- (Merrick bought out the colorful Kippy for 10% of the profits—i.e., $0—but not until a squad of underworld goons stormed into Merrick’s St. James Theatre headquarters one Saturday morning, terrorized the elevator man, and slashed the furnishings. Of the wrong office, as it happened; they got general manager Jack Schlis… More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 585
- The reception of the following financially profitable shows fell somewhere between mixed and favorable. All were flawed, perhaps, but there was usually at least one element that more than made up for the weaknesses. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1072
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
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 Love My Wife at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.