Productions1 on Broadway
| 1966 | 46th Street Theatre Original. December 5, 1966 · Gower Champion | 560 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International I Do! I Do! matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature32 passages
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p244
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. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p303
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p435
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p468
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p434
Tony nominations: Best Direction of a Musical, Carnival!, 1962; Best Direction of a Musical, I Do! I Do!, 1967. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p193
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