I Do! I Do!
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander
Choreography by James Kinney
Musical Direction by Ben Toth
December 11 - 20, 2009
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
The story of Michael and Agnes and their 50 years of marriage famously takes place around a large four-poster bed and introduced the standard, “My Cup Runneth Over.” Written as a star vehicle for theater legends Mary Martin and Robert Preston by the creators of The Fantasticks, the original Broadway production of I Do! I Do! received seven Tony Award nominations, with Preston winning Best Actor. Since then, such luminaries as Carol Lawrence and Robert Goulet, and Carol Burnett and Rock Hudson have enjoyed success in the musical two-hander. And now the Globe’s “cup runneth over” as Paige Davis (television’s “Trading Spaces” and Broadway’s Chicago) and Patrick Page (The Globe’s Cyrano De Bergerac and Broadway’s The Lion King) take their turn at this funny and heartwarming musical about the joy, struggles, humor and passion that is every marriage. |
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Paige Davis as Agnes and Patrick Page as Michael in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Patrick Page as Michael and Paige Davis as Agnes in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Paige Davis as Agnes and Patrick Page as Michael in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
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Paige Davis as Agnes in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Paige Davis as Agnes in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Paige Davis as Agnes in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
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Patrick Page as Michaelin the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Patrick Page as Michaelin the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Patrick Page as Michaelin the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
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Patrick Page as Michael and Paige Davis as Agnes in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Patrick Page as Michael and Paige Davis as Agnes in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
Patrick Page as Michael and Paige Davis as Agnes in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical, I Do! I Do!, at The Old Globe, Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz. |
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CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
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Paige Davis (Agnes Snow)
BROADWAY: Gloria in Boeing, Boeing; Roxie Hart in Chicago. NATIONAL TOURS: Charity in Sweet Charity; Babette in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Roxie Hart in Chicago; The Vagina Monologues. REGIONAL: Favorite roles include Maria in The Sound of Music at The Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, April in Company at Missouri Repertory Theatre, Val in A Chorus Line at Austin Music Theatre, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Chicago Cultural Center. Other regional credits include Hello Dolly!, with Nell Carter, Pippin, Oklahoma, West Side Story and Camelot. CABARET: Taking A Chance on Love. TV: Four seasons as host of TLC’s Trading Spaces (Emmy Nomination), plus guest host and/or appearances on The View, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, The Wayne Brady Show, Good Day Live, The Martha Stewart Show, The Dr. Phil Show, Gameshow Marathon, The Oprah Winfrey Show and a special primetime episode of A Wedding Story among many others. FILM: Being Michael Madsen. TRAINING: Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. For more information go to www.paigedavis.com.
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Patrick Page (Michael Snow)
THE OLD GLOBE: Cyrano De Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company, Jeffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (San Diego Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award). BROADWAY: Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Scar in The Lion King, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (with Denzel Washington), Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Marley in A Christmas Carol, The Kentucky Cycle. OFF-BROADWAY: Title role in Rex, Richard II. Regional: Macbeth in Macbeth and Iago in Othello (Helen Hayes Award) at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Sergius in Arms and the Man at Long Wharf; Henry V, Oberon, Richard III at Pioneer Theatre Company; plus leading roles (including Hamlet, Brutus, Mercutio, Benedick, Richard II, Dracula, Antony, etc.) at Seattle, Indiana and Missouri Reps, ACT, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Oregon, New York, Utah, Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, and many more. PLAYWRIGHT: Swansong (Off-Broadway, Kennedy Center, Seattle, etc.). TV/FILM: "Law & Order: SVU,"" One Life to Live," "All My Children", The Substance of Fire. FAVORITE ROLE: Husband to Paige Davis. www.patrickpageonline.com. |
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Tom Jones (Book and Lyrics)/Harvey Schmidt (Music)
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theatre at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in May 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in the history of the American stage and one of the most frequently produced musicals in the world. It is currently running in a successful revival in New York. Their first Broadway show, 110 in the Shade, was successfully revived a few years ago by the New York City Opera and is scheduled for a new Broadway production this April, produced by the Roundabout Theatre, starring Audra MacDonald. I Do! I Do!, their two character musical starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, was a success on Broadway and is frequently done around the country and the world. (One production, in Minneapolis, played for twenty-two continuous years with the same two actors in the leading roles.) For several years, Jones and Schmidt worked privately at their theatre workshop, concentrating on small-scale musicals in new and often untried forms. The most notable of these efforts were Celebration, which moved to Broadway, and Philemon, which won an Outer Critics Circle Award. They contributed incidental music and lyrics to the Off-Broadway play Colette, starring Zoe Caldwell, then later did a full-scale musical version under the title Collette Collage. In 1998, The Show Goes On, a musical revue featuring their theatre songs and starring Jones and Schmidt, was presented at the York Theatre, and Mirette, their musical based on the award-winning children’s book, was premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. In addition to an Obie Award and the 1992 Special Tony Award for The Fantasticks, their “stars” were added in 1999 to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
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