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I Do! I Do! is a musical with a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt which is based on the Jan de Hartog play The Fourposter. The two character story spans 50 years, from 1895 to 1945, as it focuses on the ups and downs experienced by Agnes and Michael throughout their marriage. The set consists solely of their bedroom, dominated by the large fourposter bed in the center of the room.

For producer David Merrick, who initially presented the play on Broadway, I Do! I Do! was an ideal investment in that it had neither expensive sets and costumes nor a large cast. After four previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, opened on December 5, 1966, at the 46th Street Theatre and closed on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances. Mary Martin and Robert Preston were in the original cast. Carol Lawrence and Gordon MacRae played matinees starting in October 1967 and then replaced Martin and Preston in December 1967. Martin and Preston starred in a national tour, originally scheduled to play 27 cities for one year, starting in March 1968 in Rochester, New York. However, in February 1969 Martin became ill and the remainder of the tour was cancelled. Carol Burnett and Rock Hudson also starred in a national tour, appearing during Burnett's hiatus from her television show in 1973 and again in 1974 at The Muny, St. Louis, Missouri and in Dallas. The Australian production starring Jill Perryman and Stephen Douglass presented by J. C. Williamson's premiered at the Theatre Royal, Sydney on February 15, 1969. It subsequently toured to Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide from May 17, 1969, and Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne from June 21, 1969. In 1993 Jill Perryman reprised her performance alongside her husband Kevan Johnston at Old Brisbane Hotel, Perth from November 11 to December 18. A film adaptation, written by Champion and starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, was announced by United Artists in 1969, but the commercial failure of several expensive movie musicals around this time and waning interest in musical films in general, led to UA scrapping the film in the spring of 1970. A television version produced by Archer King with Lee Remick and Hal Linden was broadcast in 1982. A 1996 Off Broadway revival at the Lamb's Theatre was directed by Will Mackenzie and starred Karen Ziemba and David Garrison. It ran for 52 performances. The show is a popular production of regional and amateur theatre across the United States and Canada, because of the minimal cost of mounting it. A production at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre in Chanhassen, Minnesota ran for more than 20 years with leads David Anders and Susan Goeppinger, who eventually married during their run. This set the American record for a play running with the original cast.

In his review for The New York Times, Walter Kerr wrote that the stars were "great." Martin has "several funny little vocal tricks and always with that mellow sound that comes from her throat like red wine at room temperature." Preston is "at his untouchable best when the show asks him to be pompous, and blissfully obtuse." The work of the director is noted: "Then, courtesy of Gower Champion, there are all those engaging things the two do together one of them is literally the soft shoe to end all soft shoes, because it is done with no shoes at all." Kerr also wrote that the material was "on the whole barely passable, a sort of carefully condensed time capsule of all the cliches that have ever been spawned by people married and/or single the lyrics are for the most part remarkably plain spoken." In reviewing the new cast of Carol Lawrence and Gordon MacRae, Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that they "exerted a certain charm." The musical is "very slight indeed  Carol Lawrence was more than [Martin's] equal. She did the younger scenes with less cuteness and her acting had a depth unusual in a musical. Mr. MacRae has a better if more conventional voice."