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The Seven Year Itch (play)

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Written by
  
George Axelrod

Original language
  
English

Genre
  
Comedy

Playwright
  
George Axelrod

Date premiered
  
20 November 1952

Subject
  
Fidelity

First performance
  
20 November 1952

The Seven Year Itch (play)

Place premiered
  
Fulton Theatre New York City

Adaptations
  
The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Places premiered
  
Fulton Theatre, New York City

The Seven Year Itch is a 1952 three-act play written by George Axelrod starring Tom Ewell and Vanessa Brown.

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The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists.

The play was filmed in 1955 as The Seven Year Itch, directed and co-written by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, reprising his Broadway role.

The seven year itch


Productions

The stage version premiered at the Fulton Theatre on 20 November 1952, and closed there on 13 August 1955, after a run of 1,141 performances.

  • Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
  • Vanessa Brown as The Girl
  • Neva Patterson as Helen Sherman
  • Marilyn Clark as Miss Morris
  • Joan Donovan as Elaine
  • Robert Emhardt as Dr. Brubaker
  • Pat Fowler as The Voice of The Girl's Conscience
  • George Ives as The Voice of Richard's Conscience
  • George Keane as Tom Mackenzie
  • Johnny Klein as Ricky Sherman
  • Irene Moore as Marie What-Ever-Her-Name-Was
  • References

    The Seven Year Itch (play) Wikipedia