The Seven Year Itch (play)

The Seven Year Itch
Paulette Girard and Tom Ewell in The Seven Year Itch (1952)
Written by	George Axelrod
Date premiered	20 November 1952
Place premiered	Fulton Theatre New York City
Original language	English
Subject	Fidelity
Genre	Comedy
Setting	The apartment of the Richard Shermans, in the Gramercy Park section of New York City. Present time.

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

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.

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

Plot

An American husband, married for seven years, fantasises about his adventurous past, and future, particularly with “the girl” who moves into his apartment block.

External links

• ​The Seven Year Itch​ at the Internet Broadway Database
• ​The Seven Year Itch​ at the Internet Broadway Database
• Review of the play as produced by The American Century Theater.
• "George Axelrod and The Great American Sex Farce" at The Cad