The Ninety Day Mistress is a 1967 sex comedy play. The original production starred Walter Abel, Martin Milner and Dyan Cannon and ran for 24 performances.[1][2]
| The Ninety Day Mistress | |
|---|---|
| Written by | J.J. Coyle |
| Date premiered | 25 October 1967 |
| Place premiered | Biltmore Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | sex |
| Genre | comedy |
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. Goldman argued the play "hand enough laughs to succeed. What killed it, I think, was that it was a masquerade and not well enough disguised: the notion of constantly compulsively changing partners because it gets so dull if you don’t is basically a homosexual one, and I think the play was basically a homosexual play." Goldman said "if the girl had been cast as a boy, the play might have worked... People are always talking about how they'd like to see Virginia Woolf and Streetcar done all male. I'd like to add Ninety-Day Mistress to the list."[3]
Premise edit
A woman will only go out with men for ninety days.
References edit
- ^ Playbill for 1967 production accessed 15 June 2013
- ^ CLIVE BARNES (Nov 7, 1967). "Theater: A Fast Romance: Ruth Ford Appears in '90-Day Mistress'". New York Times. p. 49.
- ^ Goldman p 61
External links edit
- The Ninety Day Mistress at the Internet Broadway Database
- The Ninety Day Mistress at Playbill
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