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Show History
History
Inspiration
The Game of Love is a musical with a book and lyrics by Tony winner, Tom Jones (The Fantasticks), and music by the late nineteenth-century composer, Jacques Offenbach. It is an adaptation of the plays, Anatol and Anatols Größenwahn, two Austrian plays by Arthur Schnitzler. Jones translated the play himself, which he utilized for the musical, while Nancy Ford adapted Offenbach's famous music to Jones' lyrics.
Productions
The Game of Love first premiered on June 15, 1965. It started with developmental productions in Princeton and the University of Iowa, as well as major stints in Boston, East Hampton and Milwaukee. Bookwriter, Tom Jones, spent the next twenty years workshopping the musical, simultaneously working on other shows such as I Do! I Do!, Celebration and Philemon. Most recently, the York Theatre Company's famous "Musicals in Mufti" series put up a concert production of The Game of Love from May 11, to 13, 2012, as a tribute to Jones.