By Ernio Hernandez
26 Oct 2009

Patrick Page and Paige Davis

Broadway veterans Paige Davis and Patrick Page — who are married offstage — will appear as the wedded couple onstage in the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical I Do! I Do! at The Old Globe in San Diego.

The show will play a special run at the California company's new Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Dec. 11-20. Opening night is slated for Dec. 12.

"We've been a couple for 14 years and married for eight of them, so we hope to be able to bring a special kind of truth to the marriage depicted in the show," stated "Paige and Page" in a release. The special engagement is part of the opening celebration of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. (The new Center includes the flagship Old Globe Theatre, the Karen and Donald Cohn Education Center and Hattox Hall, the re-designed Copley Plaza, a new seating pavilion and the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre.)

Based on The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog, the musical from the creators of The Fantasticks "spans five decades in the life of a married couple – from the nervousness of their wedding day to the wisdom of old age," as notes describe. The story of Michael and Agnes originally played on Broadway with Mary Martin and Robert Preston

Davis, known to television audiences as the host of "Trading Spaces," has played on Broadway in Boeing-Boeing and Chicago. Page was seen at The Globe in Cyrano De Bergerac and on Broadway in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical and The Lion King. The duo met while appearing in Beauty and the Beast.

The Old Globe currently presents the musical Sammy (through Nov. 8) and The Savannah Disputation (through Nov. 1). The company will continue its current season with Whisper House (Jan. 13-Feb. 21, 2010) and Lost in Yonkers (Jan. 23-Feb. 28, 2010).

Tickets to I Do! I Do! at The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way in San Diego, CA's Balboa Park, can be purchased by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE, at the box office or online at TheOldGlobe.org.