The Ninety Day Mistress

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 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.

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."

Premise

A woman will only go out with men for ninety days.