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“I Do! I Do!” CATCO Riffe Center’s Studio Two Theatre, 77 S. High St. 614-469-0939, www.catcoisthe­atre.org 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays (7:30 tonight), 2 p.m. Sundays and 11 a.m. Wednesdays through June 18 $40 Fridays and Saturdays, or $35 Sundays, $30 Thursdays, $20 Wednesdays; $15 for students two hours before showtime housewife and mother who is married to a writer.

“She likes playing with her husband ... teasing him about his ego and his work,” Wheeler said.

Bishara plays novelist Michael Snow.

“Because he’s so focused on his work,” Bishara said, “he’s got blinders on about what’s going on at home.”

The two actors perform 19 songs, accompanie­d by a pianist.

“Some pieces don’t need a 20-piece orchestra,” Bishara said. “Schmidt and Jones’ musiciansh­ip and simple writing style comes through.”

Perhaps the best-known song is the duet “My Cup Runneth Over,” a hit for singer Ed Ames in 1967.

“It’s beautiful, probably the show’s most-touching song,” Wheeler said.

Her favorite to sing, though, is “Flaming Agnes,” performed after Michael confesses to adultery.

“Her reaction is that she will become this adventurou­s woman, take all his money, divorce him and become a fun ne’er-do-well,” she said.

“She doesn’t actually do this. … She’s just angry.”

Of Bishara’s three solos, his favorite is “The Father of the Bride,” a comic complaint about the “idiot” his daughter is marrying.

Now that Bishara and Wheeler are parents — they have an 8-month-old daughter, Vivienne — “that song resonates,” he said.

This is the eighth co-starring stint for the couple and the first since CATCO’s 2014 production of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.”

“It’s wonderful,” Wheeler said, “to work on acting with someone you love.”

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