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She Loves Me  Book by Joe MasteroffLyrics by Sheldon Harnick Music by Jerry Bock Georg and Amalia are two bickering clerks in a European perfumery in the 1930s. They each take secret comfort in a bit of romance with anonymous pen pals - never suspecting that they are actually writing to each other! Sound like the movie "You've Got Mail"? You're right - it was based on this romantic musical comedy. Tickets: $27 general / $21 Student, Senior, Educator Purchase Tickets Online or call our box office at 425.881.6777 Seating reservations are for inventory only. Seating is not assigned. |
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Susanna Wilson Music Director: Kevin Miller Stage Manager: Crystal Neitzel Set & Props Designer: Tellier Killaby Lighting Designer: Rob Falk Costume Designer: Laurie Roberts Build and Paint Crew: Rob Fiser, Tellier Killaby, Jeanette Gaines, Ann Fiser, Shanie Holman, Amanda Nitzsche CAST Arpad Laszlo: Peter Castro Ladislav Sipos: Mark Waldstein Ilona Ritter: Alyussa Keene Steven Kodaly: Matt Shimkus Georg Nowack: Jon Lutyens Mr. Maraczek: Dale Bowers Amalia Balash: Anne Kennedy Keller/Ensemble: Isaiah Crowson Busboy/Ensemble: James Frasca Waiter/Ensemble: Sean Mitchell Customers/Ensemble: Stephanie McBain, Emily rose Shtowell, Celina Hilbrand BAND Keyboard: Kevin Miller Violin: Idris Hsi Cello: Steven Weber French Horn: Andy Rich Trumpet: Dave Spangler Flute/Piccolo: Liz McDaniel / Lisa Hedley (February 12, 26) Woodwinds: Jamie Clark / Nicholas Kosuk (February 14, 26, 28, March 5, 6) Director’s Notes This show holds a special place in the hearts of many musical theatre aficionados. Yet its original Broadway run in 1963 wasn’t very long. None of its songs have become standards. There are no large-scale song and dance numbers. There is not a single number designed to be a “star turn,” but instead, each forwards the action of the play. And although it was nominated for 5 Tony awards, it only won one (Jack Cassidy, for his portrayal of “Kodaly”). So why does this story quietly and insistently persist, a rare and delicate flower amongst harder-edged razzle-dazzle like Chicago and Forty-Second Street?I believe that this delicacy is precisely the reason that She Loves Me continues to enchant and delight audiences more than 40 years later. It is a minuet in a sea of clog dancers. Without being overly sentimental, She Loves Me quietly enfolds you instead of screaming for your attention. And it tells a story of bygone days. The play this musical is based on, Parfumerie, was written in Hungary in the early 1930’s, after the first World War and before WWII. This history takes on a special resonance knowing that Budapest lost approximately a third of its population during Hitler’s reign; many of these characters would have perished. In light of everything that has happened in Eastern Europe since, She Loves Me seems to speak to a shared humanity that is all too easily forgotten today. As critic Frank Rich wrote about the 1993 revival, “its unsentimental romantic emotions never age. As Georg and Amalia gradually overcome their cynicism and melt with affection, we melt too in spite of our own cynical 1993 instincts. She Loves Me turns out to be one love affair that, against Broadway’s odds, has grown only deeper with time.” Susanna Wilson, director |
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