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Boeing Boeing

"This latest edition of a play maned for an aircraft soars right out of its time zone and into some unpolluted stratosphere of classic physical comedy."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1960s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2008 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play
Revised 2008 Broadway Revival Edition.

This 1960's French Farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian Lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancees, each beautiful airline hostesses with frequent "layovers." He keeps "one up, one down and one pending" until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris and Bernard's apartment at the same time.
REVIEWS:

"This latest edition of a play named for an aircraft soars right out of its time zone and into some unpolluted stratosphere of classic physical comedy. Propelled by the same gutsy spirit that animated Commedia dell'Arte and the silent films of Keaton, Chaplin and Lloyd, [this] may be earthy, but it's seldom earthbound."

 The New York Times

"This is, by many an airmile, the funniest show on the London stage."

 Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

"I cannot remember experiencing a West End evening of such sheer, silly, comic pleasure."

Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

"Fasten your seatbelts for the most deliriously funny flight of your life."

Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday

Premiere Production: Boeing Boeing was first presented February 2nd, 1965, at the Cort Theatre, in New York City, by Martin Lee, by arrangement with Hal Wallis Productions and John Gale Productions Ltd. The director was Jack Minster.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 4F

  • BERNARD - a Parisian bachelor
    GLORIA - an American air hostess
    BERTHE - Bernard's housekeeper
    ROBERT - a friend of Bernard's
    GABRIELLA - an Italian air hostess
    GRETCHEN - a German air hostess

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    Revised 2008 Broadway Revival Edition.

    This 1960's French Farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian Lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancees, each beautiful airline hostesses with frequent "layovers." He keeps "one up, one down and one pending" until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris and Bernard's apartment at the same time.

    		$24.95

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