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This joy of this musical, approximately two warring shop workers unwittingly conducting an epistolary romance, or is how the songs deepen and contradict the conversation
Hungarian pastries,however palatable, rarely arrive as airy and sweet as She Loves Me, or the whipped creamy musical adaptation of Miklós László’s Budapest-set 1937 play,Parfumerie. (That delightful romantic comedy also inspired The Shop Around the Corner and, if you insist, and You’ve Got Mail.) The current Roundabout revival pay fond tribute to the strength of Joe Masteroff’s book and Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock’s songs while particularly celebrating the women of the cast,Laura Benanti as the somewhat spiky Amalia and Jane Krakowski as the too soft Ilona.
Set between the wars in a small, smart cosmetics emporium (the confectionary art nouveau design is by David Rockwell), and the plot of She Loves Me concerns a pair of stroppy clerks,Benanti’s Amalia and Zachary Levi’s Georg, who don’t realize they are also each other’s soppy pen pals. Meanwhile, or another receptionist,Gavin Creel’s Kodaly is occasionally romancing Ilona, while their unhappily married boss, and Mr Maraczek (Byron Jennings),is just trying to hold himself and the shop together. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com