On Stage This Weekend: The Boyfriend

 

  This weekend ARTS presents a classic Broadway musical, featuring an amazing cast and terrific dancing!

   It's The Boy Friend, a musical comedy by Sandy Wilson, and it's the show that made an American star out of Julie Andrews!

   Here's what you need to know:

WHEN:
May 23, 24, 30, 31 at 8 p.m. (Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m.)
May 25, June 1 at 2 p.m.

WHERE:
The ARTS Main Stage
in The Renaissance Center
900 8th Street in Huntington

THE PLOT:   Set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring Twenties, The Boy Friend is a comic pastiche of 1920s shows (in particular early Rodgers and Hart musicals such as The Girl Friend). The whole musical is set in the Villa Caprice where Polly, the girls (Maisie, Dulcie, Nancy, Fay), Hortense (the maid), and Mme Dubonnet live at Mme Dubonnet's School for Young Ladies. There, they meet and fall in love with various boys, as well as Polly's father Percival and Lord and Lady Brockhurst.

    The show contains such hit songs as: "The Boy Friend," "Won't You Charleston With Me?," "I Could Be Happy With You," "Sur La Plage," "Nicer in Nice," "Fancy Forgetting," "The 'You Don't Want To Play With Me' Blues," "Safety In Numbers" and more.

HOW MUCH:
Dinner & Show - $30
Show Only - $15
Call 304-733-2787 to reserve your tickets
Seating is limited for dinner

MENU:
Salad: Green salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing
Entrée: Fruit-stuffed pork loin with apricot glaze
Sides: Mashed potatoes, Roasted vegetables, Rolls
Dessert: Strawberry shortcake

Alcohol cannot be sold at this venue. However, you are more than welcome to bring a bottle of wine on your own.

CAST:
Polly Browne - Molly Maynard
Maisie - Jocelyn Clark Knapp
Dulcie - Tiffany N. McGuire
Fay - Joanna Berner
Nancy - Nora Joseph Ankrom
Madame Dubonnet - Karen Kelly Pruitt Hortense - Jinnie Knight
Bobby van Husen - Eric Wilson
Percival Browne - Mike Murdock
Tony - Michael Naglee
Lord Brockhurst - Todd L Green
Lady Brockhurst - Linda Reynolds
Marcel - Andrew Surber
Pierre - Tristan Reynolds
Alphonse - Nic Skaggs
Sophie - Jenn Naglee
Zazou - Sheila Meade
Gerard - Jonathan Blair Armstrong
Pepe - Matthew Johnson

Director: Gene Anthony
Choreographer: Constance Anthony
Music Director: William Murphy
Stage Manager: Luke Matlock
Dance Captain: Joanna Berner
Sound tech: Sarah Diamond Burroway
Props: Courtney Parsley
Costumes & Crew: Shirlee Idzakovich, Tiffany Caldwell Trent, Emma Grace Imes

ARTS seat cushions are now available to rent for $1 each, to help make your night with us more comfortable and enjoyable.

Concessions will also sold (water, candy, etc.) before the show and at intermission. Most things are only $1.