Kristin Shoop Jenko and Jim Fitzpatrick
Kim Misci
She Loves Me is a hopeful work. Perfume shop employees Georg Nowack (Jim Fitzpatrick) and Amalia Balash (Kristin Shoop Jenko) are constantly fighting at work but unaware that they have responded to each other's lonely-heart ads--they've used aliases--and become secret friends. By the end of the play they discover the truth and love triumphs. Amalia sings:
Ice cream. He brought me ice cream!
Vanilla ice cream! Imagine that!
Ice cream, and for the first time we were together without a spat!
Ilona (Ann McCoy), another shop employee, also finds love, at the library: A trip to the library has made a new girl of me.
Here's to vanilla ice cream--Sheila Rehrig made sure there was plenty at the production party-- libraries, brilliant musical director Brian Rehrig, director J. Mark Baumhardt, the crew and designers, and a cast that sang marvelously.
At the production party I asked whether I could take pictures. "We're actors!" someone answered.
left, Matthew Kossack; David Herder
Sheila Rehrig hosted the production party
left, Ann Mccoy; music director, Brian Rehrig
James Grana
Melissa Fenton
center, director J. Mark Baumhardt
This looks like fun...
ReplyDeletehow nice for them that you were there!
xxo
It was fun, and I used to hate musical comedies, couldn't understand why someone would suddenly burst into song; I was all about dialogue, monologue--tragedy.
ReplyDeletenice pictures from a nice party; it looks like it at least.
ReplyDeleteI try to imagine you behind the camera, while all the people smile at you.
It's always kind of mystic; I read your blog, and there are always proofs that you move, that you are alive,;-) and I always try to get a feeling for the 'living person' behind the blog.
Can you understand that?
All the best from cologne to you, Mim, smilla
Smilla, yes I do understand. What we photograph reveals something of us, though we don't photograph ourselves.
ReplyDeleteThe party was a happy one, in part because the play was a success, but mostly because the people were outgoing and charming.
do ypu know zhe movie "8 femmes" by Francois Ozon?
ReplyDeleteI didn't like plays or movies either with people bursting out in a song, like you wrote. But this one is really wonderful and worth seeing it. With wonderful actresses...simply great, and stunning costumes.
sorry for all my 'written mistakes' ...
ReplyDeleteDon't worry about mistakes, Smilla! I'll be sure to order film on Netflix.
ReplyDeleteWarm regards to you in Cologne, despite the frost warning in the Boston area.
I find the play's leitmotif alluring, how two people who bicker constantly can fall for each other when their eyes are covered (metaphorically speaking). It says a lot about presentation, truth and of course... love.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks.
Greetings from London.