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THS to play nostalgic romantic comedy for spring production

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Springtime is the season for flowers, candy, and — this year, at least — romantic theater.

The Tooele High School drama department will unveil its production of the popular Broadway musical “She Loves Me” next week, just in time for the season of puppy love, if just a little late for the traditional holiday of romance.

“If our last show Sweeney Todd was Halloween, then this show is a Valentine,” said Scott Henrie, THS drama director.

“She Loves Me” is the well-known 1963 musical adaptation of a 1937 Hungarian play called “Parfumerie” — the basic plot of which has remained the fodder for various romantic comedies for decades.

In “She Loves Me,” Georg, the top-selling clerk at cosmetics and gifts shop in Budapest, is falling in love with an anonymous pen pal, his “dear friend,” he met through a lonely hearts ad.

The shop, Maraczek’s Parfumerie, is looking to grow its profits and customer base in a struggling economy, and Mr. Maraczek orders a new product — a musical cigarette case. Georg derides the new product, but his boss is confident they will sell by the end of the day.

Enter Amalia, who just lost her job as a clerk at another cosmetics store. She begs Mr. Maraczek for a job, but the shop’s owner insists there are no openings until Amalia manages to sell one of the cigarette cases by telling a customer that it is really a candy box with a little jingle to remind the opener not to eat so much candy. Impressed, Mr. Maraczek hires Amalia on the spot.

Georg immediately resents Amalia, and the two continue to bicker for months while sharing letters from their anonymous lovers with their coworkers. Meanwhile, love is in the air and one of Georg’s fellow clerks, the naive Ilona, begins to fall for another clerk, Steven, a renowned womanizer.

But not everything at the shop is going smoothly — tensions continue to rise between Georg and Mr. Maraczek, who begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair with Georg.

The THS production will feature Payton Bowen and Chad Henwood as Georg; Haley Alexander and Kat Hawley as Amalia; Eli Unruh and Nathan Wallenmeye as Mr. Maraczek; Ashton Olson and Eli Unruh as Steven; and Violet Powell, Leah Taylor and Mary Jane Ungor as Ilona.

The show will debut at 7 p.m. next Monday, with additional performances on April 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 28. There will be no matinee for this production; all performances begin at 7 p.m.

Tickets may be purchased at the door and cost $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, and $3 for children under 10.

Note: The Broadway play “She Loves Me” includes a scene portraying an attempted suicide. 


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