PCRT Presents: She Loves Me April 12, 2013

Apr 12-28, Fridays & Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 2pm

Pacific Coast Repertory Company presents She Loves Me, the musical adaptation of Parfumerie, the play which also inspired the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan classic "You've Got Mail."

Funny, intelligent, honest and sentimental, She Loves Me is a warm romantic comedy of endearing innocence with a touch of old world elegance. The entire musical is so charming and well-constructed that New York Magazine recently deemed it one of the best musicals ever written. In fact, at the time of its Broadway premier, She Loves Me was widely expected to be a bigger hit than that other show by the same lyrics-and-music writing team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Fiddler On the Roof.

Based on the much-adapted script by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo, She Loves Me is the story of Georg Nowack and Amalia Balash, co-workers who unwittingly meet through a Lonely Hearts column. Unaware that they are secret pen pals, they constantly bicker as things don't go well in the shop. Complicating things further is Georg's boss who suspects Georg of having an affair with his wife. Other characters bring life and tension to the story, as Amalia and Georg find their way to each other.

If the plot sounds familiar, no wonder. Among numerous other adaptations, the play was immortalized on celluloid in the 1940 James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan film "The Shop around the Corner," and again in the 1998 Nora Ephron version "You've Got Mail" starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

Director and choreographer Lois Grandi returns to PCRT for this new production, having garnered numerous accolades for Chicago, her maiden production with the company.

* A Free Inside the Show discussion with the actors and director will take place after the Sunday Matinee performance on April 14, 2013.

Official Website: http://www.pcrtproductions.org