“PETER lorgensen (from left), Don Mackay and Katey Wright 2 are all first rate i in the Arts Club Theatre Company
production of the musical She Loves Me now playing at the Stanley Theatre.

i She Loves Mc, book by Joe

Masteroff, music ‘by Jerry © a

Bock, : lyrics., by: Sheldon -
Harnick. An® Arts: Club
“Theatre Company: produc- ”
ticn at: the Stanley Theatre
directed by Morris Panych:

‘oo: Dee: ‘31. Box offi ice:
687-1644.

Hun: faywright
Miklos es Play igh oni
inal story: (Par,
1930s. Ernst Lubitsch

‘Last year’s Meg... .:
Ryan/Tom Hanks movie’
Youve Got Mail was yer"
another 5 in on Laszlo and ©:

She Loves Me was origically j

produced in'1963 with the
Fiddler on the Roof team of
Jerry Bock and Sheldon

Harnick providing thé music -
and lyrics and had successful’.
Broadway and London ‘runs, °°

1 knew. none of this when
the musical: at
Studio 58 a few 5 years age

“and was utterly enchanted by

> the simple love story of

* crossed wires and the rather

~ odd, to my tin ear, musical
fefrains that stayed in my

- head for days afterwards.

This time around I failed
to engage with the show to

* the same degree and | am-

still puzzling over why that
might be.
It looks gorgeous, moves

“-| smoothly, has a great little .-
“orchestra (in the front row!)
* under the talented musical

direction of Bruce. Kellett; .
and utilizes actors I like such

. as North Vancouver’s Peter

Jorgensen and Don Mackay,

* the rubber-jointed James

Fagan Tait and Vancouver’ s"
most overlooked treasure, .” :
Katey Wright. :

: Most people I have spo aa

ken to about this production
have loved its elegant style
and have regularly used the
word charming to describe ‘it,
just as I did on first acquain-
tance. So you probably w will
too.

Yet FE found myself’ con-
stantly outside the show,
admiring its pictures and
poses, but outside nonethe-
less. Retrospectively, 1 feel
like 1am holding a gemstone

up to the light, marvelling at

its cold hard light but moved
not one whit.
Mesuy, [ think I was miss-,

- ing the intimacy of the love
“story. Perhaps this is a musi-'.

cal jewel best kept in a small:
setting. Too many flashing
sparkles around the main
gem can distract rather than
enhance. :

tAAK

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