The Boyfriend

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The Jazz Age lives on in Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend,a light romantic spoof of 1920s musical comedy. Written in the fifties as “a new musical of the twenties,” this is still considered the most successful and witty of the send-up musicals.

Blithe Spirit

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The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati.