Boeing-Boeing [THEATER REVIEW]

Outdated and contrived it may very well be, but the Norris Theatre production of “Boeing-Boeing,” penned by French playwright Marc Camoletti in 1960, and smartly directed by James W. Gruessing today, is very funny and engaging. That it won a Tony Award in 2008 for Best Revival of a Play must certainly attest to the fact that this all-out farce has shed little of its charm or humor over the years. Bernard (David Engels) is an American architect living the highlife in Paris, suave and elegant on the surface, but really more con artist than connoisseur. He’s engaged to three stewardesses – to call them flight attendants would be an anachronism – and all of them work for a different airline: Gloria (Evie Hutton) is a Georgia peach for TWA; Gabriella (Suzanne-Elyse Choplin) flies with Alitalia; and Gretchen (Elaine Hayhurst) is a slim Valkyrie for Lufthansa. Each of the girls thinks she’s Bernard’s one and only, a ruse he’s been perpetuating with timetables and flight schedules. He also has a reluctant co-conspirator with Berthe (Tracy Lore), his housekeeper, who needs to keep menus and photographs in constant rotation.Now boarding: Elaine Hayhurst, Larry Raben, Evie Hutton, Tracy…

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