She Loves Me - a musical play at Kentwood Players

Description

Kentwood Players proudly presents the celebrated, multi-award-winning 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me, widely considered one of the most charming romantic comedies ever written. Created by the legendary team of Joe Masteroff (book), Jerry Bock (music), and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) - the same team behind Fiddler on the Roof - it opens at the Westchester Playhouse on Friday, November 13 through Sunday, December 12, 2026, directed by Brian Pirnat, with music direction by Elizabeth Bouton Summerer and choreography by Alison Boole, produced for Kentwood Players by Jeremy Palmer and Shawn K. Summerer and presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

Featured in the cast are Katie Cox and Kazuma Nakamura as Amalia and Georg with (in alphabetical order) Caitlin Callahan, Miguel Chavez, Antonio Duca, Connor Ewart, Samuel Goldman, Ben Hess, Lawrence Ingalls, Christine J’Mae, Alexa Kushner, Roy Okida, Lauren Oseas, Lyndsay Palmer, Elliott Plunkett, Nick Unquera, Rebecca Wade, Shelby Williams, and Geoffrey Douglas Wilson.

She Loves Me tells an intimate and touching story set in a 1930’s European perfumery where shop clerks Amalia and Georg, more often than not, don’t see eye-to-eye on anything. Both respond to a “lonely hearts advertisement” in the newspaper by addressing them to “Dear Friend” and now live for the love letters they exchange. But the identity of their admirers remains unknown. Join Amalia and Georg to discover the identity of their true loves… with all the twists and turns along the way!

If the "enemies-to-lovers" plot about anonymous pen pals who cannot stand each other in person sounds familiar, it is because this story has inspired several major Hollywood films, including The Shop Around the Corner (1940) starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, In the Good Old Summertime (1949) a musical version starring Judy Garland and Van Johnson, and You've Got Mail (1998) the modern tech adaptation starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.