The Liberty Theatre Company presents the hit-Broadway farce, Boeing Boeing, July 28 – July 13 at the historic Liberty Theater.
In Boeing Boeing, an hilarious bedroom farce, a self-styled Parisian lothario has Italian, German, and American fiancees, each an airline hostess with frequent, but never intersecting, layovers, until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris at the same time. What results is a madcap, wild, silly night full of theatrical door-slamming fun.
“The wonderful thing about Boeing Boeing is that it is just sheer play and fun and silliness. The perfect morsel for a fun summer night at the theater,” says Veronica Moonhill, the LA-based director who is back after last December’s radio-play adaptation of Hammond Castle. “In the tradition of true farces like Noises Off, this play ramps up into ever wilder, ever more chaotic comedic madness until the audience will be weeping with laughter.”
Like many of TLTC’s productions, Boeing Boeing brings together a world-class blend of local talent – local favorites Andrew Alburger, Hannah Nye, and Naomi McDougall Jones – with out-of-town cast brought in for the occasion – Timothy C. Goodwin and Chris Harcum from New York City and Tiara Thompson from Challis.
“This is my first time in Idaho,” says Goodwin, who stars as Bernard, the wayward Parisian bachelor, “And I cannot believe how beautiful the land is, how kind and welcoming the community, and how outstanding the theatre. It’s such a treat to get to come out here and work with such incredible folks in such an idyllic setting.”
Boeing Boeing originated as a French play written by Marc Camoletti that was then adapted to English by Beverley Cross in 1962 and by 1991 had become the longest-running French play throughout the world. The original play was adapted into a 1965 film starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis and was then updated into a hit 2008 Broadway production starring Mark Rylance, Christine Baranski, Gina Gershon, Bradley Whitford, and Kathryn Hahn, which won two Tony’s, including for Best Revival of a Play.
“I got to see the Mark Rylance Broadway production when I was in acting school in New York,” says TLTC Executive/Artistic Director, Naomi McDougall Jones, who also plays the German flight attendant in this production, “And I remember it to this day. It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.”
McDougall Jones wasn’t the only one who thought so. The revival earned rave reviews. “I cannot remember experiencing an evening of such sheer, silly, comic pleasure,” wrote the Evening Standard. “Fasten your seatbelts for the most deliriously funny flight of your life,” said Mail on Sunday. “This is, by an air mile, the funniest show on the London stage,” enthused the Daily Telegraph.
Boeing Boeing runs from June 28 – July 13th at The Liberty Theater at 110 N Main Street in Hailey. Audiences can purchase individual tickets or – between now and July 15 – purchase a TLTC 2024/25 Season Pass that will guarantee them tickets to this and all five productions in the upcoming season. Audiences can spring for a Premium Pass for $1,500, which will entitle them to special behind-the-scene peaks and VIP perks or they can take advantage of TLTC’s unique Pay-What-You-Feel Season Pass and pay any amount of money they wish in exchange for general admission tickets to all five of the season’s productions. Individual tickets as well as Season Passes can be purchased at LibertyTheatreCompany.org. For questions, call 208-582-8388.