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Synopsis
She Loves Me is a euphoric romantic comedy with a soaring score. Amalia and Georg work together at a modest Hungarian parfurmerie, and have disliked each other from the very beginning. He thinks she’s stuck up, and she thinks he’s arrogant and mean. But each rapturously writes to a lonely hearts pen pal when the work day is done, and it doesn’t take long for the audience to see that they’re in love without realizing it. Inevitably through some of the most iconic songs in the musical theatre canon ("Vanilla Ice Cream", "She Loves Me", "Will He Like Me?"), Georg and Amalia discover the truth as well and rejoice in their love for each other at the story’s sweet and musically delightful conclusion.
Show Information
- Book
- Joe Masteroff
- Music
- Jerry Bock
- Lyrics
- Sheldon Harnick
- Category
- Musical
- Age Guidance
- Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- First Produced
- 1963
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Settings
- Multiple Settings
- Time & Place
- a city in hungary in 1930
- Cast Size
- medium
- Orchestra Size
- Medium
- Dancing
- Optional
- Licensor
- Music Theatre International
- Ideal For
- College/University, Community Theatre, High School, Professional Theatre, Regional Theatre, Small Cast, Mostly Male Cast, Includes Adult, Late Teen, Mature Adult, Young Adult Characters, Medium Cast
Context
She Loves Me is the third in a string of adaptations of the play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszio. The first was the film The Shop Around The Corner featuring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. A second film adaptation followed, this time with musical numbers. It was called In The Good Old Summertime and starred Judy Garland. Parfumerie is also the source material for the Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks film, You’ve Got Mail.
She Loves Me premiered on Broadway in 1963, followed by a
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Act One
The scene opens on the exterior of Maraczek’s parfumerie on a lovely summer morning sometime in the 1930s. Ladislaw Sipos enters reading the paper. Teenage Arpad Laszlos joins him on his delivery bicycle, merrily extolling the loveliness of the day and trying very hard to be the most enthusiastic delivery boy in town.
As the two men converse over how stylish and dignified it is to work at Maraczek’s, Ilona Ritter enters. She is a sultry store clerk who also works at the
to read the plot for She Loves Me and to unlock other amazing theatre resources!Characters
| Name | Part Size | Gender | Vocal Part |
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Lead |
Female |
Soprano |
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Lead |
Male |
Baritone |
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Supporting |
Male |
Baritone |
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Supporting |
Female |
Mezzo-Soprano |
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Supporting |
Male |
Baritone |
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Supporting |
Male |
Baritone |
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Supporting |
Male |
Tenor |
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Featured |
Male |
Tenor |
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Ensemble |
Either Gender |
Spoken, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass |
Songs
Act One
- Prelude/Good Morning, Good Day - Georg, Arpad, Sipos, Ilona, Kodaly
- Sounds while Selling - Customers, Sipos, Kodaly, Georg
- Thank You, Madam - Clerks
- Days Gone By - Maraczek
- No More Candy - Amalia
- Three Letters - Amalia, Georg
- Tonight at Eight - Georg
- I Don't Know His Name - Amalia, Ilona
- Perspective - Sipos
- Goodbye George - Customers, Clerks
- Will He Like Me? - Amalia
- Ilona - Kodaly
- I Resolve - Ilona
- *A Romantic Atmosphere - Waiter
- Tango Tragique - Georg
- Mr. Novack, Will You Please? - Amalia, Waiter
- Dear Friend - Amalia
Act Two
- Try Me - Arpad
- Days Gone By (Reprise) - Maraczek
- Where's My Shoe? - Amalia, Georg
- Vanilla Ice Cream - Amalia
- She Loves Me - Georg
- A Trip to the Library - Ilona
- Grand Knowing You - Kodaly
- Twelve Days to Christmas - Carolers, Customers, Clerks
- Finale - Georg, Amalia
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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Key Terms
A Broadway musical written and produced between 1943 and 1965.
A short and usually humorous opera, generally incorporating more spoken dialogue than traditional opera.
The highest female vocal type, generally C4-C6.
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