She Loves Me
She Loves Me is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and song texts by a book by Joe Masteroff, after the comedy Perfumery (Hungarian Illatszertár ) of the Hungarian author László Miklós. The drama has already served in the 1940s as a template for the Ernst Lubitsch film The Shop Around the, which in turn ( The Good Old Summertime ) formed the basis for the Hollywood musical with music to happiness. Harold Prince led the production and the director of the musical, which had on 23 April 1963 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Broadway debut. The term of the musicals disappointed with 302 ideas, whereas the score ( score) was successful in the charts, and its inclusion in 1964 received a Grammy. That same year, Jack Cassidy won a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The first performance in London's West End was on 29 April 1964 Lyric Theatre. The German -language premiere was on 19 September 1996 under the title She loves me in the Etablissement Ronacher in Vienna, in a translation by Frank Thannhäuser and Nico Rabenald.
Action
Time and Place: Budapest in 1934. For fifteen years, Georg Nowack works in Mr. Maraczeks perfumery. He is the first seller, is the best of terms with the boss and is a weekly guest in his house. In private, things are different. Therefore Nowack has started an anonymous letter friendship through a personal ad and immediately fell in love with the unknown. Just at this time turns his professional fortune. With the newly hired clerk Amalia Balash he is dealing with a quarrelsome, contradictory, always late coming person. Moreover, becomes cloudy, inexplicably, his relationship to Mr. Maraczek. In the run up to Christmas it comes to the debacle. On the very day of Nowacks first meeting with his beloved stranger, Miss Balash also has an appointment and insists to want to call it a day on time. Then requesting Maraczek who is dissatisfied with the state of the decoration work of Nowack overtime. One word leads to another; Nowack loses control and announces. At the appointed rendezvous at Café Imperial lacks the courage, he would deny himself actually. But when he sees Miss Balash sitting there, he's so confused that he sits down next to her, after which both fall instantly in dispute. On the same evening, Mr. Maraczeks clears up resentment against Nowack. Maraczek had sent a detective to spy his wife behind. But not Nowack is suspected as the secret lover of his wife, but his colleague Kodaly. In his office Maraczek then tried to take his own life. The second act shows conciliatory. To Mr. Maraczeks bedside Nowack gets the line of perfumery and transferred to dismiss the order Kodaly. After that, Nowack cares for its Amalia, who mourns the loss of her dear pen pal, so that the two eventually find each other.
Songs
Act 1: ( 1) Good Morning, Good Day / How are you ( 2) sounds while selling / The store is opened ( 3) Thank You, Madam / sales calls ( 4) Days Gone By / Once upon a time ( 5) No More Candy / No candy ( 6) Three letters / Three letters ( 7) Tonight at Eight / Today ' night at Eight ( 8) I Do not Know His Name / wot ' I know his name (9 ) perspective / Perspective (10 ) Goodbye George / farewell (11 ) Will He Like Me? / is it possible (12 ) Ilona (13 ) I Resolve / now it's over (14 ) A Romantic Atmosphere / Romantic undisturbed (15 ) Tango Tragique / Cafe Imperiale (16 ) Mr. Nowack, Will you Please? / Mr. Nowack, you geh'n now (17 ) Dear friend / My friend Act 2: (18 ) Try Me / All that I can ( 19) Where's My Shoe? / Where is merely my shoe (20) Vanilla Ice Cream / Vanilla Ice Cream (21 ) She Loves Me / She Loves Me (22 ) A Trip to the library / the walk to the library (23 ) Grand Knowing You / Nice to be here ( 24) Twelve Days to Christmas / A Christmas Carol