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La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts amp McCoy Rigby Entertainment will present the Tony Award-winning 2008 Best Play Revival, hilarious, sexy, non-stop comedy, Boeing-boeing, written by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross amp Francis Evans and directed by Jeff Maynard. Boeing-boeing opened on January 19 and runs through Sunday, February 10, 2013 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada. Check out photos from inside opening night below...

There was a mad crush of premieres this week on Broadway — seven in all, vying to open just under the eligibility wire for this June’s Tony Awards. (Nominations will be announced Tuesday, May 1.) It’s been a surprisingly deep year in each of the four major categories (play, play revival, musical, musical revival).

• A Streetcar Named Desire Despite the occasional jarring moments in director Emily Mann’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ drama — which features TV stars Blair Underwood (The Event) as Stanley and Nicole Ari Parker (Soul Food) as Blanche DuBois — EW critic Lisa Schwarzbaum found the production “still...

Remember Boeing-Boeing, the sixties farce by Marc Camoletti revived in technicolor by Matthew Warchus a year ago? Well, imagine that Gallic trifle without the snap and savor of Warchus’s direction, without star turns from Mark Rylance and Kathryn Hahn, and without the Technicolor, and you’ve got the wan door-slammer currently playing on the Roundabout’s now-officially cursed American Airlines stage. Don’t Dress for Dinner is a comedy written by Camoletti towards the end of his career, which might explain why the gags all unfold at half-speed, as if forestalling mortality, and at maximum spasticity — there’s more desperate flopping on display than is normally observed in an entire season of Duke basketball.In a wearying round of interchangeable paramours — a man, a wife, a mistress, a cook, her lover, a mistaken identity or two (it’s French, okay?) — philandering Bernard (Adam James) has invited his bodacious lover...

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, presents the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Patricia Kalember as Jacqueline, Adam James as Bernard, David Aron Damane as George and Jennifer Tilly as Suzanne with Spencer Kayden as Suzette. Don't Dress For Dinner is adapted by Robin Hawdon and directed by John Tillinger. Don't Dress For Dinner began previews on March 30 and opens tonight, April 26, 2012 at the American Airlines Theatre.

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, presents the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Patricia Kalember as Jacqueline, Adam James as Bernard, David Aron Damane as George and Jennifer Tilly as Suzanne with Spencer Kayden as Suzette. Don't Dress For Dinner is adapted by Robin Hawdon and directed by John Tillinger. Don't Dress For Dinner will began previews on March 30 and opens officially tomorrow, April 26, 2012 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway. This will be a limited engagement through June 17, 2012.BroadwayWorld brings you performance highlights below...

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, will present the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Patricia Kalember as Jacqueline, Adam James as Bernard, David Aron Damane as George and Jennifer Tilly as Suzanne with Spencer Kayden as Suzette. Don't Dress For Dinner is adapted by Robin Hawdon and directed by John Tillinger.Check out interviews with the cast and creative team below...

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, will present the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Patricia Kalember as Jacqueline, Adam James as Bernard, David Aron Damane as George and Jennifer Tilly as Suzanne with Spencer Kayden as Suzette. Don't Dress For Dinner is adapted by Robin Hawdon and directed by John Tillinger.The cast and creative team just met the press and BroadwayWorld brings you full photo coverage of the festivities below...

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, will present the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Patricia Kalember as Jacqueline, Adam James as Bernard, David Aron Damane as George and Jennifer Tilly as Suzanne with Spencer Kayden as Suzette. Don't Dress For Dinner is adapted by Robin Hawdon and directed by John Tillinger.The company just met the press and BroadwayWorld was there for the big event. Check out interviews with the cast and creative team below...

With an intoxicating script by Marc Camoletti, Boeing-Boeing tells the tale of Bernard, an American playboy in swinging '60s Paris who juggles three flight-attendant fiances-one American, one German, and one Italian. With the help of airline timetables and a phenomenally efficient housekeeper, he convinces each that she is his only love. But then a fast new Boeing jet puts the flight attendants on a collision course, hurtles Bernard's cunning deception towards disaster, and provides lift-off for laugh after laugh.

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Christiane Schmidtmer has a layover with Jerry Lewis (l.) and Tony Curtis in Boeing Boeing.

The 1965 bedroom farce film Boeing Boeing, starring Jerry Lewis (The Nutty Professor) and Tony Curtis (Insignificance), is actually based on the 1960 French play of the same name by Marc Camoletti. (The play was revived in London’s West End and on Broadway a few years back to much success.)

The comedy movie follows the lives of two American journalists in Paris, Bernard Lawrence (Curtis) and his friend Robert Reed (Lewis). Bernard, the ultimate bachelor, is juggling romances with three stewardesses who just happen to have different schedules and nationalities. Robert, meanwhile, is scheming to take over for his buddy after Bernard’s job relocates him to another country. Lots of zany situations, close calls and bedroom door-slamming inevitably follows.

Directed by John Rich (Roustabout...

Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director, in association with Damian Arnold, is pleased to announce the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, adapted by Robin Hawdon, directed by John Tillinger. The cast will be announced soon.Don't Dress For Dinner will begin previews on March 30 and open officially on April 26, 2012 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway 227 West 42nd Street. This will be a limited engagement through June 17, 2012.

Assume Crash Positions for Boeing-boeing at Florida Rep!

Florida Repertory Theatre announced the opening of its High Flying 12th season with one of Broadway's hottest comedies, Boeing-Boeing.

Open now Boeing-Boeing tells the story of a swingin' American in Paris and the three beautiful stewardesses he calls fiancée, fiancée and fiancée.

"Boeing-Boeing is one of the funniest plays of all time, and we're very excited to kick our new season off with such a brilliant comedy," said Florida Rep Producing Artistic Director and Boeing-Boeing director, Robert Cacioppo. "Florida Rep is only one of eight or nine theatres in America fortunate enough to get the rights to produce Boeing-Boeing, so Southwest Florida audiences are very lucky."

Boeing-Boeing is a sidesplitting comedy that soars in the stratosphere, and is first-class entertainment that will have audiences unfastening their seat belts and rolling in the aisles. Set in 1960's Paris, it is the hilarious story of Bernard,...

Act II Playhouse is proud to announce its 2009-10 season. The four-show lineup kicks off with the laugh-out-loud 2008 Tony winner for Best Revival, Boeing-Boeing by Marc Camoletti, followed by Ernest Thompson's beloved classic, On Golden Pond. Act II is also proud to present the world premiere of Philadelphia playwright Bruce Graham's newest play, Any Given Monday, a co-production with Theatre Exile; followed by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill's new musical about friendship, The Story of My Life.