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to Asheville with love
Razor-Sharp Timing Makes
W
hat do you get
when you mix three
lovely stewardesses,
two bachelors, and
a very fast Boeing
jet? The hit comedy Boeing-
Boeing
by Marc Camoletti,
opening February 16th at North
Carolina Stage Company in
downtown Asheville.
Bernard is a Parisian architect
who has arranged his love
life in a perfect balancing act.
He only dates airline hostesses;
and when one lady touches
down in Paris, the next one
is already in the air. It seems
like nothing could possibly go
wrong – until a visit from an old
college friend starts throwing
his carefully crafted schedule
out of whack.
As with all farces, the comedy
in Boeing-Boeing
lies in
excellent timing – or mis-timing,
as the case may be. Luckily,
Boeing-Boeing
stars Scott
Treadway and Charlie Flynn-
McIver have perfected their
timing over many plays together.
Beginning in 2004, with The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),
Scott and Charlie have starred in some
of NC Stage’s most popular productions,
including Stones In His Pockets, Moonlight
and Magnolias, and True West. They also
appeared in multiple productions at Flat
Rock Playhouse, the state theatre of North
Carolina.
In 2010 they were even recognized
nationally, with a profile in American
Theatre Magazine. UNC-Asheville professor
Scott Walters wrote about their unique
comic chemistry: “Like Bob Hope and Bing
Crosby, Charlie Flynn-McIver and Scott
Charlie Flynn-McIver and Scott Treadway star in the NC
Stage production of Boeing-Boeing. Photo: Jen Lepkowski
Treadway have taken to the road together.
And while the road between Flat Rock and
Asheville in North Carolina may not be as
far-flung as the road to Morocco, the aesthetic
distance may be nearly as great.”
Scott Treadway and Charlie Flynn-Mc-
Iver are joined by Maria Buchanan, Vivian
Smith and Julia Vanderveen as Bernard’s
girlfriends, and Paige Posey as Bertha,
Bernard’s caustic housekeeper.
Boeing-Boeing
was written by French
playwright Marc Camoletti, and made its
English-language debut in London’s West
End in 1962, translated by Beverley Cross
and Francis Evans. The play proved so
popular it ran in London for seven years. It
Boeing-Boeing
BY AMANDA LESLIE
was also adapted into a 1965 film starring
Tony Curtis, but contemporary audiences
will probably know it best from a recent
Broadway revival.
Tickets have been selling quickly for
this comedy, and the theatre has already
added four Saturday matinees to accommodate
demand. The play will run for four
weeks, with six performances each week,
closing March 13, 2011.
IF
YOU
GO
Boeing-Boeing runs
February 16 - March 13,
2011, Wednesdays through
Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and
Sundays and Saturdays at 2
p.m. Tickets are available at www.
ncstage.org or (828) 239-0263.
Tickets range from $16-$28, with a Pay
What You Can Night Wednesday, February
16. Ten dollar student rush tickets are
available at 2 p.m. the day of the show.
a Comedy Hit
Great Entertainment
Asheville Chamber Music Series . . . . 2
RENT at ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Vertigo Jazz Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Asheville Choral Society . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Brevard Music Center Faculty Trio . . 8
Classicopia Chamber Music . . . . . . . . 9
Abigail Washburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Aquila Theatre Company . . . . . . . . . 18
Andie MacDowell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Asheville Symphony Orchestra . . . . 20
Elizabeth Gilbert Booksigning . . . . . 27
Sanctum Sully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Jonathan Richman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Big Daddy Bluegrass Band . . . . . . . . 23
Doug Varone and Dancers . . . . . . . . 30
Asheville Puppetry Alliance . . . . . . . 34
Henderson County Arts . . . . . . . . . . 34
Blackbird Frame & Art . . . . . . . . . . . 36
When Jekyll Met Hyde . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Stella Adler Studio of Acting . . . . . . . 39
Donations Sought for Amphitheatre Renovation
After nearly four decades of bringing
free classic theatre to Asheville, the
Montford Park Players’ Hazel Robinson
Amphitheatre is falling down.
Montford’s free outdoor plays have
become an Asheville tradition. People
bring their families along with picnics,
pets and lawn chairs to watch the classics
performed in front of a pleasant mountain
hillside on summer nights in Asheville.
Now, the beloved amphitheatre is
showing its age. Beams are rotting away
and a complete renovation has become
necessary. The project funding will help
bring the current performance space back
to life, with new materials for safety, aesthetics
and durability. There will also be
changes allowing for improved sightlines,
lighting and acoustics.
Kickstarter.com allows the Montford
Park Players to fund projects by collecting
online pledges. Donors may pledge as
much or as little as they choose. Donations
are tax-deductible.
You can help by donating to the project at
http://kck.st/hMVrpE or by searching for
“Montford Park Players” at Kickstarter.com.
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