She Loves Me follows Georg and Amalia, two parfumerie clerks who aren't quite the best of friends. Constantly bumping heads while on the job, the sparring coworkers can't seem to find common ground. But little do they know, the anonymous romantic pen pals they have both been falling for happen to be each other! Will love continue to blossom once their identities are finally revealed?
In celebration of Roundabout Theatre Company's 50th anniversary, She Loves Me returns to Broadway for the first time since it triumphantly launched Roundabout's musical theatre initiative over 20 years ago. This heartwarming musical comedy features a book by Tony Award winner Joe Masteroff (Cabaret), music by Tony Award winner Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof) and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner Sheldon Harnick (Fiorello!). Six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis (Roundabout's Harvey, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) directs.
Yes, much of the show is as sugary and sweet as Amalia's late-in-the-show dessert, but evident also are the pain and heartbreak of infidelity, unemployment, being jerked around by a loved one and getting fired from your job. David Rockwell's magnificent and ever-changing set design takes its cue from the book's pivotal object, a musical cigarette box being sold at a Budapest parfumerie in 1934...Levi and Benanti connect through their characters' mutual underlying loneliness. They're as charming as Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, those 'You've Got Mail' stars, and they can also sing. Equally important, they never indulge in the usual musical-comedy tricks that attract Tony attention. Ellis wisely hands all that kind of Broadway shtick to the show's ill-matched secondary couple, played by the warring Jane Krakowski and Gavin Creel.
The production, again directed with tender exactitude by Scott Ellis, now has the unstoppably appealing Laura Benanti and the equally winning Zachary Levi as the warring perfume sales clerks who don't know they're secret pen pals...By no means, however, is this a two-person show. Benanti and Levi are surrounded in the '30s Budapest shop by Jane Krakowski, delightfully adroit as the naughty-and-nice, unapologetically sexual co-worker, Gavin Creel as her dashing cad of a lover and Michael McGrath as the less theatrically assertive but no less essential salesman...And there are plenty of florid operetta demands for Benanti, who wears a role created by Barbara Cook with a lyrical yet sturdy sense of her character's worth and sense of humor.
1963 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
1964 | West End |
London Production West End |
1964 | Regional (US) |
Regional Revival Regional (US) |
1985 | Off-Off-Broadway |
Equity Library Theatre Revival Off-Off-Broadway |
1993 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
1994 | West End |
London Revival West End |
2004 | Milburn, NJ (Regional) |
Paper Mill Production Milburn, NJ (Regional) |
2015 | London |
London Production London |
2016 | Broadway |
Roundabout Theatre Broadway Revival Broadway |
2016 | West End |
West End Revival West End |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2016 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Scenic Design | David Rockwell |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Zachary Levi |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Laura Benanti |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Jeff Mahshie |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Nicholas Barasch |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Jane Krakowski |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Larry Hochman |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | She Loves Me |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | David Rockwell |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Wig and Hair | David Brian Brown |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Laura Benanti |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Zachary Levi |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | She Loves Me |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Laura Benanti |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) | Jeff Mahshie |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Scott Ellis |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Nicholas Barasch |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Jane Krakowski |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | Donald Holder |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or off-Broadway) | She Loves Me |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical) | David Rockwell |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Jeff Mahshie |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Scott Ellis |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Larry Hochman |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Zachary Levi |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Jane Krakowski |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Laura Benanti |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | She Loves Me |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | David Rockwell |
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