She Loves Me
Ah, She Loves Me . It's a story we all know, thanks, mostly, to the movie You've Got Mail , which is based on the same source material as the musical. (That would be the Miklos Laszlo play Parfumerie and the ensuing film adaptation, The Shop Around the Corner .) That familiarity doesn't mean it's not worth retelling. It's a lovely story, quaint, old-fashioned, and sincere, the kind of story we don't see these days, which makes this glorious revival such a welcomed treat. She Loves Me comes from songwriting duo Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), who brought us Fiddler on the Roof , and book writer Joe Masteroff , who wrote the libretto for the Kander and Ebb classic, Cabaret . (What a winning trio; Bock and Harnick's score is a feast for your ears, and Masteroff's book is substantive and feels fresh.) It takes place in Maraczek's parfumerie in Budapest, circa 1934. (The locale is rather inconsequential; no one puts on a Hungari...