The only regret I have today in recommending "She Loves Me," Showtimers' newest production, is that today was the last day.
This was the best play I've seen at Showtimers, maybe ever, but certainly recently. It was as professional as community theatre gets and the singing voices were so professional that kept asking, "Where in the hell did they come from?" It appears most of them came from here.
The best of them, in fact, is an employee of a theatrical competitor: Brynn Scozzari, who plays the female lead, is the Director of Education at the Virginia Theatre and she sings like an angelic operetta performer.
"She Loves Me," in fact, played more like Gilbert and Sullivan than Showtimers, a light opera as opposed to amateur theater.
June Ostdiek and Aaron Sifford showed voices to die for and the rest of the majors in a big cast all had their good moments. (Let me mention that Ms. Ostdiek provided one of the best comedic moments in a funny play accidentally. During a dance, she hit the floor hard but bounced up laughing and didn't get the laugh under control for nearly two minutes, finally resorting to stooping behind a podium while she shook with laughter. It was a riot.)
"She Loves Me" is basically a soap opera about the employees of a Hungarian perfume store in the 1930s. This version was directed by the talented Roanoker Stevie Holcomb, who recently was Bella Abzug in Showtimers' one-woman production. Her touch with "She Loves Me" was marvelous and she had a lot of help the support crew, especially costume designer Sherilyn Lawson who, as Stevie said before the show "designed and sewed every stitch" on stage.
It was all done well from designing the sets to building them, lighting the production and producing excellent sound.
The show is based on a play by Miklos Laszle and was directed on Broadway by Harold Prince.
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