Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts students will take to the sky with their spring production of “Boeing Boeing” from Friday, Feb. 27 to Sunday, March 8 at the Burbank Auditorium Studio Theatre.
Play director Justin Smith will guide the audience along a Paris-bound adventure through Marc Camoletti’s 1960 farce of the same name. The show “centers on bachelor Bernard, who has a flat in Paris and three airline stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing each other,” according to SRJC’s Theatre Arts website. The leading man’s life gets turbulent when weather complications cause his three unknowing fiancés to end up in his city — and his apartment — at the same time, resulting in two hours of chaos and hilarity.
“There are lines that are gonna make you chuckle,” Smith said. “Our job is to bring that funny from the page to the stage and make it come to life for our audiences.”
The Tony-Award-winning comedy had layovers in the West End and Broadway before landing at the Studio Theatre. Beverley Cross and Francis Evans translated the script from French to English, allowing the play to travel beyond its Parisian homeland.
“We’ve got six fantastic student actors with two understudies,” Smith said. “They’re doing this really quickly. I think we’ve only had 13 rehearsals, and there’s only 20 rehearsals before they go to tech, so they’ve got 104 pages of dialogue to memorize.”
SRJC theatre students’ performance of “Boeing Boeing” will run evening shows at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, 28; March 4, 5, 6 and 7; and matinees at 2:00 p.m. March 1 and 8.
The 7:30 p.m. showing on Wednesday, March 4 will offer discounted tickets at $12 as one of their bargain shows.
“All that we want is folks to see the show,” Smith said. “We would love to have 100 people a night come out and support their fellow students, because they’re doing a lot of good work.”
Due to mild language and innuendo, the show is recommended for audiences 13 years old and older.
Tickets are available online and range from $25 for general audiences; $20 for students and seniors; and $15 for youth under 12. For more details, visit the theatre arts box office.
