The Boy Friend is a three-act musical and was originally presented as a new musical comedy of the 1920's at the Players' Theatre on 14th April, 1953. The first public presentation was at Wyndhams Theatre on 14thJanuary, 1954. It's a perennial saga of boy meets girl, boy loses girl through a misunderstanding before the truth is eventually revealed, prompting a collected sigh of relief and everyone lives happily ever after. Despite its allto familiar storyline, this song-and-dance show about a finishing school on the French Riviera in the Roaring Twenties remains popular, tours regularly and succeeds despite its old-fashioned façade, its outmoded innocence anditscontrived storyline.
- ISBN: 9780571525614 (057152561X)
