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‘SHE LOVES ME’
The Peninsula Association
of Performing Artists
presents musical comedy
featuring mistaken
identities and lonely hearts
By MARILYN GILBAUGH
FOR COAST WEEKEND
‘S
he Loves Me,” a high-spir-
ited musical and romantic
comedy, opens Friday, July 7,
at the Peninsula Association
of Performing Artists in Chinook.
With music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick — the duo behind “Fid-
dler on the Roof” — this family friendly
production has a score that will keep the
audiences smiling and humming long after
the curtains close.
The show runs 7 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, through
Aug. 6.
Set in 1930s Budapest, the show begins
in a small perfume shop, with a musical
number: “Good Morning, Good Day”
sing the dusting, bustling shop employees.
However, beneath the light-hearted song
and dance are snags: feuding co-workers
and lonely hearts.
The store manager, Georg Nowack
(played by Ron Thompson), has a growing
grudge against a new hire, Amalia Bolash
(Hope Bellinger). He thinks she’s a snob;
she thinks he’s arrogant.
But at night — unbeknown to either
— each character is communicating with
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COLIN MURPHEY/THE DAILY ASTORIAN
Ike Lynn, with the Peninsula Association of
Performing Artists, applies makeup before
a rehearsal of “She Loves Me.”