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    Monday, May 06, 2024

    Granite Theatre opens season with comedy ‘Boeing Boeing’

    A trio of stewardesses learn they’re all engaged to the same Lothario in the 1960s comedy “Boeing Boeing.” (Submitted)

    The Granite Theatre is kicking off its 2023 season with the farce “Boeing Boeing,” which runs Friday through April 8.

    In the piece, which was written by Marc Camoletti in French and translated by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans, a bachelor in 1960s Paris is engaged to three stewardesses. How does he manage to do this without his trio of fiancees uncovering his machinations? Well, he has their flight schedules figured out so that they are never in town at the same time. The advent of faster jets, along with some other factors, cause farcical complications.

    This season marks the first that the Granite is under the stewardship of new artistic director Nicole DiMattei, who was the co-creator, director and producer of the hit off-Broadway series of musical comedies, “The Imbible.”

    “Boeing Boeing,” Friday through April 8, Granite Theatre, 1 Granite St., Westerly; 7:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. and 2 p.m. Sun.; $25-$30; (401) 596-2341, granitetheatre.org.

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