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Volume 3 Issue 15 - Tuesday, April 25, 2023
CECIL COUNTY’S ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
‘She Loves Me’ opens 2023 Season at Milburn Stone Theater By Barbara Norton
NORTH EAST - Curtain up. Light the lights. Live theatre is back, and the Milburn Stone Theatre at Cecil College production of She Loves Me is a great reminder of all we’ve been missing. The Tony-award winning musical opened on Broadway in 1963 and has been revived many times since. Georg (played by Steven Soltow) and Amalia (played
by Krysta Stefanosky) fall into the trap many people do …they are so busy looking for love in all the wrong places that they can’t see it standing right in front of them. Both have answered a newspaper lonely hearts ad and have no idea their “Dear Friend” letters are being exchanged with the perfume shop co-worker they don’t particularly get along with. If the plot sounds familiar, you probably saw Tom
Hanks and Meg Ryan in the movie You’ve Got Mail. This play and the movie are both based on Parfumerie, a play by Miklos Laszlo. Under the direction of Andrew Mitchell, the company demonstrates what’s best about community theatre. Lead actors Soltow and Stefanosky radiate star quality and light up the stage in every scene. Their singing voices are strong and their acting is first rate. Right be-
hind them are the supporting cast who play the staff of the parfumerie. Each of them has developed an believable character. Suzanne Stein as spunky Miss Ritter and Bobby Hamilton as the humorously villainous Mr. Kodaly bring energy and personality to their performances. Mark Dixon has some very touching moments as shop-owner Mr. Maraczek. The Ensemble of shoppers and everyone else in the cast seem
dedicated to the task of entertaining the audience. Mitchell keeps the pace moving briskly, ensuring that as a character leaves from stage left another is entering from stage right. The scenery is minimal – mostly stand-alone doors and windows, or a couple of tables and chairs. The exception was the perfume shop with its wall of perfume bottles. continued on pg2