'She Loves Me' Tells a Classic Romance and Comedy

"If we are lucky, every once in awhile, we get a peek at a love that gives reassurance that all is well with this world. We take comfort in this and gain hope in the knowledge that two people, just like you and I, can create and share the very same thing that seems to hang the stars in the sky, give diamonds their sparkle and makes fireworks go ka-boom day or night. And if our luck holds, well, then all is right and all will remain right."

So it is with the love we see shared by George and Amalia in the play "She Loves Me," opening at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Historic Chief Theatre, home of the Paul Bunyan Playhouse, in downtown Bemidji.

This classic charming musical, the final production of the 2013 summer season, is the third adaptation of the play "Parfumerie" by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo. The sweetly innocent, yet romantic tale became the film "The Shop Around the Corner" in 1940 and was done as a musical version,"In the Good Old Summertime," in 1949. It was resurrected yet again in 1998 as the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan film "You've Got Mail." Audiences everywhere can't seem to get enough of this endearing love story. And from the moment the curtain rises, one can understand why.

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