Ah, back to the theater...

“She Loves Me” is set in 1930s Europe and is everything one could hope for in a holiday show. It’s a charming musical comedy and after seeing it you’ll wonder why you don’t know it better.

“She Loves Me” (Originally a play, "Parfumerie" by Hungarian Miklos Lazlo) is about two feuding perfume shop clerks who secretly find solace in their anonymous romantic pens pals, not knowing their respective corespondents are each other. “She Loves Me” started out as a short story and was adapted into a play and then the movie “The Shop Around the Corner” starring Jimmy Stewart. It was later readapted as a play and updated to the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan film “You’ve Got Mail.”

"She Loves Me" contains stretches of romantic rapture and broad moments of hilarity, particularly the "Twelve Days of Christmas," as sung with ever increasing speed and anxiety by the carolers, shoppers and clerks.

I bring this play up because I've done the show back in 1998. The song, "Twelve Days of Christmas" popped in my head this weekend, and I've been trying to figure out the rest of the lyrics. I almost forgot how wonderful the play is. I guess the play's the thing, eh? ;)