Boeing-Boeing Sets Broadway Closing Date

The Broadway revival of Marc Camoletti’s Boeing-Boeing has set a closing date of January 4, 2009 after 17 previews and 280 regular performances. Directed by Matthew Warchus, the comedy opened on May 4 at the Longacre Theatre.

Boeing-Boeing centers on Bernard Greg Germann, an American living in Paris in the swinging 1960s, who manages to conduct relationships with three flight attendant fiancées: a bubbly American Paige Davis, a staunch German Missi Pyle and a spicy Italian Rebecca Gayheart, who fly on different airlines and touch down in Bernard’s flat between trips. This fiancée-juggling, which is aided with much exasperation by Bernard’s put-upon maid Bertha Christine Baranski, astounds wide-eyed houseguest, Robert Mark Rylance, a long-lost school friend visiting from Wisconsin.

Boeing-Boeing won 2008 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and for Rylance’s lead performance. Prior to its Broadway engagement, the play enjoyed a successful run at London’s Comedy Theatre from February 2007 – January 2008.

The revival of Boeing-Boeing is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Bob Boyett, Act Productions, Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert G. Bartner, The Weinstein Company, Susan Gallin/Mary Lu Roffe, Broadway Across America, Tulchin/Jenkins/DSM, and The Araca Group.