Boy Meets Boy (musical)

Boy Meets Boy was a 1975 off-Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Bill Solly, and book by Bill Solly and Donald Ward, produced by Christopher Larkin and Edith O'Hara in association with Lee Barton at the Actor's Playhouse.

The title is a play on the much-used romantic comedy plot-line, "Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Gets Girl".

And in that tradition, the show is a light-hearted musical-comedy, featuring a 1930s style Astaire/Rogers romance between two men, and a same-sex marriage. The world of the play posits that in 1936, same-sex relationships are considered every bit as normal as heterosexual ones. The action begins with the abdication of Edward VIII and ends with the Duke of Windsor's (and the protagonists') June, 1937 weddings. It's all about Giving It Up ("the nightclubs and the taxis, and the tickets to the smash") for Love. The action occurs in the Savoy Hotel, a few of the most elegant nightspots in London, a dancing-girl bar in Spain, and a black-sheep aunt's disreputable establishment in Paris.

This was the first instance in history that the image of two grooms atop a wedding cake was presented to the public.

A 2012 production performed at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London was well received.^[1]

Musical numbers

• Sources:

Guide to Musical Theatre: Boy Meets Boy^[2]

Boy Meets Boy. 1975 Off-Broadway Production, Musical Numbers^[3]

References

External links

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9719561/Boy-Meets-Boy-Jermyn-Street-Theatre-review.html
• http://www.queermusicheritage.com/gm-boymeets.html
• http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_b/boy_meets_boy.htm
• http://www.allmusic.com/album/boy-meets-boy-original-cast-recording-mw0000232605