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Listen to The Boy Friend (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast of the Boy Friend on Apple Music. Stream songs including "Overture", "Perfect Young Ladies" and more.
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Music. Sandy Wilson's 1920s-style music was arranged by Peter Maxwell Davies, who had provided the score for The Devils. Davies added music for a dream sequence. Russell added two numbers from Singing in the Rain especially for Twiggy, "You Are My Lucky Star" and "All I Do Is Dream of You".
As romance blossoms between Polly and a messenger boy named Tony, the musical unfolds with misunderstandings, humor, and a delightful exploration of young love. The Boy Friend is a spoof of 1920s musical styles, offering a playful commentary on the conventions of its theatrical predecessors.
Madame Dubonnet's finishing school, near Nice, could exist only in musical comedy. The charming young pupils burst into song at the least provocation, and forbidden boy friends are forever popping through the french windows to make up the numbers.
Set against the backdrop of the French Riviera, this romantic spoof of 1920s musical comedies tells the story of English heiress, Polly, who is longing for only one thing: a boy friend.
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The Boyfriend Musical with music, lyrics and book by Sandy Wilson. The musical romance The Boyfriend is set in the 1920s at Madame Dubonnet's fashionable finishing school on the sun-kissed French Riviera, where young ladies are schooled in the finer arts of 'marrying well'.
