The Boy Friend

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. Polly Browne is too rich to be allowed a boy friend. Tony, for whom she falls, turns out to be the Hon. Tony Brockhurst, which is very lucky, because Polly thought he was just a delivery boy. Written in the fifties as "a new musical of the twenties" this is still the most successful, tuneful and witty of the send-up musicals, which ape the style of earlier, lighter-hearted and more disarming days. The Piano-Vocal score is available separately on sale.

Presented at the Players' Theatre on the April 14th, 1953, and subsequently at Wyndham's Theatre on January 14th, 1954. The Boy Friend opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on September 30th, 1954 starring Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut as Polly. A Broadway revival opened at the Ambassador Theatre on April 14th, 1970 and the show returned to the West End for a revival in 1984.