The Boyfriend

With the closure of Watersmeet Theatre, we were forced to find an alternative venue. Our first production at the Hatch End High School Theatre was Sandy Wilson's The Boyfriend.

Our publicity at the time read :

Such was the atmosphere in 1926 in Mme Dubonnet's Finishing School where, at carnival time, the girls are turning their thoughts first to boyfriends and then to husbands! However, Polly Browne's farher discourages such thoughts from her, as he thinks they will only be after one thing - her money!

A messenger boy, Tony, meets Polly, but she tells him she is only a poor secretary to Mme Dubonnet. Meanwhile, Polly's father, on a visit to his daughter, discovers with dismay the Mme Dubonnet is the girl with whom he had an affair on Armistice Day!

Later that day Tony and Polly arrange to meet on the Plage, just as Lord and Lady Brockhurst recognise Tony as their runaway son, and ask a gendarme to catch the fleeing boy. Polly is heartbroken, thinking he is a criminal.

However it all comes right in the end at teh Cafe Pataplon during the Carnival Ball. Tony confesses to Polly he is a millionaire, the other girls get their chosen men, and Mme Dubonnet is amorously reunited with Polly's father.

A fabulously frothy and highly enjoyable musical - not to be missed!