This week I saw the revival of the comedy "Boeing Boeing" on Broadway. I had seen it in London in the ‘sixties’ on stage in the west end and the movie version starring Tony Curtis. He played an American Bachelor living in Paris and "engaged" to three flight attendants. One from Lufthansa, another from TWA, and the third from Alitalia. He had a worldwide airline schedule and was able to juggle their stays in his apartment so none was the wiser. Jerry Lewis played Curtis' American friend who comes for a visit and who somehow has one of the flight attendants fall for him.

Someone named Mark Rylance has that role here and is clumsy and unappealing as is this dated, now-chauvinistic and often silly play."Christine Baranski plays his helpful maid in this onstage production, and The West Wing" alumnus Bradley Whitford has the old Curtis role. Gina Gershon does an Italian accent that sounds something like a female Bella Lugosi, and another "West Wing" alumna, Mary McCormack, gives a standard German accent. It worked on screen because back in the 'sixties,’ such humor was still in vogue. Now on stage it's shrill and unappealing. Rent the film instead.