The theatre is full of unforgettable lovers. The most famous of them, Romeo and Juliet, is to contemporary theatre, what Adam and Eve are to the original love story from the Bible. From them have born many more forbidden love stories.

Children learn early about the trouble that love can cause. Thanks to the theatre, they understand that despite social position (Aladdin and Jasmine), beauty or ugliness (Beauty and the Beast) or whether you come from different worlds (Peter Pan and Wendy) that love wins in the end.

Sure, in some instances the “win” may be after death, as in Carousel, when Billy Bigelow comes back to earth as a charming ghost to give his last farewell to Julie Jordan, his wife. Or it can happen at the moment of death, as with Ethiopian-princess-slave Aida and the sexy-Egyptian-hunk Radames story. In Aida, Giuseppi Verdi’s opera, the “happy end” is realized when Radames is buried alive and discovers his love is already there.  Who could have thought?

Sometimes in theatre, love means having faith such as in Porgy and Bess.  Porgy believes that he will find Bess against the odds.  And often that hope leads to a happy ending such as in Jane Eyre.

 Yes, the theatre has a lot to say about love. Particularly that love can happen when you least expect it… In She Loves Me, Georg and Amalia start out as feuding sales clerks only to discover true love as anonymous pen pals.  Come see for yourself and be reminded of just how wonderful love can be.  She Loves Me opens tonight and runs until this Sunday, February 19.