High-Flying Boeing-Boeing Hits Comedy Stratosphere  Shut the
front door. And the kitchen door. And the bathroom and bedroom
doors. If it's a farce, and WaterTower Theatre's Boeing-Boeing
is a classic one, count on doors swinging open and slamming shut
with split-second precision. The six characters in this 1962
Marc Camoletti sex comedy burn oodles of calories making
entrances and exits through many unbattened hatches, with laughs
hinging on how well everybody handles their knobs (tee-hee).
Forty-plus years ago this silly play lasted only 23 performances
on Broadway, though it ran seven years in London and an
astonishing 19 years in Paris. After a dud American movie
version starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis, Boeing-Boeing
sputtered back a few years later as a staple of the dinner
theater circuit. Back in the 1970s and '80s dinner theater was
big doin's and Dallas had five of them, drawing marquee
Hollywood has-beens like Bob Cummings, Sid Caesar and Van
Johnson to town to perform in Boeing-Boeing and othe