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Take one irresponsible city boy who just wants to dance, add a strong-willed no nonsense country girl, toss in a few money troubles and mistaken identities and you have a formulaic but fun show. Beef & Boards’ current musical “Crazy for You” is a romance wrapped in nostalgia.   The show premiered in 1992, but it’s actually a reworked version of the 1930s’ “Girl Crazy.” It certainly feels more in step with musicals like “Annie Get Your Gun” than anything created in recent years. The Gershwin score includes songs like, “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” “I’ve Got Rhythm,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.” It revolves around the Zangler’s Follies, a thinly veiled version of the real Ziegfeld Follies. Bobby Child, played by Blake Spellacy, is our city boy. He heads to a dusty town in Nevada to foreclose on a theater for his domineering mother’s bank. Once in Deadrock he immediately falls for a local girl named Polly and decides the only way to win her is to pretend ...

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents a fabulous lineup in 2015 that includes two new productions to its stage.   The season gets off to a solid start with the classic Neil Simon comedy: The Odd Couple , which marks its 50th Anniversary in 2015. Two Beef & Boards favorites will star in this tale of mismatched roomates, with Jeff Stockberger as the easygoing Oscar Madison and Eddie Curry as the uptight Felix Ungar, who moves in with Oscar after his marriage falls apart. What happens next is nothing short of hilarious! Opening on Dec. 27, 2014, the show is on stage through Feb. 8.   Then starting Feb. 12, the Beef & Boards stage is filled with all things Gershwin as it presents the all-American musical Crazy For You . Winner of three Tony Awards and based on the 1930 musical Girl Crazy, the story centers around Bobby Child, who is sent to Nevada to foreclose on a theatre. But when he falls in love with the local postmistress, he devises a plan to save t...