Trumbull New Theatre’s 2025-26 season takes flight with the farce “Boeing-Boeing.”

Marc Camoletti’s French farce made its debut and was adapted into English by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans.

It was turned into a 1965 film starring Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis, and a Broadway revival in 2008 won the Tony Award that year for best revival of a play.

Despite that success, director Josh Crank isn’t aware of any other area productions, which is one of the reasons he submitted it for TNT’s new season.

“It’s a great farce that we really haven’t seen,” he said “That’s one of the things that’s attractive to me. You don’t often get a quality script that has that history behind it, and then no one touches it for almost 20 years. It was nice coming in with a piece that has had time to rest, but has a very tried-and-true reputation in the past.”

In “Boeing-Boeing,” a French ladies man, Bernard, is juggling liaisons at his Paris flat with his three fiancees, all flight attendants — one American, one German and one French. With their busy travel schedules for work, Bernard juggles his relationships around their arrivals and departures. But his plans go awry when his college friend, Robert, arrives from America and Boeing’s faster jets scrambles his well-organized relationships.

The first show Crank directed at TNT was a farce (“Unnecessary Farce” in 2023), and last season’s “Red Herring” also had elements of that style. Crank said he enjoys the frenetic, fast-paced energy those kinds of shows require and the challenge of making it work smoothly in front of a live audience.

“Boeing-Boeing” definitely fits that bill and much of the burden falls on Chase Miles, who plays Robert.

“Once Robert arrives to visit his friend, Bernard, he pretty much never leaves the stage,” Crank said. “It was wonderful coming in, getting to work with someone as talented as Chase. This is a very physical show, and there was a time when he was training in Washington state to be a luchador (professional wrestler). It’s nice coming in with someone who has that kind of training, who was willing to be that physical on stage. It adds just so much.”

The rest of the cast features Michelle Jones, Joshua Robinson, Nina Miller, Casey Murphy and Molly Cravalho.

“Molly I’ve worked with going back to our time at YSU together,” Crank said. “We were students there at the same time, so it’s great coming in with someone you have over a decade of rapport with. Casey was also in ‘Red Herring.'”

This is only Robinson’s second area show. Jones and Miller have done many shows locally, but it’s Crank’s first time working with them.

“Michelle has brought a lot of her piano playing skills into the show,” Crank said. “There’s a small piano bit, and it was great to have someone who could just go to the piano and play it and not have to worry about it.”

Staff photo / Andy Gray
The farce “Boeing-Boeing” opens Friday at Trumbull New Theatre for a three-weekend run. The cast includes, from left, Chase Miles, Molly Cravalho, Joshua Robinson and Casey Murphy.