History Theatre / SheLovesMe

** Arpad being the young, unproven member of the store, gets the number "Try Me", where he asserts his usefulness.

** While his music isn't ''too'' high, Arpad's sweet and well meaning nature goes quite nicely with his tenor voice.

* TwiceShy: Once their relationship has substantially improved, Amalia and Georg both admit that they were attracted to each other during their first meeting before their relationship turned sour. [[spoiler: Amalia, prepared to meet "Dear Friend" that night then laments that they didn't make their feelings clear sooner, at which point Georg reveals himself to be "Dear Friend"]].
* UnseenPenPal: Amalia sings in "If I Knew His Name" that she doesn't need to see her love in person to know him -- a claim which gets contested throughout the rest of the musical. In contrast, her friend [[ReallyGetsAround Ilona]] at first protests the idea of love without physicality, but she realizes physical attraction alone often gets her into trouble, and learns to see beyond the surface.

** The maitre'd at the cafe stands out as by far the hamminess character in the show, with his over the top antics bringing many laughs.

** Kodaly being such a SmugSnake can easily be very played this way, with his performances of "Ilona" and "Grand Knowing You" certainly applying.

''She Loves Me'' is a 1963 Broadway musical written by Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock. It is based on Miklós László's 1937 Hungarian play ''Parfumerie'', the same source material used for the films ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'' and ''Film/YouveGotMail''.

* FictionalCurrency: Instead of the pengo of 100 filler, or even the dollar of 100 cents (as one might have expected from American writers), the currency is the shilling of 12 pence. This is based on [[UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney the currency then in use in Great Britain and the Commonwealth]], although in those countries 20 shillings comprised a pound (the principal unit of money) while in the play the shilling is the largest unit of currency,

* FictionalCurrency: Instead of the pengo of 100 filler, or even the dollar of 100 cents (as one might have expected from American writers), the currency is the shilling of 12 pence. This is based on the currency then in use in Great Britain and the Commonwealth, although in those countries 20 shillings comprised a pound (the principal unit of money) while in the play the shilling is the largest unit of currency,

''She Loves Me'' is a Broadway musical written by Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock. It is based on the same source material as ''Film/YouveGotMail'' and ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner''. ''She Loves Me'' is set in a small Hungarian parfumerie in the 1930s. It centers around the relationship of shop clerk Georg Novak and his "Dear Friend," the woman with whom he has been anonymously corresponding. Shortly after the curtain rises, Maraczek's Parfumerie gains a new clerk, a young woman named Amalia Balash. When Georg and Amalia meet, it's antagonism at first sight. What neither knows is that they are each other's secret penpal love.

** At the end, [[spoiler:Amalia and Georg have one when he reveals himself as the "Dear friend"]].

* EvilSoundsDeep: {{Inverted}}, as while he isn't evil, Kodaly is the most reprehensible character in the show, and has a tenor voice.

''She Loves Me'' is a a Broadway musical written by Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock. It is based on the same source material as ''Film/YouveGotMail'' and ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner''. ''She Loves Me'' is set in a small Hungarian parfumerie in the 1930s. It centers around the relationship of shop clerk Georg Novak and his "Dear Friend," the woman with whom he has been anonymously corresponding. Shortly after the curtain rises, Maraczek's Parfumerie gains a new clerk, a young woman named Amalia Balash. When Georg and Amalia meet, it's antagonism at first sight. What neither knows is that they are each other's secret penpal love.

* VoiceTypes:
** Soprano: Amalia
** Alto: Ilona
** Tenor: Kodaly, Arpad, and the Headwaiter
** Baritone: Georg, Mr. Maraczek, and Sipos

* HypercompetentSidekick: Arpad as a bicycle delivery boy and [[spoiler:as a clerk.]]

** Mr. Maraczek is actually a pretty NiceGuy at first, but after the beginning of the show, he starts to act like a major {{Jerkass}} to Georg. This is later explained by him [[spoiler: believing Georg was having an affair with his wife]]. He drops this ball once he has a JerkassRealizaton as detailed below.

* LargeHam: The maitre'd at the cafe.

* YourCheatingHeart: Mr. Maraczek is heartbroken when he gets an anonymous letter saying [[spoiler:his wife has been having an affair with one of his clerks]]. He's even more heartbroken when a private investigator reveals that [[spoiler:it was not Georg Novak, as Mr. M suspected, but rather Steven Kodaly.]]

* BigDamnKiss:

* YourCheatingHeart: Mr. Maraczek is heartbroken when he gets an anonymous letter saying [[spoiler:his wife has been having an affair with one of his clerks]]. He's even more heartbroken when a private investigator reveals that [[spoiler:it was not Georg Novak, as Mr. M suspected, but rather Kodaly.]]

'''She Loves Me''' is a a Broadway musical written by Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock. It is based on the same source material as ''Film/YouveGotMail'' and ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner''. ''She Loves Me'' is set in a small Hungarian parfumerie in the 1930s. It centers around the relationship of shop clerk Georg Novak and his "Dear Friend," the woman with whom he has been anonymously corresponding. Shortly after the curtain rises, Maraczek's Parfumerie gains a new clerk, a young woman named Amalia Balash. When Georg and Amalia meet, it's antagonism at first sight. What neither knows is that they are each other's secret penpal love.

* BookEnds: At the beginning of the play Mr. Maraczek jokes that Georg should be going out and having fun at a cabaret while he's single. At the end of the play he takes Arnad out to a cabaret [[spoiler:since they're both single men.]]

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Inverted; Georg says that the "Dear Friend" that he met and who had to leave town is "well-fed" and middle-aged. Amalia is horrified to think that her penpal may be "old" and "fat" and accidentally writes it in a letter to him, which she proceeds to toss.
* CannotSpititOut: After realizing that Amalia is his pen pal, Georg has a hard time telling her that he's the "Dear Friend."

* HypercompetentSidekick: Arnad as a bicycle delivery boy and [[spoiler:as a clerk.]]

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Arnad saves Mr. Maraczek when the latter shoots himself thinking he was alone at the shop.]]

** Likewise Georg after visiting [[spoiler:Mr. Maraczek in the hospital and realizing Amalia wasn't causing the tension in the shot.]]

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Georg's face as the waiter scolds Amalia and her "husband" for arguing at the Café Imperial. Absolutely hysterical.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Georg and Amalia
* BetaCouple: Ilona and Kodaly

* LoveBeforeFirstSight: The entire plot of the show.