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The Long-lived Boeing-Boeing

Sixties soap bubble of silliness

by Sally Mitani

posted 8/5/2010

Remember that old late-night TV ad that claimed some washed-up yodeler named Slim Whitman had sold more albums than the Beatles? Well, sit down for a similar crazy-sounding entertainment fact. The 1991 Guinness Book of World Records listed Boeing-Boeing, now playing at the Purple Rose, as the most-performed French play in history. Yep, more than

 
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