AUBURN — We are boarding now for “Boeing Boeing,” a side-splitting comedy with lots of doors, mistaken identities and beautiful airline stewardesses.

This current production by Community Little Theatre, CLT, opens Friday, Jan. 12, with a weekend schedule running through Sunday, Jan. 21. Under the direction of Eileen Messina, six actors keep this mildly naughty nonstop comedy flying high to a happy ending.

It’s Paris in the swinging sixties and playboy Bernard is engaged to three glamorous stewardesses. It’s a feat made possible by Bernard’s adept juggling of the flight schedules of his trio of fiancées, none of whom know of the others. Somehow, Bernard manages to keep “one up, one down and one pending.”

What could go wrong? Just about everything when the airline introduces a new and faster Boeing jetliner. Bernard’s finely tuned schedule of deception blows up in his face as all three airline hostesses wind up in his apartment at the same time.

“Boeing Boeing” is a classic French farce written by Marc Camoletti (1923-2003), who authored more than 40 plays. This play was his first major international success. It ran for seven years and 2000 performances in its debut London production, setting the Guinness Book of Records mark for “most performed French play worldwide.”

Movie fans will remember the 1965 Paramount film that starred Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis and Thelma Ritter.

“This play is a throw-back to easier times,” says the CLT show’s director, Eileen Messina. It comes along in mid-winter “at just the time when we can all use some laughter.”

Messina said the play “has romanticized the period” in which it takes place. She said the show is presented “with a bit of a wink” of the eye at its political incorrectness by today’s standards.

The cast has been having a ball throughout rehearsals, Messina said.

Christopher Hodgkin plays Bernard, a Paris playboy who happens to have three fiancées. Up until the play’s fast-paced conclusion, Bernard has managed to keep the stewardess from three different airlines from showing up at his apartment at the same time.

Chad Jacobson plays Bernard’s visiting friend, Robert. Messina said Jacobson has developed a delightfully wide-eyed portrayal of this character who gets unexpectedly pulled into the ruse.

The three stewardesses present a kind of Barbie-doll identity. Their uniforms are bright primary colors of red for Italy’s L’Italia Airline, blue for America’s TWA, and gold for Germany’s Lufthansa Airlines, Messina explained.

Renee Mahon Davis, a popular CLT veteran, has the role of Berthe, the maid. She is silently, but unmistakably, disapproving of the free-wheeling arrangements in the Paris apartment when all three stewardesses are in town simultaneously, and Bernard is forgetting which lies to tell. Berthe helps him keep his schedule with the fiancées in order until Boeing unexpectedly introduces their new super jet — meaning much faster flights — which brings all three fiancées to Paris and together at Bernard’s apartment.

Performances of “Boeing Boeing” are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 12-13; Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 18-20; and at 2 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 14 and 21.

Great Falls Performing Arts Center is at 30 Academy St. For tickets call the box office at 207-783-0958 or go online to www.laclt.com.

Cast members for Community Little Theatre’s upcoming performance of Boeing Boeing are, from left to right; Heather Marichal as Gloria, Christopher Hodgkin as Bernard, Savannah Irish as Gabriella, Chad Jacobson as Robert, Renee Mahon- Davis as Berthe and Emily Grotz as Gretchen. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)