The New York Musical Theatre Festival hosts Plane Crazy: the Musical (no relation to Plane Crazy, the 1928 debut of Mickey Mouse, I trust). According to the show's blog, advance tickets are sold out but some tickets are to be released the day of. I assume the sellouts put an end to the offer to let uniformed cabin/cockpit crew in for free. So, I guess you'll still have to hang out in bars in Kew Gardens (a/k/a "Stew Gardens") to met the jetboy or jetgirl of your dreams.
The show was created by Suzy Conn, friend-of-boing-boing and Blogway Baby proprietress. The synopsis, from the show's website (warning: sound):
Plane Crazy is a fun, upbeat musical about feminism set against the backdrop of glamour and innocent sex appeal of the swinging '60s jet age. A time when Stews Were Sexy and the World Was Sexist TM Plane Crazy is set during an explosive time in history: The intersection between the dawn of the Jet Age, the introduction of the Pill, the genesis of the modern Feminist Movement, and the Golden Age of Advertising. Stewardesses represented the first-wave shock troops in a changing world. This was an exclusive sorority of women who had freedom. Freedom to travel wherever they wanted. Freedom to have sex with whomever they wanted. And freedom to have a career without needing the support of a man. Alas, men were not as quick to adapt. Most guys were interested in a woman who was a cross between Betty Crocker and Betty Page - they didn't want a Betty Friedan. Society itself, as typified by the advertising industry, was also slow to adapt.
Plane Crazy explores these clashing values in an engaging story that follows the adventures of two young stews who are learning about love and life in the high-flying airline business circa 1965.... Plane Crazy uses the moment in history when stewardesses were portrayed as mistresses to highlight the issues and choices women faced, and continue to face today.
