(Enterprise photo — Griffin Kelly)

LAKE PLACID — This isn’t Hemingway’s or Fitzgerald’s version of the 1920s. Nobody’s getting shot in a pool or pining over their place in the universe after World War I. No, this is a much happier slice of the 20s where everything was “berries” and people danced the Charleston all night long.

Lake Placid High School students will perform Sandy Wilson’s “The Boy Friend” Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the LPHS auditorium. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students.

The musical follows the daughter of a millionaire Polly Browne, a student at Mme Dubonnet’s School for Young Ladies, who boasts about her amazing boyfriend despite not actually having one. She soon forms a relationship with Tony, an errand boy with a few secrets, and the two prepare for the upcoming carnival ball.

“It all happens in the course of a day,” said Emma Bishop, who plays Polly. “We look into each other’s eyes and just instantly fall in love.”

While this is all happening, other girls at the school — Dulcie, Maisie, Nancy and Fay — are playing hard to get with a group of men who wish to marry the young ladies.

Lindsey Rath who plays Maisie said her character is a real flirt.

“I’m actually in love with the character Bobby, but I like to keep him on a string as well as all the other guys.”

Also, Polly’s father, Percy realizes Mme Dubonnet is actually an old girlfriend who’s still interested in getting together. Two seemingly random characters are Lord and Lady Brockhurst, a couple with a fleeting yet comical marriage.

So the whole play is a real hodgepodge of people trying to understand the rules of love and attraction.

Though French is paramount to the lines, Weems said the language of love it the real key factor in the musical.

“I think the hardest thing to adapt to is the sense of romance and flirtation that American teenagers really don’t have now,” Weems said. “Girls are not as coquettish as they were in the 20s. These are wealthy young ladies in a finishing school and so their manners are perfect, and the young men know exactly what they can and can not do around them. It’s all very different from being a teenager now.”

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If you go…

What: “The Boy Friend” play

Where: Lake Placid High School, 34 School St.

When: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.

How much: $10 for adults. $8 for students

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Cast

Hortense: Annie Smith

Maisie: Lindsey Rath

Dulcie: Magnolia O’Brien

Fay: Olivia Sawyer

Nancy: Laurel Miller

Polly Browne: Emma Bishop

Schoolgirls: Lydia Bullock, Hallie Corrow, Sandra Harper, Marley Levenson, Evelynn Sharp, Madisyn Smith, Anna Taylor, Amber Winch, Madame Dubonnet: Graci Daby

Bobby Van Heusen: Jameson Batt

Percival Browne: Aidan Mellin

Tony: Cooper Holmes

Lord Brockhurst: Max Gole

Lady Brockhurst: Morin Bissonette

Marcel: Anders Stanton

Alphonse: John Brownell

Pierre: Tony Matos