A British drama-school teacher had her name up in lights over Broadway last night, and all she had was one line to utter – “Yes.”
In fact, 25-year-old Manchester native Maxine Freeman didn’t even have to walk onstage to clinch the starring role when her fiancé, Darren Cohen, asked her to marry him.
Cohen, 32, arranged to have a laser-light show flash against the News Corp. building – home of The Post – spelling out one word at a time:
“WILL . . . YOU . . . MARRY . . . ME . . . MAXINE?”
Cohen, a product designer, pointed out the sign to his beloved during dinner 48 stories above Times Square, at The View, a restaurant atop the Marriott Marquis.
Maxine stared in disbelief.
“I am absolutely flabbergasted,” she said.
Cohen said he got the idea last year after she became impatient waiting for him to propose. “I want you to make an honest lady out of me,” she told him.
“I said, ‘Which would you prefer, your name up in lights on Broadway or . . . that I ask you now?’ ” he asked. But she never answered.
So under the pretense of taking her along on a business trip to New York City, Cohen set up the light show. He planned it for months, and paid about $5,000 to a Rochester, N.Y., laser company to make sure everything went without a glitch.
Although the jubilant bride-to-be hasn’t gotten a ring yet, they have one more day in New York before leaving for Las Vegas.
“We can go to Tiffany’s” she suggested.