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"By Jeeves", directed by Matt Bentley, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with book and lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn
From the classic P.G. Wodehouse stories of the amiably dense Bertie Wooster and his estimable manservant Jeeves, two of the theatre's most celebrated talents have fashioned a jolly chamber musical chock full of hilarity and invention.
Bertie is looking forward to enlivening a charity benefit at a church hall when his beloved banjo mysteriously goes missing. Assisted by the unflappable Jeeves, Bertie instead entertains the audience with an improvised account of how he and two chums - with, as one song puts it, "a collective I.Q. of around 42" - all got their names and identities confused in the course of one riotously raucous weekend.
This tale of escalating chaos and labyrinthine high jinx unfolds to the accompaniment of one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's most vivacious and sprightly scores. BY JEEVES cleverly intertwines the twin English passions for amateur theatrics and bumbling silliness, taking us back to a time when flirty girls pursued men, not careers, and where good breeding took precedence over brainpower.
Show Dates
Thursday 5th May - Saturday 7th May at 8.00pm
Sunday 8th May at 4.00pm
Tuesday 10th May - Saturday 15th May at 8.00pm
To be held at Up-Stage Theatre, 26A Moonshine Road, Upper Hutt. Tickets available at Upper Hutt i-SITE Visitors Centre
Upper Hutt Musical Theatre (Inc)
26A Moonshine Road, Trentham.
PO Box 40861, Upper Hutt 5140