Kimberley Summer Theatre’s 2008 stage show production is based on the "Jeeves" stories by P.G. Wodehouse, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and b ook 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 theater’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
“By Jeeves ” opens on July 8th and runs from Tuesday to Saturday until August 16th.
Tickets will go on sale in mid-June and will be available from the Kimberley Chamber of Commerce, Lotus Books in Cranbrook and at the door, pre-show.
Ticket prices are $18.00 for adults and $12.00 for children twelve years of age and under.
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