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By Jeeves

Inspired by P.G Wodehouse’s beloved stories, By Jeeves is as refreshing and English as a cup of tea!

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1920s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production (1997)
By Jeeves is a musical in two acts and a celebration of great British traditions. It is a totally rewritten version of a 1975 production from two of U.K. theatre’s biggest names, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn.

When Bertie Wooster’s banjo mysteriously disappears just as he is about to give a concert in a church hall, his quick-witted and unflappable manservant Jeeves suggests that he entertain his audience by relating the hapless romantic misadventures of his circle of high-society London cronies. An impromptu theatrical extravaganza unfolds, with Jeeves serving as writer, composer, director and props master.

Featuring farcical sight gags, nimble word-play, ingenious staging and 13 delightful songs, By Jeeves is a love letter to amateur dramatics. Appropriate for audiences of all ages, the show is suitable for everyone from high/secondary schoolers to professionals to perform.
REVIEWS:

"Nicely done Jeeves! ...Andrew Lloyd Webber's music brightly suits Alan Ayckbourn's neatly turned lyrics. Cozy in style, fizzy in spirits, it makes for a night of jolly good fun!"

Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger

"A cheerfully convoluted tale of mistaken identity, romance thwarted and the triumph of true love. Once the giggles start, they rarely subside!"

Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press


Premiere Production:

Completely reworked from its original incarnation in 1975, By Jeeves opened in Scarborough, U.K., in 1996, later successfully transferring to the Duke of York’s Theatre and the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. The production garnered three Olivier Award nominations.

By Jeeves made its North American bow at East Haddam’s Goodspeed Opera House in December 1996. A revised Goodspeed production played on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre in 2001.

The musical has also been filmed for video release.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • BERTRAM WOOSTER
    JEEVES
    HONORIA GLOSSOP
    GUSSIE FINK-NOTTLE
    HAROLD "STINKER" PINKER
    STIFFY BYNG
    BINGO LITTLE
    SIR WATKYN BASSETT
    MADELINE BASSETT
    CYRUS BUDGE III (JUNIOR)
    OTHER PERSONAGES (3)

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    1 Keyboard (Piano Conductor’s Score)
    20 Vocal Books
    20 Scripts

    		 $500.00 +$135.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    1 Full Score
    1 Keyboard I (Piano)
    1 Keyboard II (Synth)
    1 Woodwind (doubling alto sax & flute)
    1 Rhythm Guitar
    1 Bass Guitar
    1 Drums

    		 $150.00 +$135.00/pm
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 Piano/Conductor Score
    1 Vocal Score
    1 Script

    		 $24.00

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