The run closed December 30, 2001
- Opened
- October 28, 2001
- Closed
- December 30, 2001
- Performances
- 73
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Helen Hayes Theater
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 225th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of By Jeeves 1 more that season
| 1975 | Her Majesty's Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it10 named
Tom Ford
Sam Tsoutsouvas
Steve Wilson
Ana Maria Andricain
6 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Choreographer
- Sheila Carter
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
By Jeeves, originally Jeeves, is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and book by Alan Ayckbourn. It is based on the series of novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that centre around the character of Bertie Wooster and his loyal valet, Jeeves. Premiering on April 22, 1975, at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, the show flopped initially, running for only a month. After an extensive rewrite, the show was produced in 1996 in both London and America, and premiered on Broadway in 2001.
The reviews were not auspicious. Some critics applauded the way By Jeeves brought the Wodehouse characters to life, but most thought the story slight and inconsequential. The Mikado To Matilda British Musicals On the New York Thomas S Hischak Rowman L, p. 74
- ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER had yet another Broadway flop with his and Alan Ayckbourn’s musical By Jeeves (10/28/2001; 73 performances). The show had originally been performed as just Jeeves in London decades earlier. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 325
- America’s Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, hosted the American premiere of By Jeeves in November 1996. Sir Andrew’s next American show, Whistle Down the Wind, opened at Washington, D.C.’s National The- ate in December 1996. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 575
- the first New York production of his intimate 1974 musical By Jeeves failed to captivate audiences. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 270
- The Odessa File or numbers from Jeeves (West End, 1975; revised and re-titled By Jeeves, West End, 1996, and Broadway, 2001). The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 112
- By Jeeves is an intimate musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, categorized under retrospective musicals. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 339
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for By Jeeves at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.