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By Jeeves

By Jeeves

Shows · By Jeeves

When Bertie Wooster's banjo is stolen just before he is to perform at a church concert, his unflappable valet Jeeves suggests that Bertie entertain the audience by telling the story of recent romantic misadventures. Through flashbacks, Bertie recounts his bungled attempts to help friends with their love lives, each scheme going spectacularly wrong until the ever-resourceful Jeeves engineers solutions to every disaste…

Opened
2001
Performances
73
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics: Alan AyckbournBook: Alan Ayckbourn

Productions2 on Broadway

1975 Her Majesty's Theatre Transfer. April 22, 1975 · predates this show
2001 Helen Hayes Theatre Original. October 28, 2001 · Alan Ayckbourn 73 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Concord Theatricals ALW Collection available

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In the literature16 passages

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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p325

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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p575

the first New York production of his intimate 1974 musical By Jeeves failed to captivate audiences. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p270

The Odessa File or numbers from Jeeves (West End, 1975; revised and re-titled By Jeeves, West End, 1996, and Broadway, 2001). book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p112

By Jeeves is an intimate musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, categorized under retrospective musicals. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p339

The failures were Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves and Sweet Smell of Success. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p287

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