Jeeves Takes a Bow

This play is the third adaptation in what might be an endless trove of P.G. Wodehouse's stories about a rich and feckless English dandy with a butler who is the real brains behind it all. This is third Jeeves production in the past two years for TRP, and there is another one scheduled for next season. Why do they keep coming?... SRO audiences love these characters. TRP actors, under the time and again incredibly consistent and nuanced direction of Dann Peterson, take these stories and coax laughs from audiences that are begging for a good belly romp through high society. In this case, Bertie Wooster (played by Aaron Henry for the third time) has temporarily moved to New York's posh Upper East Side and old friend Binky Bingham-Binkersteth (played by Grant Hooyer for the third time) get into typically complicated English-style romances that get tweaked by some of New York's finest Central Casting cast of characters straight out of the dime novels ("Knuckles" McCann & Ruby LeRoy... 'nuf said!). Jeeves (the anchor to the series played a third time by John Adler) is the one to arrange things again so the twisted couplings can get unraveled in very funny and high energy ways. Jeeves takes a  bow in this play for all the times he has rescued Bertie... and the beat goes on.

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