skygiants

Me and the 18 year-old musicals fan greatly enjoyed By Jeeves but it was really not what we were expecting. Also we have spent the week earwormed by "Love's Maze" which I merely wish to inflict on everyone else as much as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW5ZJvAQMa0

The Wikipedia entry and a linked account of the 1975 version are intriguing - Tim Rice backed out of the project, Alan Ayckbourn agreed to write the book but "additional problems were caused by Ayckbourn's lack of interest in musical theater as a genre"(!). The original version involved Spode and the Eulalie plot (without revealing what Eulalie was), which sounds like Andrew Lloyd Webber does Springtime for Hitler. They sacked Emma Thompson's father as director and Alan Ayckbourn took over with his lack of interest in musical theatre, and the tryout lasted 4 and three-quarter hours and they cut Aunt Dahlia before opening night although the actress was on all the posters. It makes you quite surprised anyone decided to bring it back in 1996.