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A Damsel In Distress

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  8w, 7m

P.G. Wodehouse, Ian Hay

In this rollicking stage comedy adapted from P.G. Wodehouse’s celebrated 1919 novel, romance, ambition and mistaken identity all add up to a comic whirlwind at a rural manor in 1927.

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A Damsel In Distress

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    8w, 7m
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

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Summary
Golf-loving American composer George Bevan falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day; when he tracks her down to a romantic rural manor, mistaken identity leads to all manner of brouhaha in the inimitable P.G. Wodehouse fashion.
History
A Damsel in Distress premiered at the New Theatre, London, on 12 August 1928. Produced by Nicholas Hannen and starring Basil Foster, Jane Baxter and Reginald Gardiner, the play had a successful run of 234 performances. A 1937 movie musical, adapted from the source novel by author P.G. Wodehouse with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, starred Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns and Gracie Allen.
Performing Groups

(in order of appearance)

MAC (a stage-door keeper)
BILLIE DORE
GEORGE BEVAN
LADY MAUD MARSH
PERCY, VISCOUNT TOTLEIGH
A POLIOEMAN
ALBERT KEGGS
ALBERTINA KEGGS
LADY CAROLINE HIGGINS
THE EARL OF MARSHMORETON
ALICE FARADAY
REGGIE HIGGINS
DR. MOSSOP, DEAN OF DUMBLETON
MRS. MOSSOP
LADY PRUDENCE WILLOWBY
CAPTAIN PLUMMER
MISS MOULD
AUSTEN GRAY

  • Time Period 1920s
  • Setting The Regality Theatre, Totleigh Castle and Ye Dolly Varden Tea Shoppe. 1927.
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) and Guy Bolton (1884-1979) were both born in England. They were introduced by Jerome Kern, and he suggested they all work together. They did, tirelessly, and in the beginning of their collaboration wrote nearly one show per month: the famed Princess ...

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Ian Hay

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