Jeeves at Sea Creative

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Director
Andy Jentzen
I am blaming PBS 56 Detroit for running Jeeves and Wooster, starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, in the early 2000s for me doing this play. It was not the first British comedy show I fell for in those days. Monty Python was a big reason, but, there was Good Neighbors, Yes Minister and All Creatures Great and Small that filled my head and heart with laughter. My dad and I would watch Benny Hill one right after the other. Never getting enough. In Fargo, where I was a Tape Editor who transferred the huge BBC tapes to smaller linear US tapes in the BD era....that is Before Digital ara...I started to sound like a Yorkshire man, which disturbed the Viking descendants of the Dakotas. My friend from high school loaned me some copies of PG Wodehouse collection. I wanted to direct one but, my search for a play script didn't happen until a friend emailed me that she was directing a play with these stories. Without her, I would never have found this play. Apparently, Jeeves has a cult following, because a bunch of a cult members are in this play you are seeing this evening or this afternoon. Some have done more then one Jeeves play. The writing is the best. Its funny. It makes fun of class but, Wodehouse touches on all the human frailties, which produced the biggest laughs of my life. Laughter is good for you. It is the only meaning I get from the show. Thanks to the cult cast for being so good and Veronica, for letting me join her hive of looneys. Enjoy the show everyone!

Creative Team

Producer- Alice Fell

Director - Andy Jentzen

Assistant Director - Jim Sullivan

Stage Manager - Andy Hoag

Set Designer- Laura Bird

Light Designer- Laura Bird

Head Carpenter and Set Builder - Josh Warn

Props - Lynn Heberlein

Costumes - Marie Jones

Sound Design - Paul Demyanovich & Alice Fell

Light Operator - Mark Ziemba

Sound Operator- (still have not found anyone)

Rehearsal Assistants-

  David Anderson

  Mark Ziemba