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Come on Jeeves

COME ON, JEEVES... THERE'S A SPIFFING SHOW ON AT THE GRAND!

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16-05-2008 | Author: Press Office

The wonderfully funny P.G. Wodehouse comedy Come On, Jeeves is at Blackpool's Grand Theatre from June 2nd

P.G.Wodehouse was one of the most outstanding and ingenious writers of the time, whose highly entertaining plays contains some of the most memorable verbal sparring and witty one-liners ever written.

An all star cast team up for P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton’s sublime comedy Come On, Jeeves at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre from Monday 2nd June to Saturday 7th June, including TV favourite Anita Harris and the legendary comic actor Victor Spinetti.

P.G.Wodehouse was one of the most outstanding and ingenious writers of the time, a remarkable character whose humorous and entertaining writing contains some of the most memorable verbal sparring and witty one-liners ever written.

Whilst Bertie Wooster is out of town, his gentleman's gentleman - the inimitable Jeeves, is on loan to the Earl of Towcaster. The Earl, known as Bill, has been losing heavily on the horses, so decides to become a bookie in the guise of 'Honest Patch Perkins' - but it doesn't quite go to plan!

With an unpaid bet, a furious punter on his heels, a loud, wealthy, widowed American clairvoyant wanting to buy his crumbling mansion and his fiancée and family asking awkward questions, this could be a challenging day for Bill, which only Jeeves can sort out in his usual impeccable style!

Come On, Jeeves stars the well-loved British actress Anita Harris, renowned comic actor Victor Spinetti (Help!, The Return of the Pink Panther), film and television actor Derren Nesbitt (Where Eagles Dare, Special Branch), Myfanwy Waring (PC Amber Johannsen in The Bill) and Judy Buxton (On The Up).

Come On, Jeeves is at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from Monday 2nd June to Saturday 7th June. Monday at 8pm. Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm with Thursday and Saturday matinees at 1.30pm. Tickets from £12.50.

Great group and Friends of the Grand discounts available.

Call 01253 290190 or book online at www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk


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Notes for Editors:

The cast of Come On, Jeeves are now available for interviews.

Anita Harris
Singer, dancer, actress and fitness guru, Anita Harris is acknowledged as one of the UK’s most talented and endearing personalities. A star since she hit the top of the charts at twenty-five with Just Loving You (which sold 2 million copies); Anita was first discovered as a teenager at London’s Queens Ice Skating Rink where she reached championship standard by the age of 16. Invited to audition for a dance troupe, she found herself dancing on the strip in Las Vegas and sharing nights off with Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
On returning to the UK she joined the Cliff Adams singers before going solo in the mid-sixties and over the next decade would have eight chart singles and four chart albums, working with such legends as John Barry, Burt Bacharach and Leonard Bernstein.
In the seventies and eighties she enjoyed huge success as a television star with such ratings pullers as The Anita Harris Show (BBC) Anita In Jumbleland (ITV) Anita Harris – The Vocal Touch (BBC) and regular appearances on The Morecambe & Wise Show. She garnered cult status as David Nixon’s magical partner and worked alongside Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Frankie Howerd. She has performed at seven Royal Command shows and in 2003 became the first woman president of the Heritage Foundation for the Arts and Entertainments. She even found time to become a sex-symbol, starring in Carry On Doctor and Carry On Follow That Camel.
Anita is acknowledged as an iconic performer and a true survivor, having battled and survived a cancer scare, disappearance of her deposits in a 1982 City Bank collapse and three miscarriages. Anita is currently planning her autobiography.

Victor Spinetti
Victor Spinetti is a renowned Welsh comic actor. He sprang to international prominence in three Beatles' films in the 1960s: A Hard Day's Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour after George Harrison said, "You've got to be in all our films ... if you're not in them me Mum won't come and see them—because she fancies you."
Since then Spinetti has appeared in more than 30 films, including Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew, Under Milk Wood with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Voyage of the Damned, The Return of the Pink Panther, Under the Cherry Moon and The Krays.
Theatre work includes Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and Oh! What a Lovely War - which transferred to New York and for which he won a Tony Award, Candide, Cat Among the Pigeons, Felix in The Odd Couple, his critically acclaimed one man show A Very Private Diary and more recently Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Spinetti co-authored In His Own Write - the play with John Lennon which he also directed at the National Theatre, premiering on 18th June 1968 at the Old Vic. Spinetti and Lennon appeared together in June 1968 on BBC2's Release. He also directed Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair.
Victor’s many television appearances include Take My Wife and the sitcom An Actor's Life For Me. Spinetti's poetry, notably Watchers Along the Mall, 1963, and prose, have appeared in various publications. His memoir, Victor Spinetti Up Front... published in September 2006, is filled with anecdotes of an astonishing life, including notoriously of Princess Margaret.


Derren Nesbitt
Derren trained at RADA where he won the Forbes-Robertson Acting Award and the Kendal Award.
West End theatre credits include The Balcony, Arts, Whistle in the Dark, Apollo, The Business of Murder, Duchess and Mayfair, Run For Your Wife, Whitehall, Not Now Lover and at The Old Vic playing alongside Richard Burton.
Television credits include William Tell, Sir Lancelot, Inspector Jordan in Special Branch and leading roles in Ivanhoe. More recently, Derren has appeared as a regular in Courtroom and made a guest appearance in Hollyoaks.
Feature films include The Naked Runner with Frank Sinatra, Where Eagles Dare with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton, Moll Flanders with Kim Novak, Victim with Dirk Bogarde, Term of Trial with Laurence Olivier, Room at the Top with Laurence Harvey, Monte Carlo or Bust with Jack Hawkins, Bullseye with Michael Caine and Roger Moore and The Informers.

Myfanwy Waring
Myfanwy Waring was born in Dyfed, Wales in 1977.
She is best known for her role as PC Amber Johannsen in the British drama series The Bill. Myfanwy was keen on drama from an early age and has also appeared in Casualty as Tanya Stokes and is featured in FHM magazine’s 100 Sexiest Women In the World poll.
Myfanwy was also involved in the Asian Tsunami on 26 December 2004. Luckily she was unharmed by the ordeal.

Judy Buxton
Judy Buxton is an English actress best known for playing Ruth in the television comedy On the Up.
After graduating from the Rose Bruford drama school, Judy worked initially as a speech and drama teacher. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979, where she played principal roles until 1982. Her performances of Iphigenia in The Greeks and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet were particularly notable - Time magazine critic T.E. Kalem wrote “...as Buxton reaches the heartbreaking conclusion that the one life she has to give for Hellas is the noblest life to have lived, she radiates a great and unforgettable purity of spirit.”
Judy later worked mainly in television, notably as nurse Katy Shaw in General Hospital and Susan Protheroe in 1983's production of By The Sword Divided. In 2006 she was in the cast of a well-received UK touring production of Noel Coward’s Star Quality. Judy is married to Jeffrey Holland, best known as Spike in Hi-de-Hi!.

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Sarah Jane Wright
Press Officer
Grand Theatre, Blackpool
01253 743252
Email: sarahjane@blackpoolgrand.co.uk