Our Miss Gibbs
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Our Miss Gibbs is a musical comedy in three acts by 'Cryptos' and James T. Tanner, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. Produced by George Edwardes, it opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London on 23 January 1909 and ran for an extremely successful 636 performances. It starred Gertie Millar, Edmund Payne and George Grossmith, Jr.
The show also had a short Broadway run in 1910.[1] It was revived at the Finborough Theatre, London, in May 2006. This was the first professional London production since 1910.
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[edit] Roles and original cast
- The Hon. Hughie Pierrepoint (An Amateur Criminal) – George Grossmith, Jr.
- Slithers (A Professional Crook) – Robert Hale
- Mr. Toplady (Manager at Garrod's) – Arthur Hatherton
- Lord Eynsford (In Love with Mary) – J. Edward Fraser
- Mr. Amalfy (The Director-General of the White City) – H. B. Burcher
- Timothy Gibbs (Mary's Yorkshire Cousin) – Edmund Payne
- Lady Elizabeth Thanet (Engaged to Lord Eynsford) – Denise Orme
- Madame Jeanne (Modiste at Garrod's) – Jean Aylwin
- Mrs. Farquhar (An Impecunious Woman of Fashion) – Maisie Gay
- Miss Gibbs (Mary) – Gertie Millar
[edit] Synopsis
The plot is typical of those of musicals of the period: Mary Gibbs is a Yorkshire lass who has found work as a shop girl at Garrods, where she sells candy. The young men are making themselves ill eating the sweets they buy to gain the attention of the beautiful, but no-nonsense Miss Gibbs, who disapproves of their attempts at familiarity. Miss Gibbs has fallen in love with a young bank clerk who is actually the son of an Earl, Lord Eynsford, in disguise. When she discovers his deception, she dumps him on the spot.
Mary's cousin Timothy has come down from Yorkshire to play second euphonium for the town band in the contest at the Crystal Palace. Timothy is a real country cousin, and he has a variety of humorous adventures in the big city. He gets entangled in a crime when he mistakenly picks up a bag belonging to the Hon. Hughie Pierrepoint, an enthusiastic amateur criminal. The bag contains the famous Ascot Gold Cup, which Pierrepoint has just stolen.
At the Franco-British Exhibition in White City, Timothy worries over his "crime" and imagines that the police will find him. He disguises himself as an entrant in the marathon race and staggers into the stadium mistakenly to be acclaimed the winner. Finally, the Gold Cup is recovered and restored to its owner, who happens to be young Eynsford's father, by now so charmed with Mary Gibbs that he is more than happy that she should become his daughter-in-law.
[edit] Musical numbers
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