Me And My Girl
Major West End production planned for 2007/2008
More details to be announced soon
Lord Hareford has passed away and his will reveals the shocking news that he sired an heir during a youthful , unfortunate marriage with a working class woman. The heir is tracked down and brought to Hareford Hall for the family's inspection and they discover, to their horror, that he is Bill Snibson, a costermonger from the London parish of Lambeth. Most of them want nothing to do with him, but the Duchess of Dene believes that blood will tell, and is determined to make a gentleman of the young man which involves separating him from his sweetheart Sally. Lady Jacqueline Carstone is equally determined to part the young lovers, for her own purposes and ditches her fiancé Gerald Bolingbroke to move in on the new Lord and snag his millions.
The various parties pull Bill in many different directions, creating various comic situations, until finally the Duchess persuades Sally to leave Bill and allow him to become a gentleman unimpeded by her love. The Duchess slowly begins to realize that Bill is his own man and will bring great benefits to the fusty escutcheons of Hareford Hall and wishes she had not been so determined to see off the feisty Sally. However, kindly Uncle John has persued Sally back to Lambeth and persuades her to take some elocution lessons from a friend of his on Wimpole Street and she returns to Hareford Hall as a lady, every bit Bill's equal. Jacquie recognizes how Bill has changed Gerald, and the Duchess feels the scales drop from her eyes and she looks at her first love Sir John in a new light. All can live happily ever after, with all their various romantic confusions settled nicely.
