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They’re back!

America’s oldest collegiate theatre troupe, The Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard University, are making their annual stop at City Hall Theatre.

The internationally known troupe will perform four nights of musical comedy excess from today through April 1 at 8pm each night.

This year, the troupe will perform its 158th annual production, HPT 158: Some Like it Yacht, dedicated to the memory of Elspeth Gibson. Mrs. Gibson, the wife of Don Gibson, was instrumental in first bringing the Theatricals to the Island and acted as the troupe’s local producer for many years. The show is set in the 1930s aboard a majestic cruise liner and follows the exploits of a former child starlet, Little Miss Dee Meaner. A has-been at age nine, Miss Dee will stop at nothing to regain the spotlight. When the ship is mysteriously hijacked, a wily private eye is called upon to discover the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

The press release asks, “Why is Miss Dee hanging around with that dodgy German film director, and doesn’t he look a lot like that exiled former dictator? What sort of loot is the ship’s engineer, Barry D’treasure, hiding below deck? And will the ship’s lounge singer, Sam N. Chantedevening ever learn to give up his womanizing ways? With secrets abounding, and with the ship being steered into iceberg-infested waters, we’ve got a sinking feeling there may be more to this plot than meets the eye.”

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals are fresh off their successful Woman and Man of the Year awards ceremonies, which honoured actors Halle Berry and Richard Gere with some good-natured ribbing and a Hasty Pudding Pot. The troupe will tour to New York City before setting sail for Bermuda today.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals will perform Some Like it Yacht at the City Hall Theatre March 29 through April 1 at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased online at www.boxoffice.bm or at the Visitors Service Bureau on Front Street March 23 through March 31 from 11am–2pm. At these times, tickets may also be purchased by phone at (441) 295-1727. Since 2003, The Hasty Pudding Theatricals have been working with Bermuda charities to give back to their ‘home away from home’. For the third consecutive year, the Theatricals is pleased to announce that a portion of the proceeds from each of its four Bermuda shows will go to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Bermuda and to Sandy’s Rotary Club.[[In-content Ad]]

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