HUMOUR: John Teece as Grinkle and Sue Troth as Ottoline.
BROMSGROVE Operatic Societys next production at the Artrix theatre in School Drive, Bromsgrove, is the musical comedy The White Horse Inn, which is set in Austria.
The Society has new musical and stage directors Helen Smith and Greta Derbyshire, and the show, which runs from Monday May 12 to Saturday May 17, will include songs such as Salzkammergut', Goodbye' and of course White Horse Inn'.
The story is based around the head waiters of White Horse Inn, who have found that to fall in love with the attractive young widow who owns the establishment is a swift and certain route to dismissal.
Yet none have been able to resist Josepha, least of all Leopold, the present incumbent.
She, however, pines for Valentine Sutton, a regular visitor from England, and is resolutely blind to all the evidence that his thoughts for her are no more than warm friendship.
Valentine's annual visit is at hand, and by the same steamer arrive Ebenezer Grinkle, a self-made lad from Lancashire with plenty of brass, his sweet young daughter Ottoline, an impoverished Professor Hinzel and his gawky, lisping, but appealing daughter Gretel, and a dapper young man, Sigismund Smith (of Hammersmith).
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Sub-plots abound as Smith and Grinkle discover they are hated business rivals.
Sutton, who is Smith's solicitor, falls in love with Ottoline, and Smith with Gretel, while Leopold repeatedly threatens to resign and wish them all a last goodbye."
The subsequent arrival of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor serves at first only to add to the acrimonious chaos, but finally his kind understanding and wisdom do much to bring about the statutory happy ending.
Tickets cost £11 on Monday and Tuesday and £12 for the rest of the week.
They are available from 0121 445 3120 or the Artrix box office on 01527 577330.
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