Me and My Girl

Pukekohe Light Opera Club presents Me and My Girl.
Book & Lyrics by L. Arthur Rose & Douglas Furber Music by Noel Gay.

It's the story of Cockney barrow-boy Bill Snibson who is introduced to the haughty Hareford family by Parchester, the family solicitor, as the heir to the estate. It seems the late 13th Earl of Hareford had enjoyed at least one brief period of amorous slumming secretly wedding a woman beneath his station.

The Earl’s will specifically states that the heir must be deemed a fit and proper person by the two very fit and proper executors, Maria, Duchess of Dene, and Sir John Tremayne. The Duchess is determined to make the best of the situation by transforming Bill into a proper gentleman.

Fearing that she will lose her right to the Hareford fortune Lady Jacqueline dumps her wet upper-class boyfriend Gerald Bollingbroke, the Earl’s cousin, and tries to seduce Bill.

However, Bill has brought his cockney girlfriend Sally Smith along and she is not too happy about the situation. Sally realises that she will not fit into his new surroundings and returns to London. Bill loves her dearly and is very unhappy and is prepared to give up his inheritance but Sir John, who worships the Duchess from afar, transforms Sally into a partner fit for an Earl and all ends happily ever after.

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