Our Miss Gibbs

The multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre continues its Finborough Gaieties season, reviving the best of British Musical Theatre from 1870-1914. The first musical in the series – Florodora starring Olivier Award nominee Rosemary Ashe and Simon Butteriss was critically acclaimed and sold out. Now, for a limited run of three Sunday concert performances, we present local resident Lionel Monckton’s Our Miss Gibbs. The show was George Edwardes’ first production at the New Gaiety Theatre and ran for over 600 performances in 1909.

Miss Gibbs is a beautiful Yorkshire girl who sells sweets at Garrods’ store and is plagued by the attentions of young male customers, who are making themselves sick buying all her sweets. Miss Gibbs has fixed her heart on a handsome young bank clerk who – as one would expect – is in reality an Earl in disguise, Lord Eynsford. Miss Gibbs’ cousin, Timothy, soon arrives to complicate the situation further by becoming embroiled with a petty criminal and inadvertently stealing the famous Ascot Gold Cup (which belongs to Lord Eynsford’s father) The story reaches its climax at the Franco-British Exhibition in White City where the characters gather for the marathon race…