To everything there is a time and season, and when Spring rolls around it is a sure bet that America?s oldest college campus theatrical company can be found hamming it up on City Hall stage in yet another extravagant, all-male production.

Sure enough, local audiences can look forward once more to enjoying four nights of ribaldry and musical comedy excess as Harvard University?s Hasty Pudding Theatricals presents ?HPT 158: Some Like it Yacht? from March 29 through April 1.

Known internationally for its annual student-written burlesques and Man and Woman of the Year awards, Hasty Pudding Theatricals has brought its show to Bermuda annually for the past 43 years, with this year?s production being the troupe?s 158th.

?HPT 158: Some Like It Yacht?, set in the 1930s aboard a majestic cruise liner, 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; there won?t be any good-ship-lollipops on this cruise. 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:

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 womanising ways? With secrets abounding, and 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. Fresh from their successful Woman and Man of the Year awards ceremonies, which honoured Hollywood actors Halle Berry and Richard Gere with some good-natured ribbing and a Hasty Pudding Pot, Hasty Pudding Theatricals has been performing this year?s show since February 24 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to rave reviews. The troupe will tour to New York City before ?setting sail? for Bermuda.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals also has a strong commitment to charitable outreach in its home community, and since 2003 has been working with Bermuda charities to give back to what it describes as ?our home away from home?. So, a portion of the proceeds from the Bermuda performances will be donated to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Bermuda and Sandys Rotary Club. In a touching tribute to the woman known locally as ?the first lady of theatre?, HPT is dedicating the 2006 show to the memory of Bermuda?s own Elsbeth Gibson. Mrs. Gibson, the wife of Don Gibson, was instrumental in first bringing the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to the Island, and she also acted as the troupe?s local producer for many years. She will be remembered fondly by the generations of Harvard students whom she first introduced to Bermuda.