Who can knock a gentle, good-natured little musical with a droll sense of humor and a couple of pretty songs? I can, when said musical is more than two and a half hours long, visually boring, drearily inconsequential, and often dull as a dishrag. Certainly dozens of chuckles (though nary a guffaw) pop up in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn's tribute to the P.G. Wodehouse canon, as do three catchy songs ("Travel Hopefully," "Half a Moment" and "That Was Nearly Us") and a game try by John Scherer and Martin Jarvis to make Wooster and Jeeves' verbal byplay work in a Broadway house. But the sheer hermetic nothingness of the enterprise is very quickly evident, and by the time the cast, dressed in "Wizard of Oz" garb (don't ask), offers a final curtain mega-medley, we're angry and eager to wave "Bye Jeeves."
