Miss Hope Springs

Ty Jeffries sings and plays the piano as his alter ego, the ditzy glamour puss, Miss Hope Springs, resident songbird of the fictitious 'Starlight Lounge'.....
The INDEPENDENT newspaper praised his act saying" These heavy lidded torch songs and belting show stoppers sound like 50’s originals” and continued “...the world had better brace itself for the voice, the legs and the devastating one liners of Miss Hope Springs”.
Entertainer Ty, the son of veteran British character actor Lionel Jeffries (Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), was educated at the Purcell School of music, clinched his first publishing aged fourteen and was part the stable of writers at Elton John’s Rocket Music by the time he was twenty five writing chart hitting material for amongst others Heaven Seventeen vocalist Carol Kenyon.
Spending some of his formative years growing up in Hollywood while his dad was out there starring in classic films such as ‘Camelot’ Ty says, “There was always somebody legendary popping in and out of the house. I was taught my first jazz chords by Sir John Mills, took my first dance steps with screen legend Fred Astaire and I think I must have got some makeup tips from Shirley MacLaine who was regular visitor to the family home. Actually I fell asleep in my soup having dinner with Frank Sinatra once…well I was only seven and it was way past my bedtime.”
Chanteuse ‘of a certain age’ Miss Hope Springs, was given life by Ty to perform his original songs as well as unique versions of classic Broadway and Jazz standards from song-smiths such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim and has performed to sell out audiences at the King’s Head Theatre Islington (Hope Springs Sings Streisand) Madam Jo Jo’s in London’s West End (Nothing Dirty Goin’ On) and the Cambridge and Edinburgh Festival (Almost a lady and From Hell She Came) and in many cabaret venues and private parties both here in the U.K. as well as theater and TV in Los Angeles (Doing Judy and THE TEST FOX TV).
Ty fills us in…. “From her piano in the 'Starlight Lounge' Miss Springs takes us on a rollercoaster ride, revisiting the sordid highs and the glittering lows of her so called ‘career’. Of course she always ends up bearing her soul, and trust me…it’s not a pretty sight!”