Borrowing a little bit from here and there -- Gilbert and Sullivan, George Bernard Shaw, British music hall, burlesque, circus clowning and even our old pals Lerner and Loewe -- Diablo Light Opera Company's production of "Me and My Girl" serves up a hearty musical stew that bubbles with some tasty Bay Area talent and does everything short of dropping trousers to clean the comic platter. In other words, few gags are left undone, and more than a few are overdone in the relentless pursuit of laughter -- a mission that succeeds completely here.

This is the second time DLOC has stepped up to the plate with "Girl," one of the company's most popular shows. And once again, director Rhoda Klitsner and crew have hit a towering home run, thanks in no small part to Jeff Seaberg, a singing, dancing, mugging comedy machine who does for this show what popcorn does for butter and hot dogs for mustard.

Re-creating the role for DLOC, it's clear Seaberg (and Klitsner) know where all the comic bodies are buried. He creates several inspired bits of sheer insanity that leave the audience breathless from laughing. Seaberg, for example, can do more with a king's cape than any dozen garden-variety emperors, and he can make a comedy banquet out of a fancy lady's hat.

Along with the clowning, though, Seaberg is also a believable romantic lead and song-and-dance man, as illustrated by "Leaning on a Lamp Post" (a minor hit by the mid-'60s pop group Herman's Hermits, if memory serves), a charming production number. His romantic moves shine, too, in his scenes with both the charming and fast-stepping Terry Darcy-D'Emidio, his character's one and only, and Donna Turner, who turns in a sizzlingly comic performance the proper young lady relatives want to see Seaberg's character, Bill, engaged to.

Bill is a happy cockney lad, pleased with his lot in life and his gal pal, Sally (Darcy-D'Emidio), when he learns he is really minor royalty and heir to Hereford Hall -- and the big bucks all that entails. For many reasons, most financial, the other relatives aren't exactly thrilled to have Bill, or any cockney for that matter, as lord of the manor. But they are compelled by provisions of the estate to see that he becomes a proper gentlemen.

Much of that means leaving Sally for a young woman like Lady Jacqueline Carstone (Turner) who doesn't drop her h's. That leads Bill to plead for a settlement and a return to Lambeth, where he and Sally can live happily ever after. That would be fine with many of the relatives, including Gerald Bolingbroke (a stunningly funny Kyle J. Fitzgerald), a minor heir and the fellow who is already engaged to Lady Jacqueline. But the training goes on, because calmer heads prevail, and there is a happy ending.

All of the show's principals are perfectly cast by Klitsner, who manages to spare no laughs. She and Don Wilson combined on the entertaining choreography and managed to put it all together using a wide age range of performers, giving the show a very realistic look. While the principals got most of the laughs and big songs, there were a number of memorable performances by those in smaller roles. Betty Harwood, re-creating her role as Maria, was a delight, as was Fred Burks as Sir John Tremayne and Joel Fleisher as Herbert Parchester.

This production of "Girl" has the earmarks of one of those legendary local productions people talk about fondly for years. Don't miss it.