A surfing British royal, an Australian crocodile hunter, a punk rocker and a Hollywood starlet will take to the storied Hasty Pudding stage this February in the company’s 154th production, “Snow Place Like Home,” Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced yesterday.

David S. Kennedy ’99, Michael J. Kennedy ’97-’99, Kevin E. Meyers ’02 and Michael S. Roiff ’01 wrote the spoof of a 1980s murder mystery.

The drag burlesque extravaganza will mark the final show to go up in the historic, if dilapidated, 125-year-old building before the College begins multi-million dollar renovations this spring, a full year later than originally planned.

The College assumed ownership of the building more than a year ago and had hoped to begin renovations to turn the space into a state-of-the-art theater last June.

But drawing plans and getting bids on the building project from construction firms took longer than expected, said Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 last spring.

Instead, smaller, largely “cosmetic” renovations will keep the building functioning until the construction begins, said Theatricals President Gregory C. Padgett ’02.

If renovaions had gone with the original timetable, the 154th show would have been displaced to rehearse and perform in a rented space.

“I’m ecstatic that we’re in that building,” Meyers said. “It just embodies the Hasty Pudding.”

For the four playwrights, the project was a long time coming.

“We were trying to do something that hadn’t been done in recent memory,” Roiff said. “This seems fun. All 14 parts seem like really good roles.”

Roiff and the Kennedy brothers initially submitted a script, entitled “Dial R for Room Service,” but it was rejected for the 152nd production two years ago.

One night at Pizzeria Uno’s last spring, the three writers began to work with Meyers, a two-time Pudding cast member, to overhaul the old script and brainstorm rewrites for the show.

As they worked together to write the script and imagined possible costumes, Meyers said, it was often easy to forget the Pudding’s cast is completely male.

“We kept saying, ‘She’s going to be really hot.’ Then we’d realize it’s going to be a dude,” Meyers said, laughing. “It’s sort of jarring.”

The playwriting process spanned from May to mid-September, when the four writers submitted their masterpiece.