The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical with a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre Lambert and Greg Morisson.
Originally entitled An Accident Waiting to Happen, it's an homage to American musicals of the Gatsby era, the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre focusing on Man in Chair, a mousy, vaguely depressive Broadway fanatic whose coping mechanism involves the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre listening repeatedly to a recording of a 1928 stage show, The Drowsy Chaperone. When he first turns on his the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre phonograph and static breaks from the speakers, he wistfully tells the audience, "I love that sound.
the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre that’s the sound of a time machine starting up." By the time the first note sails out of his speakers, he's the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre been transported to a magical dream world, one where the actors in the recording enter his dingy apartment and the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre transform it into a gloriously garish set complete with seashell footlights, sparkly peacocks, glittery the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre sugarplum trees, and costumes that would put the Ice Capades to shame. The show-within-a-show centers on a the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre vain showgirl, who is about to marry a man she only just met, and her cigar-chomping producer, who doesn’t the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre want to lose his valuable starlet. What follows is a pastiche of every cliched plot thread ever written, the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre including mistaken identity, spit-takes, and gangsters on the lam, involving such campy characters as an the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre all-knowing English butler, a Latino Lothario, and a daffy, cartwheeling heroine. Watching from his armchair, the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre Man in Chair is torn between his desire to absorb every moment of the play as it unfolds and to insert his own the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre personal footnotes as he continuously brings the audience in and out of the fantasy.
The show had its start in 1999, when McKellar, Lambert, and Morrison created a spoof of old musicals for the the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre stag party before the wedding of their theatre friends Bob Martin and Janet Van De Graaff. In its first the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre incarnation, there was no Man in Chair, the musical styles ranged from the 1920s to the 1940s, and the jokes the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre were a lot more risqué. When the creators decided to reshape the show for the Toronto Fringe Festival, Martin the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre jumped on board as a co-writer and they created Man in Chair to serve as a narrator/commentator for the piece, the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre which underwent numerous changes as it made its way to Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille in 1999, the city's the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre Winter Garden in 2002, and Los Angeles in 2005.
After 32 previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, opened on May 1, the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre 2006 at the Marquis Theatre, where it continues to run. The original cast included Sutton Foster, Bob Martin, the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre Georgia Engel, Edward Hibbert, Jason Kravits, Beth Leavel, Danny Burstein, Eddie Korbich, and Jennifer Smith.
The Drowsy Chaperone was the first musical written and composed by Canadians to open on Broadway in 26 years. It is the country's second the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre successful Broadway musical, following in the footsteps of Baker Street, which ran the Drowsy Charperone New York tickets Marquis Theatre for 311 performances in 1965-66.
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