friend sidekick best man anxious nervous shaky responsible tap dancer coordinator fearful foolish supportive chipper loyal. The frame story is about a lonely man named.'Man In Chair', who lives alone with his record collection. the present, apartment of the man in chair, and 1928, mrs. The score boasts such tunes as the scenery-chomping “Show Off”, the sizzling and silly “I Am Aldolpho”, the catchy “Toledo Surprise”, and “As We Stumble Along”, a rousing optimistic hilarious anthem. The Drowsy Chaperone is about a show girl, Janet Van De Graaff willing to give up show buisness to marry, oil tycoon, Robert Martin. The Man in Chair, a mousy, agoraphobic Broadway fanatic, seeking to cure his non-specific sadness, listens to a recording of the fictional 1928 musical comedy. The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical which opened at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1998 and then on Broadway in 2006, described by the Tag Line as 'a musical within a comedy'. This magical piece of meta-theatre and playful, heartfelt parody of the 1920s musical comedy features a chirpy jazz age score by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a lively, clever book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, both of which were Tony winners in 2006. A man, a bit lonely and weary of the modern world, beats the blues by dropping the needle on his favorite vinyl recording, a 1928 smash hit musical, The Drowsy. Such are the antics of The Drowsy Chaperone, a fictitious 1928 musical comedy. He is a fan of vintage musicals, who seems to be suffering from free-floating depression, and he quickly decides to cheer things up by playing a record of the original cast recording of a (fictional) Broadway musical entitled The Drowsy Chaperone.

But between Janets inebriated Chaperone, the oblivious hostess Mrs. It is left to the eager best man, George, to quite by accident break up the happy pair, when he sends groom Robert Martin out to the garden, blindfolded, and in roller skates. The audience is greeted by the narrator, Man in Chair, sitting on a darkened stage. The Drowsy Chaperone is a lavish 1920s musical with vaudeville gags and Charlestons galore Robert Martin is set to marry Janet van de Graaf, a young Broadway starlet giving up performing. Hiring Aldolpho, a passionate man who's more vain than virile, to seduce the bride, is unsuccessful, as Janet’s chaperone, a boozy diva, who gets herself mistaken for the bride and seduced in Janet’s place. Feldzieg, whose chief investor has sent two gangsters disguised as pastry chefs to make sure he stops the wedding. Tottenham hosts the wedding of the year, she gets a lot more than a write-up in the society pages: Janet Van de Graaff, glittering starlet of Feldzieg’s Follies, is leaving the stage for love, a turn of events which horrifies the angry and anxious Mr.

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