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#1

Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 12:22pm

Excellent choice, if you ask me.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#2

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 12:24pm

And this is where you would provide a link.....
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#4

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 12:26pm

It's on the main board. I think this is a good property for London. The british musicals of the 20s/30s were really more like the fictional DROWSY CHAPERONE than most on Broadway.

I wonder if they will change the references to the West End for London. It would seem to make sense to do that (to me).

Paige is a good choice. And she pretty much guarantees a second cast recording.
#11

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 12:55pm

I don't see Maria either...and I recall reading that Bob Martin would be opening with the show in London, but it was probably on these boards so a link wouldn't prove any more credibility to the speculation...
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#12

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 12:55pm

But how right is Elaine Paige for this? Somehow I don't see her as a comedienne.

I was thinking that Maria Friedman would make a great Margaret in "The Light in the Piazza".
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#14

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:00pm

Elaine Paige has done several comedies in the UK, like THE MISANTHROPE and WHERE THERE'S A WILL. And she was a hoot in ANYTHING GOES and SUNSET BOULVARD - she definitely has a flair for somewhat grotesque over the top characters, so I think she'll be fine with DC.
#15

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:01pm

I'm all up for this casting. Sounds good and I know Elaine could pull it off. But I am curious if they'd keep it in American/Broadway context. If not, they'd have to rewrite some bits here and there. Frankly, I think the "American-ism" of it makes it funny.

Bob would make sense to reprise the role in London, although there are talks of him travelling with the show to Toronto when the national tour launches...
#16

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:03pm

Thanks, MB. I'm sure the show will be great.

I can't wait to see who is cast in the tour.
Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

Updated On: 1/18/07 at 01:03 PM

#17

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:05pm

Well the American-ness is what makes it funny to an American, but obviously some of the jokes are going to be rewritten for UK audiences, whether or not the show-within-the-show of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is changed to an old musical from the West End of the 1920s.
#20

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:46pm

To the person who mentioned Bob Martin... I don't know if he'll be doing the tour, but he is leaving the Broadway company of Drowsy in March to open the London production. He said he'd return to New York in the fall.
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#21

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:50pm

This is going to give me a reason to see the show, and to go to London (as she is my favorite performer).
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
#22

re: Elaine Paige is London's Drowsy Chaperone, per BWW

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:52pm

Sutton's contract is up in April. The London production begins in May. Maybe...
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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