The New Drowsy Chaperone Thread
The New Drowsy Chaperone Thread
#0The New Drowsy Chaperone Thread
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:32pmDrowsy Chaperone is soon starting its "pre-Broadway" engagement in Los Angeles. Discuss amongst yourselves...
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
#1re: The New Drowsy Chaperone Thread
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:39pm
Here are some details of the story from the Canadian production:
The Drowsy Chaperone" begins with a narrator enticing the audience to sit with him while he plays the LP of one of his favorite old-time musicals. He then controls the action, setting the scenes and even skipping through one vaudeville routine he declares was once funny, but is now simply boring.
The story revolves around a Ziegfeld-style producer who's losing his leading lady to marriage, the gangsters who have invested in the show and don't like losing their star one bit, the shady Latin lover brought in to seduce the bride away who falls instead for her chaperone, the chorine who finally gets her big break and an aviatrix ("or feminist, as she's called now"), who serves as a deus ex machina.
Along the way our narrator informs us that, in real life, the bride was married 14 times, the groom was eventually killed by his "longtime companion" and the best man gave evidence at the McCarthy hearings and never worked again.
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
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#2re: The New Drowsy Chaperone Thread
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:13pmWell, it's definitely going to be different. I'm seeing it as an Ovation Voter on November 22.
#3re: The New Drowsy Chaperone Thread
Posted: 11/5/05 at 8:03pm
Here is the link to the program...
Drowsy Chaperone Program (PDF)
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
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