Playing The Drowsy Chaperone.
The Drowsy Chaperone
February 7-23, 2019 at French Creek Theatre
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Music/Lyrics - Greg Morrison, Lisa Lambert
Book - Bob Martin, Don McKellar
Director/Music Director - Jordan Cooper
Choreographer - Kristy Cruz
MAN IN THE CHAIR - Jonathan Kronenberger
ROBERT - Adam Rawlings
JANET - Kaylea Nicole Kudlaty
GEORGE - Andrew Keller
DROWSY - Amiee Collier
ALDOLPHO - Trey Gilpin
MRS. TOTTENDALE - Kate Leigh Michalski
UNDERLING - Brian Altman
FELTZIG - John J. Polk
KITTY - Meg Martinez
GANGSTER #1 - Anthony Savage-Williams
GANGSTER #2 - Adam Patterson
TRIX - Sara Danielle Chapman
WOMAN 1 - Neely Gevaart
WOMAN 2 - Zenzi Pelligree
WOMAN 3 - Emma Clark
MAN 1 / SUPERINTENDANT - Aaron T Phillips
MAN 2 - Michael Emery Fox
In a loving send-up of the frivolously inconsequential stage musicals of the Jazz Age, a fan known only as Man in Chair gives a spin to the original cast recording of one such musical, providing the audience with amusing minutiae about the play and the players.
When wealthy widow Mrs. 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. Feldzieg, whose chief investor has sent two gangsters disguised as pastry chefs to make sure he stops the wedding. Hiring Aldolpho, a Latin lover more vain than virile, to seduce the bride, is unsuccessful, as Janet’s chaperone, a drunken diva, gets herself mistaken for the bride and seduced in Janet’s place. 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. Such are the antics of The Drowsy Chaperone, a fictitious 1928 musical 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. The score boasts such tunes as the scenery-chomping “Show Off”, the sizzling and silly “I Am Aldolpho”, the double-entendre laden “Toledo Surprise”, and “As We Stumble Along”, that rousing anthem to optimistic alcoholism.
The Drowsy Chaperone
February 7-23, 2019 at French Creek Theatre
Get tickets
Music/Lyrics - Greg Morrison, Lisa Lambert
Book - Bob Martin, Don McKellar
Director/Music Director - Jordan Cooper
Choreographer - Kristy Cruz
MAN IN THE CHAIR - Jonathan Kronenberger
ROBERT - Adam Rawlings
JANET - Kaylea Nicole Kudlaty
GEORGE - Andrew Keller
DROWSY - Amiee Collier
ALDOLPHO - Trey Gilpin
MRS. TOTTENDALE - Kate Leigh Michalski
UNDERLING - Brian Altman
FELTZIG - John J. Polk
KITTY - Meg Martinez
GANGSTER #1 - Anthony Savage-Williams
GANGSTER #2 - Adam Patterson
TRIX - Sara Danielle Chapman
WOMAN 1 - Neely Gevaart
WOMAN 2 - Zenzi Pelligree
WOMAN 3 - Emma Clark
MAN 1 / SUPERINTENDANT - Aaron T Phillips
MAN 2 - Michael Emery Fox
In a loving send-up of the frivolously inconsequential stage musicals of the Jazz Age, a fan known only as Man in Chair gives a spin to the original cast recording of one such musical, providing the audience with amusing minutiae about the play and the players.
When wealthy widow Mrs. 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. Feldzieg, whose chief investor has sent two gangsters disguised as pastry chefs to make sure he stops the wedding. Hiring Aldolpho, a Latin lover more vain than virile, to seduce the bride, is unsuccessful, as Janet’s chaperone, a drunken diva, gets herself mistaken for the bride and seduced in Janet’s place. 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. Such are the antics of The Drowsy Chaperone, a fictitious 1928 musical 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. The score boasts such tunes as the scenery-chomping “Show Off”, the sizzling and silly “I Am Aldolpho”, the double-entendre laden “Toledo Surprise”, and “As We Stumble Along”, that rousing anthem to optimistic alcoholism.