Director's Note:
The Drowsy Chaperone is a love letter to musical theater, which celebrates the genre’s magical ability to pull its audience into a world full of color, music, glamor and happy endings. When the show begins, we find our narrator feeling lonely and blue. To cheer herself up, she decides to play a record of her favorite 1920’s musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. As the needle falls, the fourth wall shatters and the show bursts to life in her living room. Lovingly spoofing old musicals, The Drowsy Chaperone, set in the Prohibition era, is packed full of every gimmick, bit cliché, and gag from musical theater’s golden age. There are zany characters, nonsensical plot twists, and show stopping tunes, and as we watch, our narrator comments on the show within a show from the perspective of a 21st century fan. If you’ve ever sat in a darkened theater hoping to be swept away to another world, hoping to be entertained, this show is for you.
Enjoy!
Dorit Katzenelenbogen, Director
