The Drowsy Chaperone

When a die-hard theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, the characters come to life in this hilarious Tony Award-winning musical farce.
 

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Golden Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and a 'drowsy' chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Hailed by New York Magazine as "The Perfect Broadway Musical," The Drowsy Chaperone is a masterful meta-musical, poking fun at all the tropes that characterise the musical theatre genre.

Performances

Thursday 31 July, 7.00pm - 11.00pm

Friday 1 August, 7.00pm - 11.00pm

Saturday 2 August, 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Saturday 2 August, 7.00pm - 11.00pm

ELTHAM College presents THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar

Original Broadway production of The Drowsy Chaperone produced by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Bob Boyett, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag and Jill Furman.

Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia).
All authorised performance materials are also supplied by Music Theatre International (Australasia).
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+10 and above with adult supervision, adult references mentioned in the dialogue, theatrical violence, strobe lighting effects.