The Drowsy Chaperone
by Lakeway Players

Aug. 14 - Aug. 18 (2018)

The ‘Man in Chair’, a mousy, agoraphobic Broadway fanatic, seeking to cure his "non-specific sadness", listens to a recording of the fictional 1928 musical comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone. As he listens to this rare recording, the characters appear in his apartment, and it is transformed into an impressive Broadway set with, sparkling furniture, painted backdrops, and glitzy costumes. ‘Man in Chair’ provides a running commentary throughout the show from the stage, though he is on the audience side of the fourth wall, invisible to the players. 
The plot incorporates mistaken identities, dream sequences, spit takes, an unflappable English butler, an absent-minded dowager, a Broadway impresario and his Follies production, comic gangsters, a ditzy chorus girl, a harried best man, and a "Drowsy" (i.e. "tipsy") Chaperone, played by a blowzy Grande Dame of the Stage, specializing in "rousing anthems" and not above upstaging the occasional co-star.

 

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THE LAKEWAY PLAYERS ANNOUNCE AUDITIONS FOR

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
A musical within a comedy