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.
This production is presented through a special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
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 an intoxicated 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 characterize the musical theatre genre.
Dates: Sat May 18 – Sun June 23, 2024 (Fri/Sat at 8 pm, Sun at 2 pm)
Tickets: $25 - $40
Suitable for most ages; contains some adult humor
Select dates May 18- June 23, 2024
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Workhouse Arts Center delivers a rollicking good 'Drowsy Chaperone' - DC Theater Arts