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The Drowsy Chaperone
Date and Time
Friday Jul 19, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EDTFriday, July 12 @7:30
Saturday, July 13 @7:30
Sunday, July 14 @2pm
Thursday, July 18 @7:30
Friday, July 19 @7:30
Saturday, July 20 @7:30
Sunday, July 21 @2pm
Thursday, July 25@7:30
Friday, July 26@7:30
Saturday, July 27@7:30
Sunday, July 28@2pm
Thursday, Aug 1@7:30
Friday, Aug 2@7:30
Saturday, Aug 3@7:30
Sunday, Aug 4@2pmLocation
Granite Theatre
1 Granite St
Westerly, RI 02891Fees/Admission
Youth $30.00
Seniors: $32.50
Adults: $35.00Website
Description
Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar
Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
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.
