Upcoming: The Drowsy Chaperone, San Pedro Playhouse, San Antonio, May 13 - June

The San Pedro Playhouse, San Antonio

presents

The Drowsy Chaperone

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

May 18 - June 17

Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. (no performance on May 20)

San Pedro Playhouse, 800 West Ashby at San Pedro (click for map)

A rare combination of unprecedented originality and blinding talent, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE boldly addresses a great unspoken desire in all of our hearts: to be entertained. If you've ever sat in a dark theatre and thought, "Dear Lord in heaven, please let it be good," this is the show for you!

It all begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan plays his favorite cast album on his turntable, and the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love.

EXTRA: Exhibition Performance: The Drowsy Chaperone, McNay Art Museum , May 24, 6:30 p.m., free admission
Get a sneak peek of The Drowsy Chaperone with McNay favorites Chris Berry, Paige Blend, Roy Bumgarner, Anna Gangai, and Tim Hedgepeth. See Greg Barnes's Tony Award-winning costumes for the original Broadway production and hear Montana Blanco, Tobin Theatre Arts Fund Intern, discuss the recent acquisition of costumes designs. Wine reception to follow.

Click for cast list at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . .

Ongoing: The Drowsy Chaperone, musical, Vive Les Arts Theatre, Kileen, July 21 - August 7

UPDATE: Feature in the Killeen Daily Herald, July 21

Found on-line:

presents

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
July 22-23 at 7 p.m.
July 29 - August 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
Vive Les Arts Theatre
3401 South W.S. Young Drive - Killeen (click for map)

telephone (254) 526-9090 or purchase tickets on-line

A die-hard musical fan plays his favorite cast album, a 1928 smash hit called "The Drowsy Chaperone," and the show magically bursts to life. You'll be instantly immersed in the glamorous, hilarious tale of a celebrity bride and her uproarious wedding day, complete with thrills and surprises that take both the cast (literally) and the audience (metaphorically) soaring into the rafters.

The Drowsy Chaperone, Zach Theatre, June 24 - August 1

When I got home, still bubbling from Zach's The Drowsy Chaperone, I was ready to write, "Run, don't walk, to the Zach box office to get your first set of tickets for this sparkling evening of music, comedy and light-hearted fooling, a clever reincarnation of Broadway at its wonderful beginnings."

That's hyperbole, of course. Because you don't need to run anywhere. You just tap zachtheatre.org into your browser, click a couple of times and give them your payment details.

I must have been hearing Walter Winchell or Hedda Hopper in my head, even though I'm far too young ever to have listened to the Broadway gossip on a crystal radio set or on a cabinet-sized Philco in the living room. Though I can remember, just barely, the advent of the first color television broadcasts.

The Drowsy Chaperone is a zinger because Lambert, Morrison, Martin and McKellar lovingly spoof those energetic, naive and amazing beginnings of what became American musical theatre, admired across the world, while giving us a contemporary moderator and chorus -- in the Greek sense. Martin Burke as the anonymous Man in the Chair hosts us for an evening alone in his apartment with LP recordings of that mythical 1928 musical.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .