WOB Hosts Auditions For THE DROWSY CHAPERONE 10/4

As the 2011 Season is fast approaching, The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has announced that it will add yet another regional premiere to its list of theatrical credits. Opening the theater's 17th Anniversary Season will be the over-the-top musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. Auditions for the theater's season-opener have been scheduled for Monday, October 4th.

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. Full of fun and over-the-top characters -- a bride who's giving up the stage for love, her dim but debonair bridegroom, a producer who sets out to sabotage the wedding, bumbling gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a flakey chorus girl, a Latin lothario and of course the drowsy chaperone -- The Drowsy Chaperone is a tribute to the early days of Broadway and is ready to, not only make its Western Maryland regional debut, but take it's place as Way Off Broadway's season-opener.

The Drowsy Chaperone takes the place of the previously announced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat after the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, the agents representing Andrew Lloyd Webber's works in the United States, said a potential tour of the show may be launching, thereby eliminating the rights for Joseph for regional productions.

Auditions will be held on Monday evening, October 4th beginning at 6:30 p.m. at The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre located along Route 40 West, Frederick's Golden Mile. Those auditioning are asked to bring a headshot and resume, as well as 16 bars of prepared music and be ready to sing, dance, and read from the script. All roles are non-union paying. The roles of "Man in Chair" and "Aldolpho" have already been cast. Those auditioning should be 18 years old or older. No appointments are necessary. A complete list of casting notes and details has been posted on the theater's website, www.wayoffbroadway.com.

The show will run January 21 - March 19, 2011 with performances every Friday and Saturday evening, matinees on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday of each month, and select Sunday evenings.
The Drowsy Chaperone has music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison with a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. Way Off Broadway's production will be directed by Justin M. Kiska and choreographed by Amanda Patten. Jordan Stocksdale will serve as musical director.
For additional information about Way Off Broadway, including all of its productions and events, contact the theater at (301) 662-6600 or visit www.wayoffbroadway.com.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has been a leader in the region's performing arts community since it first opened in 1995. Under the direction of the Kiska Family since 2002, WOB has produced such productions as A Funny Thing . . . Forum, Guys & Dolls, Steel Magnolias, Oklahoma!, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, The Odd Couple, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Evita, and Cats, as well as the regional and area premieres of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl - The Musical, Jerry Herman's La Cage aux Folles, the musical comedy The Wedding Singer, and Mel Brooks' The Producers. Located along Route 40 West, the Golden Mile in Frederick, the theatre also produces a one-of-a-kind children's lunch theatre, as well as countless special events throughout the year. Way Off Broadway's 2011 Mainstage Season features The Drowsy Chaperone, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, Hairspray, Chicago, and Christmas Tidings.

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