Patrick Wetzel News

The Drowsy Chaperone, starring Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster, will charleston across the stage of the Marquis Theatre for its Broadway opening, tonight, May 1st

Ghostlight Records will record the original cast recording of the Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone, starring Sutton Foster; it will be released on June 13th

Tonight, April 3rd, The Drowsy Chaperone will begin Broadway previews at the Marquis Theatre

Be the first to get a special sneak peek of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, which begins performances on Broadway on Monday, April 3rd.

The Drowsy Chaperone will be featured on CBS-2 'News Sunday' on March 26th

The official website for the upcoming Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone--www.drowsychaperone.com--goes live today, March 21st

Today, March 13th, the box office for The Drowsy Chaperone at the Marquis Theatre opens

Tickets for The Drowsy Chaperone are now available to holders of American Express cards and will go on sale to the general public on March 12th

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, which begins performances on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on April 3, has received eight Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nominations for the acclaimed American premiere production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles that played from November 10 - December 24, 2005.

The show, will begin previews on April 3, 2006 and will open on May 1, 2006.

Danny Burstein, Lenny Wolpe, Beth Leavel and other performers complete the cast of the Broadway-bound The Drowsy Chaperone, opening at LA's Ahmanson Theatre on November 18th

ont size="2"> When you go to a fringe theatre festival it's expected you'll be choosing your entertainment from an assortment of one-person plays, avant-guarde pieces, multi-media productions and cutting edge social commentaries. In such an atmosphere, perhaps the most experimental type of theatre piece you can do nowadays is a traditionally structured, show-tune laden book musical with a ten piece orchestra (no synthesizers), a full singing/dancing/acting chorus and a plot that lightheartedly spoofs American politics without holding a particular politician or party up to ridicule. Back in the 1930's, before Saturday Night Live and The Onion, theatregoers would often get their political satire by taking in the latest hit Broadway musical. But shows like I'd Rather Be Right and Leave It to Me, big hits in their day, would be quickly be considered unrevivable because, as satire, the issues they dealt with dated quickly. But one exception was the Pulitzer Prize winning Of Thee I Sing, which eschewed taking it's plot from the latest headlines and instead explored the timeless theme of swaying public sympathy. That silly, gentle-humored spirit is re-created in Seth Bisen-Hersh (music and lyrics) and Daniel Scribner's (book and lyrics) charming gumdrop of a musical, The Spickner Spin.