Dundalk Community Theatre opens its 2011/12 season with THE DROWSY CHAPERONE from Nov 4-13. This Broadway show that won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score features the talent of local favorites: Shannon Wollman, Patrick Martyn, Amy Pierson, Robert Tucker, Jeff Burch and Roger Schulman. Individual tickets are $23 for adults, $20 for senior adults and $15 for students/DCT Actors/Children 12 and under.
The Drowsy Chaperone is an homage to the American musical, centered on a character referred to as the Man in Chair. He is an agoraphobic fanatic of the fictional 1928 Broadway Musical Comedy named The Drowsy Chaperone. He starts by addressing the audience with his tale of this show and proceeds to invite the audience to listen to the album with him. As he plays the album the show comes to life in his apartment.
The musical comedy ensues...incorporating mistaken identities, dream sequences, an untraditional English butler, a dimwitted chorus girl, the bumbling Latino Lover and the "Drowsy" ("tipsy") Chaperone, a Grande Dame of the stage, who is not above upstaging her co-star. Watching from his seat, Man in Chair experiences the show as if it is his first time watching it, while inserting his own trivial knowledge of the show. He comically takes the audience in and out of the "show within a show" to its hysterical ending.
Director/Choreographer Tom Wyatt's brilliant direction leaves you feeling as if you saw the show on Broadway. The cast he gathered includes: Shannon Wollman, Patrick Martyn, Amy Pierson, Robert Tucker, Jeff Burch, Roger Schulman, Carley Callender, Lauren Everd, Beth Higbee, James Morton, Paula Montrie, Kevin Connell Muth, Laura Pierpont, Will Poxon, Ernie Ritchey, Sara Anne Simpkins, and Christina Tarnowski.
Show times are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday - Nov 4-13 in the John E. Ravekes Theatre, K Building. For tickets and information, call 443-840-2787. Patrons requiring special accommodations are urged to notify the Box Office at least two weeks in advance. The CCBC Box Office between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, or visit
www.ccbcmd.edu/performingarts/dct.html .
Dundalk Community Theatre is a program of the college, providing high-quality live theatre experiences for the entire family at affordable prices. Tom Colonna, a veteran actor and director, serves as the Managing Director for DCT. DCT is in residence at the Community College of Baltimore County, Dundalk, 7200 Sollers Point Road.
