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The Drowsy Chaperone at The Edge Theater

Dates: 3/15/2024 - 3/30/2024

Theatre:

The Edge Theater

Surging Films & Theatrics

5451 N. Broadway
Chicago,IL 60640

Tickets: 35-45


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When a die-hard theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, the characters come to life in this hilarious Tony Award-winning musical farce. 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 When a die-hard theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, the characters come to life in this hilarious Tony Award-winning musical farce. 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 and his sidekick, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Latin Lothario, 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.theatre producer and his sidekick, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Latin Lothario, 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.

Tony Awards and Nominations for The Drowsy Chaperone

Year Category
2006 Best Musical



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