THE DROWSY CHAPERONE to be Presented at Middletown Arts Center in February
Show Dates are February 28 – March 9, 2025.
The MAC Players at the Middletown Arts Center will present the musical within a comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone, over two weekends, February 28 – March 9, 2025. An accomplished, live orchestra will accompany The MAC Players, led by Director Kate Cordaro, Musical Director Eric Sayre and Choreographer Samantha Amaral. Hailed by New York Magazine as “The perfect Broadway Musical,” The Drowsy Chaperone’s original Broadway run was produced by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Bob Boyett, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag and Jill Furman.
The Tony Award-winning The Drowsy Chaperone brings to life a forgotten Jazz Age Musical in the living room of a diehard theatre fan. As he eagerly spins his favorite cast album, a hilarious vintage show suddenly appears, exploding with song, dance and pure entertainment.
SHOWTIMES
Fri, February 28 and Sat, March 1 at 7 p.m. | Sun, March 2 at 2 p.m.
Fri, March 7 and Sat, March 8 at 7 p.m. | Sun, March 9 at 2 p.m.
ABOUT THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
With the house lights 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, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight. The Drowsy Chaperone is a masterful meta-musical, poking fun at all the tropes that characterize the musical theater genre.
The MAC Players production features Kevin McGee (The Man in Chair), Meredith Buchholtz (The Drowsy Chaperone), Elizabeth Molfetto (Janet Van De Graaff), Renee Green (Mrs. Tottendale), Justin Grossman (Underling), Patrick Comey (Robert Martin), Brenden Kortenhaus (George), Justin Jajalla (Aldolfo), Colleen Gilgan (Kitty), Trish Tyler (Gangster 1), Jeni Star (Gangster 2), John Paul Durazzo (Mr. Feldzieg), Jessica Vincello (Trix), Madison Steinert-Santangelo (Ensemble), Kimberly Gelfand (Ensemble), Jazmynn Perez (Ensemble), Anna Blaine (Ensemble), Thomas Fulbrook (Ensemble/Superintendent), Brittany Ahr (Ensemble) and Natalie Dunn (Ensemble).
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