THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Music & Lyrics by

LISA LAMBERT and GREG MORRISON

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

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, 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.

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. Because of its many featured roles and accessible script, The Drowsy Chaperone will fit perfectly into any company's season or school's calendar.

Book by

BOB MARTIN and DON MCKELLAR

Performance dates:

August 4, 5, & 6 and 11, 12, & 13

Directed by Chuck Phalen

Chuck Phalen is excited to be directing The Drowsy Chaperone. He has been a regular being involved with almost every Ghostlight production. Chuck stepped into directing with a ten minute play in Ghostlight’s Festival 10, and with Guys and Dolls as assistant director. You may remember him as The Conductor in Murder on the Orient Express, Greylag in HONK!, Stubby Nuggets in Misdeeds at Mistletoe Mine, the evil Professor Bartlett in The 39 Steps part of the Zoom production of Vintage Hitchcock, Juror #9 in 12 Angry Jurors, and the kindly grandfather Arvide in Guys and Dolls.

When not on stage you’ll find him behind a soundboard for Ghostlight, Pinole Community Players, and Pittsburg Theatre Company. Prior roles include Charlie in Brigadoon, Curly in Oklahoma, and Sky in Guys and Dolls among many other stage productions. He was even a part of Improvisational Family or IF a few decades ago. Chuck also enjoys composing and arranging music in his project recording studio in Martinez. For more about Mr. Phalen, check out chuckphalen.com.

Cast List

Man in Chair

Mrs. Tottendale

Underling

Robert Martin

George

Feldzieg

Kitty

Maria Allen

Angelina Phelan

Melissa Slavick

Savannah Turnage

Cheryl Ortiz

Kathryn Lopez

Mrs. Tottendale: Maria Allen

Kitty: Melissa Slavick

Janet Van De Graaf: Savannah Turnage

The Drowsy Chaperone: Nina Castle

Trix: Angelina Phelan