“Feldzieg” - an impatient and insensitive cigar-toting Broadway producer trying to get his star Janet to return to his show. He’s an over-confident buffoon that specializes in over-acting. ![]() “Adolpho” - a self-proclaimed “ladies man” with a fake-sounding accent. Tottendale’s savvy English butler who is thrifty and stiff yet has an understated sense of humor. “The Drowsy Chaperone” - Janet’s alcoholic confidant and friend. “George” - Robert’s anxious, dim-witted best man who always has Robert’s best-interests at heart. “Robert Martin” - the classic charming and handsome leading man, set to marry Janet. Tottendale” - a widow hosting the big wedding, she’s dizzy, forgetful, and oblivious to the mayhem around her. She knows she’s always being watched and tends to be a show off. “Janet Van De Graaf” – a starlet and ingenue, she’s leaving show business to marry Robert Martin. ![]() He narrates the show as he listens to the record on vinyl. The cast consists of: “Man In Chair” - a musical theatre aficionado who mourns the end of the Golden Era. Hailed by the 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. 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. ![]() As the record plays, the show, a parody of 1920s American musical comedy, comes to life onstage while the man in the chair wryly comments on the music, story and actors. With the house lights down, a middle- aged, asocial musical theater fan who, feeling “blue”, decides to play for the audience an LP of his favorite musical, the fictional 1928 show “The Drowsy Chaperone”. With music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Gregg Morrison and book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, this musical within a comedy will keep you laughing with songs including “As We Stumble Along”, “Show Off”, “Toledo Surprise”, “Accident Waiting To Happen” and “Fancy Dress”. 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. The Waupaca Community Theatre is announcing auditions for its summer 2023 musical production of “The Drowsy Chaperone”.
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