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WINNER!
Five Tony Awards
Including Best Music and Best Book
“DELIGHTFUL, SPARKLING ENTERTAINMENT! You’ll be over the moon! We haven’t seen anything quite this original in a long time.”
- Michael Kuchwara,
Associated Press
From its premiere at the Ahmanson to a big hit on Broadway, it’s coming home again for a very limited engagement.
Get ready to be transported to a magical, wonderful world where the critics are in awe, the audiences are in heaven and the neighborhood is buzzing with excitement.
Welcome to THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, the musical comedy with tons of laughs and the most
2006 Tony® Awards of any musical on Broadway! It all begins when a die-hard musical fan plays his favorite cast album, a 1928 smash hit called “The Drowsy Chaperone,” and the show magically bursts to life. We are instantly immersed in the glamorous, hilarious tale of a celebrity bride and her uproarious wedding day, complete with thrills and surprises that take both the cast (literally) and the audience (metaphorically) soaring to the rafters. Click to view a PBS special interview with writer Bob Martin about the creation of The Drowsy Chaperone.
“You’re unlikely to have as funny an evening of theater this season as you will at this hilarious, side-splitting show.”
- Jeffrey Lyons,
WNBC TV
“INGENIOUS! Few productions have ever pulled an audience so immediately and unconditionally on their side.”
- Ben Brantley,
The New York Times
“CLEVER, GLEEFUL and INTELLIGENT!”
- John Lahr,
The New Yorker
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Ken Werther is a CTG Press Associate.
As I anxiously await the opening night of Minsky’s at the Ahmanson, I’ve been taking a mental stroll down memory lane. A little over three years ago, in October 2005, The Drowsy Chaperone, a show no one had ever heard of, was in rehearsal at the Music Center Annex for [...]
