The Drowsy Chaperone – Broadway Senior Adaptation

A lonely Broadway devotee drops the needle on the cast album of a fictional 1928 musical, and the show bursts to life in his apartment: a star quitting the stage to marry, a frantic producer, gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and a chaperone too tipsy to do her job. This is "The Drowsy Chaperone SR.," Music Theatre International's hour-long Broadway Senior edition for performers 55 and older, played by DraMature, the resident senior troupe at the Manatee Performing Arts Center. The original, with songs by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, premiered at Toronto's Rivoli in 1998 and won five Tonys on Broadway.