The show was nominated for multiple Broadway and West End theatre awards, winning five Tony Awards and seven Drama Desk Awards. The Drowsy Chaperone debuted in 1998 at The Rivoli in Toronto, and, after a 2005 run in Los Angeles, opened on Broadway on May 1, 2006. As the record plays, the show - a parody of 1920s American musical comedy - comes to life onstage, as the man wryly comments on the music, story and actors. The story concerns 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. will fit perfectly into any company's season or school's calendar.The Drowsy Chaperone is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. Because of its many featured roles and all the signature Broadway Junior resources, The Drowsy Chaperone JR. "We know the exceptional work of book writers Bob Martin and Don McKellar and composers and lyricists Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison will resonate with young performers everywhere. “We are thrilled that The Drowsy Chaperone is getting the Broadway Junior treatment," says MTI President and CEO Drew Cohen.
With 13 nods, the work was one of the most Tony-nominated productions that year, ultimately winning five, including Book, Score, and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Beth Leavel (in the title role). The musical premiered in 1998 in a Canadian production, opening on Broadway in 2006. As the man explains every twist and turn in the campy story of a wedding and its wild bunch of attendees, the musical and its songs come to life around him. The work is a love letter to the musicals of yesteryear, with Broadway superfan Man in Chair walking audiences through the cast recording (on LP, of course) of a fictional musical titled, you guessed it, The Drowsy Chaperone. The 60-minute adaptation, created specifically for performers aged 18 and younger, is based on the 2006 Tony-nominated musical with a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and a score by Greg Morrison and Lisa Lambert. Music Theatre International has made The Drowsy Chaperone JR.
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