Larry Blank, Phil Reno, and Glen Kelly Join The Drowsy Chaperone Team
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 15, 2005
The Drowsy Chaperone, a frothy toast to the musicals of the twenties, will star Sutton Foster and Georgia Engel in its Broadway-bound premiere at the Center Theatre Group. It will run at the Ahmanson Theatre in LA from November 18th through December 24th, with previews set to begin on November 10th.
The show, with bride Janet Van de Graaff as one of the producers, was presented some years back at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Mounted there at a budget of $2,000, it took $20,000 for David and Ed Mirvish to produce it at The Passe Muraille and $1 million for its 2001 staging at the Winter Garden Theater in Toronto. When Miller arranged for a 45-minute condensation of the show to be presented at New York's National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the show charmed audiences and Miller teamed up with an interested McCollum. The show was to have played the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer, but then-artistic director Michael Richie signed on with LA's Center Theater Group, whose resident theatre is the 2,000-seat Ahmanson.
Nicholaw, who has been attached to the project since the day after Spamalot's opening, previously choreographed Bye Bye Birdie and Can-Can at Encores!, as well as the New York Philharmonic staged concert of Candide and Sinatra: His Voice, His World, His Way at Radio City Music Hall, among others.
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