Martin and McKellar's TV Show 'Slings and Arrows' to Air

The third season of the critically acclaimed television series "Slings & Arrows," co-created by THE DROWSY CHAPERONE's Tony Award® winning authors Bob Martin and Don McKellar, premieres on The Sundance Channel this Sunday, February 18th at 8 p.m.  

The third season of "Slings & Arrows," the Canadian mini-series that follows the further fortunes of the comically dysfunctional repertory company as it struggles with artistic egos, conspiratorial board members, unstable actors and one meddlesome ghost, airs on The Sundance Channel (Channel 101 in Manhattan on Time Warner Cable). It also airs on "Showcase" in the creator's native Canada. Check your local listings.

The series' first season showed the fictional New Burbage Festival's creation of Hamlet, and season two offered Macbeth. In the third season, "Geoffrey Tennant" (Paul Gross), the artistic director, sets out to stage King Lear without his ghostly mentor, "Oliver Wells" (Stephen Ouimette), who is too busy "crossing-over".  THE DROWSY CHAPERONE author Don McKellar returns this season in an acting role as "Darren Nichols," Geoffrey's nemesis, set to direct the Festival's first "feel-good" musical, East Hastings.  The third season of "Slings & Arrows," features music by THE DROWSY CHAPERONE's Tony Award® winning composers, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison.

The most celebrated musical of the 2006 season and the recipient of thirteen major awards, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE received the most Tony Awards® of any musical -five in total, including Best Book (Bob Martin and Don McKellar) and Best Score (Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison), seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, four Outer Critic's Circle Awards including Outstanding Score and the Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is directed and choreographed by Tony Award® nominee Casey Nicholaw (Spamalot), with music and lyrics by Tony Award® winners Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and a book by Tony Award® winners Bob Martin and Don McKellar.

To chase his blues away, a modern day musical theatre addict known simply as "Man in Chair" drops the needle on his favorite LP – the 1928 musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. From the crackle of his hi-fi, the uproariously funny musical magically bursts to life on stage. Man in Chair's infectious love of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE speaks to anyone who has ever been transported by the theater.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Boyett Ostar, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag and Jill Furman.

For more information on "Slings & Arrows" visit:  www.acornmedia.com and www.sundancechannel.com.  Visit www.drowsychaperone.com for more on THE DROWSY CHAPERONE.