6th Street Playhouse's THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Opens 1/13

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The Tony awarding-winning Broadway hit "The Drowsy Chaperone" is the ultimate love letter to musical theater as it delights with pure escapism when a man's vivid imagination transforms his drab apartment into a glittering showcase of show stopping singing and dancing, dazzling costumes and magical sets.

 

At the heart of this show within a show is the "man in the chair," who leads the audience in and out of reality when he plays the LP of his favorite cast recording "The Drowsy Chaperone," a fabled 1928 musical featuring all the usual suspects - a conflicted Broadway starlet and an eclectic parade of show people, servants, gangsters and absent-minded millionaires - all entangled in a classic, old-fashioned, musical-comedy of mix-ups and mayhem.

 

The "man in the chair" says his favorite show does what a musical is supposed to do. "It takes you to another world and gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue."