Champagne makes me drowsy...
Oct. 15th, 2007 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hesor how to bid farewell to the Drowsy Chaperone. :)
The Drowsy Chaperone is known as the Little Canadian musical that could... having made it from the stages of Toronto to the boards of the Marriott Marquis in New York as well as the Novello Theatre in London's West End. Garnering five Tony's in the the 2006 theatre season, it's now embarked upon its first National Tour and just wrapped up its run in Toronto at the Winter Garden/Elgin Theatre. :)
A two hour show that doesn't have an intermission, it is fast paced and moves the audience through the 'show-within-the-show' from start to end. The more I've listened to the show, the more I catch various references of ... Canadiana if you will... or so I'd like to think. :D
The Toronto Sun's pin-up girl photo was always on Page 3... until they shifted it to the very back of the newspaper. ;)
The Tour performances match my memories of the Original Broadway cast that I did see last September - and the critique that Nancy Opel was 'imitating' Beth Leavel ... I didn't see it. Bob Martin remains a highlight of the show - his final show performance saw him interacting with the "Drowsy" show-in-show concept even more than previously -- and he was even more enthusiastic than usual. :) It's a bittersweet departure for Bob Martin - his involvement with Drowsy as an actor ended yesterday... and unless he recreates the role somewhere else (and who wants to leave the new Man-in-(a-High)-Chair) we won't be hearing (or seeing) one of the original creators on stage.
Although there's no audio to show for the attendance at the Sunday matinée performance, I'm happy to be able to say that Bob Martin was ON -- there was some peanut-gallery-esque querying about getting a bite from Man-in-Chair's power bar (at the Intermission scene), and Bob turned it around on the dude... which was only matched by the rousing audience laughter. ;)
There were no curtain speeches but there was a prolonged standing ovation at the end of the performance. :)
The Drowsy Chaperone is known as the Little Canadian musical that could... having made it from the stages of Toronto to the boards of the Marriott Marquis in New York as well as the Novello Theatre in London's West End. Garnering five Tony's in the the 2006 theatre season, it's now embarked upon its first National Tour and just wrapped up its run in Toronto at the Winter Garden/Elgin Theatre. :)
A two hour show that doesn't have an intermission, it is fast paced and moves the audience through the 'show-within-the-show' from start to end. The more I've listened to the show, the more I catch various references of ... Canadiana if you will... or so I'd like to think. :D
REPORTERS
[sung]
Read her name in the news no more.
JANET
[spoken]
Page Three!
The Toronto Sun's pin-up girl photo was always on Page 3... until they shifted it to the very back of the newspaper. ;)
The Tour performances match my memories of the Original Broadway cast that I did see last September - and the critique that Nancy Opel was 'imitating' Beth Leavel ... I didn't see it. Bob Martin remains a highlight of the show - his final show performance saw him interacting with the "Drowsy" show-in-show concept even more than previously -- and he was even more enthusiastic than usual. :) It's a bittersweet departure for Bob Martin - his involvement with Drowsy as an actor ended yesterday... and unless he recreates the role somewhere else (and who wants to leave the new Man-in-(a-High)-Chair) we won't be hearing (or seeing) one of the original creators on stage.
Although there's no audio to show for the attendance at the Sunday matinée performance, I'm happy to be able to say that Bob Martin was ON -- there was some peanut-gallery-esque querying about getting a bite from Man-in-Chair's power bar (at the Intermission scene), and Bob turned it around on the dude... which was only matched by the rousing audience laughter. ;)
There were no curtain speeches but there was a prolonged standing ovation at the end of the performance. :)