The Drowsy Chaperone

Principle Roles Available!

P.S. Productions in conjunction with Super Summer Theatre are holding auditions for principle roles within their currently rehearsing production of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE. The Tony Award winning “Musical Within a Comedy” will be presented July 13 – 30, at the Spring Mountain Ranch as part of the Super Summer Theatre 2011 season.

Roles available:

MAN IN CHAIR (40’s – 50’s) – The principle character and narrator of the show. He is a musical theatre aficionado lamenting the end of the Golden Era. His recording of "The Drowsy Chaperone" brings the show to life as he blissfully imagines the zany production bursting through the walls of his dreary apartment. The role requires light singing and a strong comedic delivery.

GANGSTER (20’s – 30’s) - Posing as a pastry chefs, intending to collect from Feldzieg, played by the vaudeville duo the Tall Brothers. Performer must be adept at physical and verbal comedy. Db3 - Gb4 (Tenors)

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE was nominated for many awards during its Broadway run and subsequent touring shows. It’s tantalizing score won the coveted Tony Award for the best musical score in 2006 along with The Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics.

The show begins when a die-hard musical-theatre fan drops the stylus down on his favorite album and the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love. The plot incorporates mistaken identities, dream sequences, an unflappable English butler, an absent-minded dowager, a ditzy chorine, a harried best man, an outrageous Latin lover, a pair of bumbling gangsters posing as pastry chefs and Janet's "Drowsy" (i.e. "Tipsy") Chaperone, played in the show-within-a-show by a blowzy Grande Dame of the Stage.
 
Ruses are played. Hi-jinks occur. And an airplane lands in the living room! THE DROWSY CHAPERONE spins a plot that transports everyone into musical comedy euphoria!

To get additional information or set up an audition appointment, please contact us via email. Contact information and additional show information is listed with THE DROWSY CHAPERONE audition information.