The Drowsy Chaperone

by Bob Martin & Don McKellar; music & lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison.

February 17 - March 11, 2012 

The Adobe Theater's next production will be The Drowsy Chaperone, a comic "musical within a play" that won 5 Tony Awards and 7 Drama Desk Awards. The narrator (played by Ron Bronitsky) quickly bring us into the particulars of his world; a place where a treasured record of a classic musical comedy can transform his room into a stage right before our eyes, can stop and start the action at his whim, and can lay the foundation for a hysterical tale of a day in his life. The Drowsy Chaperone, written by Bob Martin and Don McKellar with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, opened on Broadway in 2006. This will be the first production of this show in Albuquerque.

The "musical within a play" is a fictitious 1928 show that features mistaken identities, dream sequences, spit takes, a blindfolded roller-skater, an unflappable English butler (Fred Schwab), an absent-minded dowager (Caroline Hogan), a ditzy chorine (Erin Allen), a harried best man (Zane Barker), an aviatrix (!) (Jessica Fisher) and a brides's "Drowsy" (i.e. tipsy) Chaperone (Erin Moody). It's wedding day for Janet Van De Graaff (Lisette Hererra), the star of Feldzieg's Follies, who plans to give up her career in order to marry oil tycoon Robert Martin (Tim MacAlpine). The Follies chief investor has hired two gangsters (Jason Adam Cox and Andrew Melendez) to see that Feldzieg (Ronan MacCabe) keeps Janet in the show. Feldzieg enlists Aldolpho (John Keisling), a bumbling Latin Lothario, to seduce Janet and end her relationship with Robert. Meanwhile, Janet is having her own doubts about her groom. You'll never guess how it all turns out.

Loretta Robinson is the musical director and Edye Allen is the choreographer.

This hilarious award-winning Broadway musical full of singing and dancing is a sure-fire hit for those of us who love musical theatre, and who maybe secretly have that one favorite show that they "star" in when no one else is looking!

Directors Jane and Cy Hoffman are thrilled to bring this musical to The Adobe Theater. "This show is everything a musical comedy should be: fast paced and very funny with infectious music and energetic dancing. Everyone will leave the theater with a smile on his face humming a tune."

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Ticket prices:
$15 General Admission
$13 Seniors or Students
Group rates are available.

Reservations strongly recommended for all shows. 

**Seats not claimed 10 minutes prior to curtain may be sold to walk-in patrons.**

Theater Location:
9813 Fourth Street NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico
(2 blocks north of Alameda Boulevard)

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Theater Main Number & Reservations:
505-898-9222