The Drowsy Chaperone To Open on Broadway

[Bridget MacIntosh]

  Dear Colleagues,
   
  I just wanted to pass along some fantastic news. "The Drowsy Chaperone" the musical hit that began at the 1999 Toronto Fringe Festival with successful remounts at Theatre Passe-Muraille and Wintergarden Theatre (Mirvish Productions) will be opening on Broadway on May 1st. The story from the Toronto Star is pasted below. There is also another story in todays' Globe and Mail by Simon Houpt at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre/
   
  Best,
  Bridget MacIntosh
  Producer
  The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival
   
    Drowsy to wake up Broadway
  Feb. 9, 2006. 01:00 AM
  RICHARD OUZOUNIAN

  The Drowsy Chaperone is about to meet up with the City That Never Sleeps. 
  
  The Star has learned the musical romp first produced at the 1999 Toronto Fringe Festival will open May 1 on Broadway, just before the May 10 cutoff for this year's Tony nominations. 
  
  Despite a successful tryout at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in November and December, it was assumed the show would have to delay coming to New York, due to the shortage of theatres available. 
  
  However, the sudden Feb. 19 closing of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White meant the Marquis Theatre would soon be vacant. An official announcement of Drowsy's arrival is expected shortly. 
  
  With a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, lyrics by Lisa Lambert and music by Greg Morrison, the show was originally conceived as a bachelor party sketch to celebrate the 1998 wedding of Martin and Janet Van De Graaff. 
  
  It was expanded into the hit of the 1999 Fringe and was remounted at Theatre Passe Muraille later that year to sellout crowds. It finally wound up at the Winter Garden in 2001 as part of the Mirvish season. 
  
  It vanished off the radar for a few years, but producer Roy Miller brought it to the 2004 Festival of New Musicals in New York, where it sparked a bidding war. Kevin McCollum (Avenue Q) and Bob Boyett (Spamalot) signed up, as did Michael Ritchie, the artistic director of L.A's Center Theatre Group, which hosted its tryout late last year. 
  

    Richard Ouzounian

   
     



		
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