THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

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Presented by the WEBER HIGH PRODUCTIONS COMPANY

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

The Drowsy Chaperone is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
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Music and Lyrics by
Lisa Lambert and
Greg Morrison

Book by
Bob Martin and
Dan McKellar

Original Broadway production of The Drowsy Chaperone
produced by
Kevin McCullum, Roy Miller, Bob Boyett, Stephanie McClelland,
Barbara Freitag and Jill Furman.

PRODUCTION STAFF

Productions Company Director / Technical Direction
MARK DANIELS

Productions Company Director / Choreographer
LINDSEY POLL

Director / Music Direction
JACOB HEYWOOD

Costume Designer / Wardrobe Supervisor
STEPHANIE PETERSEN

Seamstress
CRYSTAL WALKER

Wardrobe Assistant
STACEY ROUNDY

Stage Manager
ABIGAIL HUNT

Assistant Stage Manager
BRETT OVERDIEK

Set Design
DANNY RASH / LINESET DESING AND FABRICATION

Light Design
LILY WOOLSEY, HAYLIE SQUIRE, SAM HUNSAKER

Sound Design
MILES HALLEY, EVIE AUGER, HARPER RINDESBACH

Spotlights
BODEN CLUSTER, DAVID GRECO,
SKY FORSBERG, LILAH CALDERWOOD

Musical Tracks
MIA BINGHAM

Running Crew
CHLOE STARK, SAYDEE ROGERS, SAM EMERSON

House Manager
KATELYN SPENCER

Concessions
ZACH ELDREDGE, MALLORY SMITH

Student Scenic Painters / Carpet Layers
WHS STAGE CREW
AND SOME AMAZING STUDENT ACTORS - THANK YOU

Prop and Furniture Donations
TYLER BINGHAM

Headshot Photographer
JENN BUTLER

Show Photographer and Cast Photo
HEIDI MILLER

SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE WONDERFUL PARENTS WHO HELPED WITH SEWING AND PROPS

Box Office Manager
LACEY EMPEY

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Tyler Modesitt as The Man in Chair

Emorie King as the Chaperone

Mylie Harkness as Janet Vandergraaf

Sam Taylor and Sam Marriott as the Gangsters

SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS

PROLOGUE
TOTTENDALE'S ENTRANCE HALL - MORNING
FANCY DRESS - COMPANY

ROBERT'S ROOM - MORNING
COLD FEETS - ROBERT, GEORGE, COMPANY TAPPERS

TOTTENDALE'S POOL - EARLY AFTERNOON
SHOW OFF - JANET, COMPANY

ENTRANCE HALL -AFTERNOON

JANETS BRIDAL SUITE - AFTERNOON
AS WE STUMBLE ALONG - THE CHAPERONE
I AM ALDOLPHO - ALDOLPHO, THE CHAPERONE, TANGO DANCERS

TOTTENDALE'S GARDEN - AFTERNOON
ACCIDENT WATING TO HAPPEN - ROBERT, JANET

TOTTENDALE'S SALON - AFTERNOON
TOLEDO SUPRISE - COMPANY
ACT 1 FINAL - COMPANY

COURTYARD - AFTERNOON
BRIDE'S LAMENT - JANET, COMPANY

HALLWAY - LATE AFTERNOON
LOVE IS ALWAYS LOVELY IN THE END - MRS. TOTTENDALE, UNDERLING

JANET'S BRIDAL SUITE - LATE AFTERNOON

TOTTENDALE'S GARDEN - SUNSET
I DO, I DO IN THE SKY - TRIX, COMPANY

WRAP UP
AS WE STUMBLE ALONG (REPRISE) - COMPANY

Owen Talbot as Robert Martin

Evelyn Stephens as Kitty and Jonah Bowles as Mr. Feldzieg

Novali Clarke-Weir as the Aviatrix

CAST OF CHARACTERS

CAST LIST (BY ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

MAN IN CHAIR
Tyler Modesitt

MRS TOTTENDALE
Hannah Jolley
(E'owyn Peterson will play Tottendale at the Matinee performances)

UNDERLING
Aiden bindrup

ROBERT MARTIN
Owen Talbot

GEORGE
Porter Munson

FELDZIEG
Jonah Bowles

KITTY
Evelyn Stephens

GANGSTER #1
Sam Marriot

GANGSTER #2
Sam Taylor

ALDOLPHO
Mitchell Morgan

JANET
Mylie Harkness

THE CHAPERONE
Emorie King

TRIX, THE AVIATRIX
Novali Clark-Weir

THE SUPERINTENDANT
Davis Rawson

ENSEMBLE: STAFF, REPORTERS, ETC.
The Productions Co.

Mitchell Morgan as Aldolpho

Aiden Bindrup as Underling and Hannah Jolley as Mrs. Tottendale

Porter Munson as George

Davis Rawson as the Superintendant

MEET THE CAST

TECH CREW

Abigail Hunt STAGE MANAGER

Brett Overdiek ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Evie Auger SOUND TECH

Mia Bingham TRACKS

Lilah Calderwood SPOT LIGHTS

Boden Cluster SPOT LIGHTS

Thomas Craven RUNNING CREW

Zach Eldredge CONSESSIONS

Sam Emerson RUNNING CREW

Lauren Sky Forsberg SPOT LIGHTS

David Greco SPOT LIGHTS

Miles Halley SOUND TECH

Sam Hunsaker LIGHT TECH

Jackson Joy RUNNING CREW

Landon Riggs RUNNING CREW

Harper Rindlesbach SOUND TECH

Saydee Rogers RUNNING CREW

Mallory Smith CONCESSIONS HEAD

Katelyn Spencer HOUSE MANAGER

Haylie Squire LIGHT TECH

Chloe Stark RUNNING CREW

Lily Woolsey LIGHT TECH

PRODUCTION HISTORY

This project began when Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert, and Greg Morrison wanted to create a parody of old fashioned musicals for Bob Martin and Janet Van de Graaf’s stag party. The three of them had known Bob since high school and were all fond of musicals from that era. They staged the earliest version of The Drowsy Chaperone at the Rivoli Night Club in Toronto in 1999, charging guests admission fees to help pay for the cost of Martin and Van de Graaf’s wedding. Upon watching the work of his friends, Bob Martin was so excited about the show that he joined the creative team as a librettist in addition to playing the newly-created role of Man in Chair. The four of them soon reworked the project for submission to the 1999 Toronto Fringe Festival, where it caught the eye of David Mirvish, a Toronto-based commercial theatre producer. Mirvish financed an expanded production of The Drowsy Chaperone to open at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraill. Continued success led Mirvish to finance further development, resulting in a full-scale production at Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre.

It was during this run that Linda Intaschi, an associate producer of Mirvish productions, invited Roy Miller, a prominent New York producer, to the show. Miller was impressed with what he saw and optioned the rights. Along with the help of Canadian actor and fundraiser Paul Mack, Miller produced a reading for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre on October 5, 2005. Broadway producer Kevin McCollum attended the reading and was so interested that he and Miller, along with several others, committed to fully producing the show. The show soon had an out-of-town engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 2005. The Drowsy Chaperone opened on Broadway on May 1, 2006 with Sutton Foster as Janet Van de Graaf, Danny Burstein as Adolpho, Georgia Engel as Mrs. Tottendale and Beth Leavel as The Drowsy Chaperone. It ran for 674 performances and won five Tony Awards (Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best
Featured Actress, Best Scenic Design, and Best Costume Design) as well as seven Drama Desk Awards.

After the close of the Broadway production, the show began its run in London’s West End with Bob Martin reprising his role of Man in Chair. However, the show was met with less success than the Broadway production and closed after fewer than 100 performances. The show has since seen productions in Japan, Australia, Brazil, and Finland. Listen to the American Theatre Wing interview with Bob Martin
as he chronicles the journey of The Drowsy Chaperone from sophisticated bachelor party entertainment to success on the Toronto fringe to full-scale Broadway musical:

https://soundcloud.com/american-theatre-wing/episode104

A NOTE FROM ONE OF THE DIRECTORS

There is something truly special about this cast. From the first read-through to the final moments of rehearsal, this group has reminded me why I love teaching and directing theatre. They are wildly talented, fearless in their comedy, and deeply committed to each other. The Drowsy Chaperone is a clever, fast-moving, joyfully ridiculous show, and this cast has embraced every ounce of its humor, heart, and theatrical chaos. Their timing, physical comedy, and ability to tell this story while winking at the audience is a testament to how smart, hardworking, and genuinely funny they are.
I have been directing theatre for 29 years, and I still get the same feeling I did the very first time I sat in a dark auditorium and watched a show come to life. There is nothing quite like it. This musical celebrates the magic of theatre itself, the absurdity, the joy, and the way a story can lift us out of our everyday lives for a while. I am so proud of this production and grateful for the laughter, creativity, and trust this cast has shared with me. Thank you for supporting Weber High School Theatre and for joining us tonight. Sit back, relax, and let the comedy take over.

Mark Daniels
Director, Weber High School Theatre

MEET THE WRITERS

LISA LAMBERT (Music and Lyrics): Lisa Lambert technically originated the role of the Drowsy Chaperone, playing the titular character during its nightclub debut. In 2006, she won the Tony Award for Best Original Score for her work on The Drowsy Chaperone. In creating the score, Lambert cited a love of 1920s musicals—and even the movies of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers — as inspiration. Other stage credits include: Big Rosemary (book by Blake Edwards); Cole Escola: First Gay President (Duplex Cabaret); Stars of David (DR2 Theater); The Ant and the Elephant (Work Light Productions); Honest Ed: The Bargain Musical (Poor Alex Theater), as well as works in The Fringe of Toronto Festival and at Second City. Her work also extends to film and television, including Slings & Arrows, Sensitive Skin, Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays, Highway 61, Blue, The Boy Who Smells Like Fish (Rhombus Media), Skippy’s Rangers: The Show They Never Gave, The Joe Blow Show (Comedy Network), Portrait of a Serial Monogamist (directed by John Mitchell), Pete’s Christmas (Nelvana Ltd.), Battery’s Down, and Skinnamarink TV. Upcoming projects include Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day with music by Greg Morrison and book by Robert Harling as well as a film adaptation of The Drowsy Chaperone.

GREG MORRISON (Music and Lyrics): Greg Morrison won Drama Desk Awards for both Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics for his work on The Drowsy Chaperone. His Canadian credits include: Composer/musical director for Hello...Hello (Tarragon Theatre); Pochsy's Lips; Oh, Baby; Citizen Pochsy; and Pochsy Unplugged (Toronto Fringe, Canadian/U.S. tours); The Drowsy Chaperone (Toronto Fringe, Theatre Passe Muraille, Mirvish Production, Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto); Mump and Smoot in Something Else (Canadian Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre); Mump and Smoot in Flux (Canadian Stage); An Awkward Evening With Martin & Johnson (Tim Sims Playhouse); The Age of Dorian (Artword Theatre). TV songwriter credits: Slings & Arrows (Rhombus Media for Showcase/Sundance), Getting Along Famously (CBC), The Joe Blow Show (Comedy Network). Other credits: musical director for the Second City National Touring Company, Alumni Café (Tim Sims Playhouse), The Chumps and the Muchrakers (CBC Radio).

BOB MARTIN (Book): Prior to his work on The Drowsy Chaperone, Martin was a creative director for The Second City Theater Toronto, where he co-wrote and performed in four revues, directing three of the four. After continued success performing sketch comedy with them, Martin went on to co-create the Canadian cult TV show Slings & Arrows. He originated the role of Man in Chair for the Broadway production of The Drowsy Chaperone in 2006 and reprised the role for the show’s run in the West End in 2007. His recent theatrical credits include writing the book for the musical adaptation of the 1973 film The Sting, which opened at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey in April. Recent TV projects include: Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays I & II (CBC), Sensitive Skin I & II (HBO), and Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (NBC). Recent theatre projects include Elf (Broadway) and Minsky's (Ahmanson LA).

DON McKELLAR (Book): Before collaborating on The Drowsy Chaperone, Don McKellar had a substantial career as a filmmaker, including acting opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Oscarwinning The Red Violin (1998). His screenwriting credits include the film adaptation of Blindness, a novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago as well as co-writing the critically-acclaimed Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould. He made his directorial debut with two short films: Blue (starring David Cronenberg) and Bloody Nose, and he made his feature directing debut in 1998 on Last Night, which won the Prix de la Juenesse at the Cannes Film Festival. For television, he directed his TV series Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays in 2012; as an actor, he has appeared as Curtis in two seasons of Twitch City, voiced the character Jack in five seasons of Odd Job Jack, and as theatre director Darren Nicholls in Slings & Arrows. McKellar studied English and Theater at the University of Toronto, co-founded Childs Play Theatre, and in 1989 he co-founded the Augusta Company. In 2016, he was made a member of the Order of Canada for his contributions as an actor, writer, and director.

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A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT THE 1920'S MUSICAL

The 1920s in the United States was a decade of great prosperity and innovation. Technology was advancing faster than ever before, and with the advent of radio and film, people across the country could keep up with current events much more regularly. In the world of entertainment, musical comedy was also on the rise. Audiences loved the jazz-inspired music and the common themes and tropes of the time: the clash of high-brow and low-brow culture, cases of mistaken identity, bumbling gangsters, plot twists, showgirls, slapstick comedy, a dose of deus ex machina, and a wedding to cap off the night.

In The Drowsy Chaperone, a pastiche of those 1920s comedies, we see all the elements of a true Gershwin era musical. Janet and George supply the love story that holds the piece together, and they even get to dabble with disguise and mistaken identity along the way. The absentminded dowager, Mrs. Tottendale, and her Underling (known only as “Underling” in the show) provide the contrast of high-brow and lowbrow culture when juxtaposed against theater producer Feldzieg and the gangsters— disguised as chefs—who, on orders from their boss, are determined to steer Janet back toward show business and away from married life with George.

Other twenties necessities are also sprinkled throughout the plot, including bootlegged booze under Prohibition, the over-thetop lover Aldolpho, and deus ex machina in the form of a literal machine: an airplane (aviation as entertainment was all the rage at the time) piloted by Trix the Aviatrix. With all the twists and turns of early musical comedy, many of them employed this technique borrowed from the Greeks in which, out of the sky, a character appears to resolve the plot and tie up loose ends.

Beyond capturing the spirit of twenties musical comedy in its characters and plot, The Drowsy Chaperone also accesses the sounds of the era through its jazzy score inspired by those of the composers of the time: the Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin, to name a few. In the twenties, musical comedy composers were inspired by and borrowed from the African American musicians who invented jazz in the nightclubs of cities like New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. Though an improvisational art form, composers of musicals and vaudeville acts endeavored to recreate the feeling of this new type of American music in their compositions: rhythmic but freeform, melodic yet unpredictable. The music also inspired new styles of dance like the Charleston that were more individualized than the dances of previous generations.

The decade of the twenties introduced so many enduring elements of our popular culture, not the least of which is musical comedy, and The Drowsy Chaperone captures the spirit not only of those early musicals but also of those who love them still. Just as the audiences of those original musical comedies sought light-hearted, escapist entertainment, so too does the Man in the Chair as he takes you along on the journey of The Drowsy Chaperone.

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