The tour cast also features Cliff Bemis (Mr. Tony nominee Nancy Opel ( Urinetown, Fiddler on the Roof) plays the title role, and Georgia Engel ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show") re-creates her Broadway role of the absent-minded Mrs. He'll be replaced once the tour moves on. He also played Man in Chair in London in the summer. Martin (who won a Best Book Tony with McKellar and was Tony-nommed as Best Actor) stars in the tour launch, in his hometown. When he plays the scratchy cast album, the musical comes to life around him in his shabby studio apartment. The Drowsy Chaperone concerns a reclusive, ardent musical theatre fan named Man in Chair, who introduces us to his fave show, a 1928 treat called The Drowsy Chaperone. The team refined the warm-hearted, daffy show for Broadway, where it won five 2006 Tonys, including Best Book and Best Score. Toronto fringe and commercial stagings of The Drowsy Chaperone caught the eyes and ears of producers, who matched an American creative team (including director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw) to the Canadian writers - librettists Martin and Don McKellar and songwriters Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison. thought the lark had the potential to be expanded. His pals in the Toronto theatre community created a daffy twenties spoof to toast his new marriage to Janet Van De Graaff. 14 began as a scrappy wedding gift written and performed for actor-writer Bob Martin. The show playing Toronto's Elgin Theatre Sept.
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