Fremd performing 'The Drowsy Chaperone' Nov. 2-5

Posted November 01, 2011 12:00 am

Submitted by District 211

Fremd High School's fall musical is “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a comedy within a musical. The show opened Wednesday, Nov. 2, and will have performances each evening beginning at 7 p.m. through Saturday, Nov. 5.

This performance boldly addresses a great unspoken desire in everyone's heart: to be entertained. The book and score pay tribute to the Jazz-age shows of the 1920s, and the power those shows held to transport people into a dazzling fantasy and lift spirits in times of sadness.

It all begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan plays his favorite cast album of a (fictional) Broadway musical entitled “The Drowsy Chaperone” on his turntable. No sooner has the needle touched the record than the audience is transported to a 1928 Broadway theater and into “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a play-within-a-play crammed full of every cliche, gag, and gimmick from the golden age of musicals.

The musical tells the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love. It opened on Broadway in 2006, and has won five Tony Awards. Tickets are $7.

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