Since opening on Broadway in 2006, the show has won five Tony Awards, including for Best Book and Best Original Score. “The Drowsy Chaperone,” which debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1998, has received critical acclaim. I just hope this show can be a reminder that we can all find people who make us feel loved and keep us from feeling lonely.”
“We all have things that help us escape for a bit when this world gets to be too much. “Thank goodness ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ exists to lift their spirits,” wrote stage director Justin Johnson in the program notes. The Person in Chair’s solitary existence is a nod to the isolation and loneliness experienced by many people during COVID, while the character’s deep connection with the musical serves as a reminder of the healing power of music. In the post-COVID era, the BM/MT program wanted to make their production of “The Drowsy Chaperone” relevant for the CU community. “It is a fine line to walk between effective satire and being inappropriate.” “The show is a satire, a commentary on the ways that Broadway shows in the past have reduced people from other cultures to stereotypes that we find comedic for entertainment value,” said music director Collin Sinclair, a CU alum who graduated earlier this year. 10-13, offers a modernized version of the satirical musical that is more culturally sensitive and inclusive. 10, the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music’s BM/MT program will present the opening night of “The Drowsy Chaperone” in the Imig Music Building’s Music Theater space. Soon, lively jazz tunes begin pouring out of their old record player, and their beloved, cliché 1920s era show comes to life - featuring a glamorous Broadway starlet, a sabotaged wedding, mistaken lovers, spontaneous engagements, plotting gangsters and cheesy anthems. A fan of vintage musicals, they decide to put on their favorite Broadway show, “The Drowsy Chaperone,” to cheer themselves up. This voice belongs to the Person in Chair, a depressed recluse who sits alone in their small studio apartment.
“I hate theater,” a voice says from the darkened stage. CU Boulder’s College of Music BM/MT program will present “The Drowsy Chaperone” Nov.
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