“The Drowsy Chaperone,” a Tony Award-winning parody of American musical comedy of the 1920s, is coming to Kingswood Oxford’s Roberts Theater on Mar. 1 at 8pm and Mar. 2 at 2pm. Tickets are available at the door.
Directed by KO’s Josh Feder and Rebecca Urrutia, this “show within a show” is about a modern musical theater addict who tries to chase his blues away by repeatedly playing the record from the 1928 Broadway musical, “The Drowsy Chaperone.”
It opened on Broadway in May 2006 and soon after won the Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score.
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The KO production features 25 students. Leading players include Casey Barter ’15, Sophie Kruger ’14, Connor O'Loughlin ’17, Nate Washburn ’15, Thomas Wilson ’15, and Sam Wiseman ’14 of West Hartford; Cat Flaherty ’14 and Matt Guerrera ’15 of Newington; Grace Gentile ’15 of East Hartford, Sharrieff Grice ’15 of Naugatuck, John Chatigny ’14 of Simsbury, Maddie Pazzani ’14 of Farmington, and Sydney Legagneur ’15 of Windsor.
Other featured performers include Lydia Bailey ’15 of Simsbury, Lexi Banasiewicz ’16 of Windsor, Emma Cowper ’16 of Killingworth, Anya Delventhal ’15 of Wallingford, Hayley Eicher ’16, Carolyn McCusker '17 and Poppy Sheehan '17 of West Hartford, Shelby Fairchild ’17 of Canton, Areesha Irfan ’15 of Farmington, Marisa Johnson ’15 of Hartford, Molly Sullivan ’15 of Manchester, and Ava Tankala ’15 of South Windsor
