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Theatre By the Sea’s peppy Drowsy Chaperone

Musical cheers
For a party in 1997, some friends tossed together a larky little spoof on musicals, and the eventual result was "A Musical Within a Comedy," as The Drowsy Chaperone likes to call itself.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | August 31, 2011

Musical power

MSMT's lively Drowsy Chaperone
The Man in the Chair (Charles Abbott) is a man of a certain age who wears both a sweater vest and a cardigan, feels pangs of a "non-specific sadness," and harbors an abiding nostalgia for the musical theater of yesteryear.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 19, 2009

Blindness

An old-fashioned disaster-movie yarn
The Fernando Meirelles–directed film is, of necessity, less literary and philosophical.
By GERALD PEARY | October 01, 2008

Make believe

The songs are the draw in Drowsy Chaperone
Of the five Tony Awards that The Drowsy Chaperone swept up in 2006, Lisa Lambert’s co-win with Greg Morrison for Best Original Score was the real prize.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | May 07, 2008

Musical chairs

Dessa Rose, Whizzin’, The Drowsy Chaperone
Perhaps only the team that triumphed with Ragtime would attempt a musical based on Sherley Anne Williams’s 1986 novel Dessa Rose .
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 29, 2008

Monkey Warfare

Love and politics
On weekends, they become a two-person team of petty-bourgeois capitalists, sniffing out yard sales, looking for pop-culture items that they can spiff up and sell on the Web.
By GERALD PEARY | April 02, 2008

Backstage masterpiece

Is Slings + Arrows better than The Sopranos?
As much as I adored The Sopranos , I have to wonder about the rush to anoint it the best television series ever.
By ED SIEGEL | July 03, 2007

Zombie sheep?

Plus Donkey Kong, the Super Amigos, and ‘the greatest film of all time’ at the IFFB
After a top-notch first two days, the Fifth Independent Film Festival of Boston weathers some ups and downs through the remainder of its schedule.
By PHOENIX FILM STAFF | April 29, 2007

Pedro, Borat, and a castrato

The 31st Toronto International Film Festival
As usual, dedicated film critics were too occupied seeing four or five movies a day to note the swarm of A-list celebrities at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival.
By GERALD PEARY | September 20, 2006

'Drowsy Chaperone', Poking Musicals in the Funny Bone, Begins L.A. Run

The world of musical theatre has a new character to fall in love with.
The world of musical theatre has a new character to fall in love with.
By | December 18, 2005