The Drowsy Chaperone

Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, Bob Martin, and Don McKellar’s 'The Drowsy Chaperone' arrived at the Marquis Theatre in 2006, running for an astonishing 674 performances and sweeping five major Tony Awards including Best Score and Best Book. The brilliant, meta-theatrical musical comedy begins inside a dark apartment where a depressed, lonely theater fanatic—known as the "Man in Chair"—plays his favorite rare 1928 vinyl cast album, causing an opulent golden-era musical comedy extravaganza to burst to life directly through his kitchen cabinets. Directed and choreographed with signature physical wit by Casey Nicholaw, the blockbuster original production starred Martin, Sutton Foster, and Beth Leavel.