New York : Jonathan Crombie is set to join the Broadway production of The Drowsy Chaperone as Man in Chair on March 20th. He will perform the role through April 15th before John Glover assumes it on the 17th. Understudies Jay Douglas and Patrick Wetzel are currently alternating the role.
Crombie will make his Broadway debut on the 20th. He previously starred in the Toronto Fringe production of The Drowsy Chaperone as Gangster #2. His other theater credits include This Could Be Love, Ouch My Toe, Romeo & Juliet, Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Arcadia, Last Romantics, What the Butler Saw, Godspell , and Wimsey Madders . He also starred in the popular televsion version of Anne of Green Gables .
Drowsy currently features Danny Burstein, Georgia Engel, Sutton Foster, Troy Britton Johnson, Eddie Korbich, Garth Kravits, Jason Kravits, Beth Leavel, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Jennifer Smith, Lenny Wolpe, Linda Griffin, Angela Pupello, Joey Sorge, Peter Bartlett, and Patrick Wetzel.
The musical features music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, and direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw. The creative team includes scenic design by David Gallo, costume design by Gregg Barnes, and lighting design by Brian Monahan.
In the production, the curtain rises on a present-day musical theatre fanatic eager to tell you about his favorite Broadway musical -- “The Drowsy Chaperone.” He’s the ultimate Everyfan and “Drowsy” is his guilty pleasure.
As he begins listening to the rare cast recording, the show cleverly and magically blooms to life, telling the hilarious tale of a pampered Broadway starlet and her debonair fiance, an overzealous producer, a dizzy chorine, the Latin lover and a couple of bumbling gangsters. Ruses are played. Hi-jinks occur. And the plot spins everyone into musical comedy euphoria.
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