Cal Lutheran presents 'Drowsy Chaperone'
Musical comedy won 5 Tonys, 7 Drama Desk Awards
Malissa Marlow is Janet Van De Graaf and Christopher Reynolds-Baldwin is Robert Martin in "The Drowsy Chaperone."
Photo: Brian Stethem(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – April 5, 2016) The California Lutheran University Music and Theatre Arts departments will present “The Drowsy Chaperone” in the Black Box Theatre on the Thousand Oaks campus.
The Tony Award-winning “musical within a comedy” will be performed at 8 p.m. April 21, 22, 23, 24, 29 and 30. Matinee performances will begin at 2 p.m. April 23 and May 1.
“The Drowsy Chaperone” debuted on Broadway in 2006. It won five Tony Awards including Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical and seven Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Music, Outstanding Lyrics and Outstanding Book of a Musical.
The play is a loving sendup of the Jazz Age musical featuring one show-stopping song-and-dance number after another. As the houselights dim, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life as the man in the chair looks on.
The 20-member cast includes leads junior theater arts majors Leah Dalrymple of Simi Valley, Malissa Marlow of Thousand Oaks, Kevin Repich of Simi Valley and Chris Reynolds-Baldwin of Moreno Valley as well as freshman biochemistry major Andrew Cervantes of Simi Valley.
Ken Gardner, chair of Cal Lutheran’s Theatre Arts Department, directs. Music lecturer Heidi Valencia Vas provides musical direction and music professor Dan Geeting conducts the orchestra. Barbara Wegher-Thompson, a senior adjunct faculty member in the Theatre Arts Department, is the choreographer.
The theater is located at 141 Memorial Parkway.
Admission is $20. Tickets are available at CalLutheran.edu/theatrearts. For more information, call 805-493-3415.