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Also attending the nuptials is Janet's producer, Feldzieg (the incomparable Lenny Wolpe), who is desperate to stop the wedding so as not to lose his irreplaceable star.

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But, this being the Prohibition era, the chaperone brings her own portable bar with her and indulges at every whim - thus leading to the 'drowsy' description. Janet is accompanied by her chaperone (an earthy Beth Leavel), whose job it is to keep the bride and groom from seeing each other on the wedding day. (Having recently broken her wrist, she wears a flesh colored cast.) Her doubts about leaving the spotlight are exposed in the dazzling 'Show Off,' in which Foster manages to perfectly execute a series of one-handed cartwheels. Naturally, Janet fell in love with Robert the instant they met and is now ready to play happy housewife - or so she thinks. The Drowsy Chaperone concerns Janet (the radiant and graceful Sutton Foster), a beautiful actress who's about to throw away her career in order to marry Robert (Troy Britton Johnson, appropriately deep of voice and manly in disposition, even when he tap dances his martial jitters away in 'Cold Feets').

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It's all about being whisked away to another time and place that is more joyous and full of color than everyday life in the present. The show within the show is light as air the characters and relationships have the density of cotton candy, the plot twists are ridiculously simple and easily spotted from the back row of the highest balcony, and there is (of course) a happy ending. They introduce themselves and set up the story of the show in the effervescent opening number, 'Fancy Dress.' As he pulls out the record (yes, record!) and sets it on the turntable, he sighs that its scratchy sound is like a time machine starting up - and, just like that, the refrigerator doors become a magic portal through which the madcap characters of the old musical enter one by one.

And so is the Man in Chair (a delightful, entertaining Martin), who just wants 'a story and a few songs to take me away' from life in his lonely, gray, one-room apartment.Д®asily chatting with the audience as if those thousand or more people gathered in the Ahmanson Theatre were a single, close friend, the Man decides to share with us one of his favorite bubbly-as-champagne musical comedies of the 1920's: The Drowsy Chaperone. So is Casey Nicholaw, who directs and choreographs this show with an abundance of sparkling energy. The creators of The Drowsy Chaperone, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (music and lyrics) and Bob Martin and Don McKellar (book), are right there with you. Musical theater fans, rejoice! You are not alone in your worshipful adoration of all things singing and dancing on stage.