The Drowsy Chaperone Study Guide - Theatre Under The Stars

The Drowsy Chaperone is a unique combination of the past and the
present: a brand new Broadway musical that celebrates musical
theatre!
The Drowsy Chaperone begins when a die-hard musical-theatre fan
plays his favorite cast album, and the musical magically bursts to life!
We are instantly immersed in the hilarious tale of a glamorous bride
and her uproarious wedding day, complete with thrills and surprises
that take both the cast (literally) and the audience (metaphorically)
soaring into the heavens.
Students will love The Drowsy Chaperone’s cutting sense of humor
and its headlong theatrical momentum; educators will appreciate
the opportunity to use the show as a launch point for discussions and
activities based on the use of comedy in literature and theatre, the
history of the 1920s and the influence of the American Musical.
This study guide for The Drowsy Chaperone explores this hilarious show
in an interdisciplinary curriculum that takes in English/Language Arts,
History/Social Studies, Music and Theatre. And of course, mirroring
the show’s madcap sense of humor, expect some puzzles and games,
too!
Completely original material is such a rarity on Broadway nowadays.
Students, especially those who have never been to the theatre before,
will come away from The Drowsy Chaperone with a tremendous
sense of possibility: the potential of what theatre, or any art form, can
achieve.
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Bob Martin as “Man in Chair”