![]() ![]() He often says out loud what the audience is thinking, skips through bits of the show he doesn't like and gets caught up in the action on stage, bouncing with joy or joining in with the songs. ![]() Bob Martin, the groom for which the show was originally written, plays Man In Chair, a character any musical theatre fan will associate with. It is simple, but many of the best things in life are. In doing so, the musical comes to life on stage and, while the slightly inane love story is played out, the man – Man In Chair as he is known – talks the audience through his favourite parts. Its plot is not a difficult one to get to grips with: a man is feeling down, so puts on his favourite musical theatre record, the entirely fictitious 1928 comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. ![]() Matthew Amer was at the first night at the Novello to watch the show about a man's love for musicals, and the musical he loves the most.įirst things first, The Drowsy Chaperone is silly fun, but there is nothing wrong with that in fact, it left most of the first night audience grinning from ear to there. Who would have thought that a skit originally written as a wedding present would, with a little shaping and moulding, make its way to Broadway and then the West End? That is exactly what has happened with fun-packed new Broadway transfer The Drowsy Chaperone. ![]()
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