
OCTOBER 14 – OCTOBER 30, 2022
Synopsis
Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.
With the houselights down, 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 and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.
Hailed by New York Magazine as “The Perfect Broadway Musical,” The Drowsy Chaperone is a masterful meta-musical, poking fun at all the tropes that characterize the musical theatre genre.
The Drowsy Chaperone
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
COUNTDOWN TO OPENING NIGHT!
MUSIC & LYRICS BY:
LISA LAMBERT
& GREG MORRISON
BOOK BY:
BOB MARTIN
& DON MCKELLAR
Direction by: Kari Ann Stamatoplos
Music Direction by: Megan Zeitler
Choreography by: Mandi Barron
October 14- 30, 2022
Friday & Saturdays 7:30pm
Saturdays & Sundays 2:30pm
Shimberg Playhouse @ the Straz
Center for the Performing Art
CAST & CREW
Starring
Man In Chair:
Mrs. Tottendale:
Underling:
Robert Martin:
George:
Feldzieg:
Kitty:
Gangster 1:
Gangster 2:
Aldolpho:
Janet Van Der Graaf:
The Drowsy Chaperone:
Trix:
Ensemble:
Ensemble:
Ensemble:
Ensemble:
Ensemble:
Doug Buffaloe
Kate Holmes
Lee Holmes
Bernard McNicol
Neil Bleiweiss
Jay Morgan
Christen Preziosi
Ryan Farnworth
Dylan Fidler
Robert Pelaia
Madison DeBrino
Jessica Berger Vitalo
Patty Smithey
Andi Laaker
Jenelle Vinachi
Topher Larkin
Erica Vitelli
Evan Lomba
Production Team
Director
Music Director
Choreographer
Artistic Director
Stage Manager
Scenic Designer
Prop Master
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Lighting Technician
Technician
Costume Designer
Photography
Band
Conductor | Piano
Bass
Drums
2nd Piano
Reeds
Trumpet
Kari Ann Stamatoplos
Megan Zeitler
Mandi Barron
Anthony Paul Gilkinson
Richard Brown
Kit Hastings
Tracy Bowers
Jayce Bertucelli
Mitchell Samuelson
Johnny Garde
Mitchell Sameulson
Deborah Lastinger
Chaz Dykes
Megan Zeitler
Alex Pasut
Nico Remy
David Estevez
Julia Ford
John Baker
SHIMBERG PLAYHOUSE @ THE STRAZ CENTER
BOX OFFICE: (813) 229-7827
October 14 | 7:30 pm
October 15 | 2:30 pm
October 15 | 7:30 pm
October 16 | 2:30 pm
October 21 | 7:30 pm
October 22 | 2:30 pm
October 22 | 7:30 pm
October 22 | 2:30 pm
October 28 | 7:30 pm
October 29 | 2:30 pm
October 29 | 7:30 pm
October 30 | 2:30 pm