Tickets Go On Sale Friday, August 1st at 10AM For  

The Five-Time Tony Award^® -Winning Musical Transports  

Audiences To An Exciting New Universe ~  

SEPTEMBER 23 – 28, 2008 at SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATRE 

The Drowsy Chaperone 

The Drowsy Chaperone, a totally original new musical within a comedy, is swooping into town with tons of laughs and the most 2006 Tony Awards^® of any musical on Broadway! San Diegan Casey Nicholaw (Tony® -nominated for Drowsy and Spamalot) directed and choreographed, with costumes by San Diego’s Tony Award® -winner Gregg Barnes, and a stellar creative team led by Second City’s Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison.  The Drowsy Chaperone also won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical!   

A rare combination of unprecedented originality and blinding talent, The Drowsy Chaperone boldly addresses a great unspoken desire in all of our hearts: to be entertained.  If you’ve ever sat in a darkened theatre and thought, “Dear Lord in heaven, please let it be good,” this is the show for you.  The Drowsy Chaperone tells the story of a modern day musical theater addict known simply as “Man in Chair.”  To chase his blues away he drops the needle on his favorite LP – the 1928 musical comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone.  From the crackle of his hi-fi, the musical magically bursts to life on-stage telling the tale of a pampered Broadway starlet who wants to give up show business to get married, her producer who sets out to sabotage the nuptials, her chaperone, the debonair groom, the dizzy chorine, the Latin lover and a pair of gangsters who double as pastry chefs.  Man in Chair’s love of The Drowsy Chaperone speaks to anyone who has ever been transported by the theater. 

The Drowsy Chaperonereceived more Tony Awards^® than any other musical of the 2006 season, including Best Book (Bob Martin and Don McKellar); Original Score (Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison), Costume Design (Gregg Barnes) and Scenic Design (David Gallo). The creative team for The Drowsy Chaperone also includes lighting design by Ken Billington (Chicago) and Brian Monahan, sound design by Acme Sound Partners, orchestrations by Larry Blank, dance and incidental music arrangements by Glen Kelly, and music director/vocal arrangements by Phil Reno.  The Drowsy Chaperone is produced by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Bob Boyett, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag and Jill Furman. 

Individual tickets will go on sale Friday, August 1st at 10AM at theCivic Theatre Ticket Office (3^rd & B Street, downtown San Diego).  To order by phone, call the Ticket Office at (619) 570-1100 or Ticketmaster at (619) 220-TIXS; or purchase tickets via the Internet at www.broadwaysd.com 

Visit www.drowsychaperone.com for more information. 

WHEN:                                  September 23 - 28, 2008 

WHERE:                                San Diego Civic Theatre, 3^rd and B Street, downtown San Diego  

PERFORMANCE              Tuesday and Wednesday at 7PM 

TIMES:                                               Thursday at 7:30PM 

                                                Friday at 8PM 

Saturday at 2PM & 8PM 

                                                Sunday at 1PM & 6PM 

TICKETS:                               $18--$79    Tickets Go On Sale Friday, August 1 at 10AM 

TICKET PURCHASE:                        Civic TheatreTicket Office, (619) 570-1100 

                                                Ticketmaster    (619) 220-TIXS 

                                                Group Discounts (619) 564-3001 

THEATRE ADDRESS:                      3^rd and B Street, 1100 Third Ave. 

PARKING:                             Paid parking available in the San Diego Concourse Parking structure. 

WEBSITE:                              www.broadwaysd.com 

PHOTOS :                        http://www.broadwaysd.com/press/index.php 

“Ditzy dames, vapid leading man, showbiz-smitten gangsters, vain Latin lover, groaner puns, fabulous costumes, long-stemmed dancers and a ridiculous plot that's just an excuse for every production number and vaudeville routine that can be squeezed in - "The Drowsy Chaperone" has it all … a lampoon-homage framed in a metatheatrical comedy … very funny … surprisingly tuneful … peppered with sly inside-theater notes on Broadway practices of yore … answers the heartfelt prayers of the disembodied voice in the blackout at the beginning that articulates the dread … and hopes of many in the house: "I just want a story and a few good songs.  Jonathan Crombie is a charmer as the self-abnegating narrator who can't resist inserting himself into the action …the real joy is in the old-musicals spoof … Barnes' mock-lavish costumes … mostly in Lambert and Morrison's reworkings of popular '20s song styles and director Casey Nicholaw's choreography … engagingly sung and brightly executed … Ledbetter and Vida tear up the stage with the hot-jazz "Cold Feets" tap duet … a beguiling, lovingly savvy look back in laughter at a Broadway gone by.   Robert Hurwitt/San Francisco Chronicle 

" The Drowsy Chaperone" wins us over … winking homage to the giddy Broadway musicals of yore … {Man in Chair’s} ingenious self-referential commentary, which flows from his obsessive love affair with the conventions of the American musical theater, seems far more irresistible than any cornball romantic comedy plot …''Drowsy'' pokes fun at old-fashioned show tunes and the audiences who love/hate them. Crombie shades the Man with just the right combination of archness and wide-eyed wonder … the star of his own follies … his endearing postmodern commentary that gives this parody its punch. He's an armchair diva, dahlings, and his delish asides give this champagne cocktail of a musical its pop. It's the Man in Chair who makes this ''Drowsy'' such a dream.”                                        Karen D'Souza/ Mercury News