![]() ![]() And let it be short, oh Lord in heaven, please. Oh, dear God, please let it be a good show. Well, it's so disappointing, isn't it You know what I do when I'm sitting in a darkened theatre waiting for the show to begin I pray. But still, in the larger sense, in a broader sense, it’s better to have lived than left, right?įor full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Bob Martin and Don McKeller, The Drowsy Chaperone, Music Theater International, pp. The Drowsy Chaperone - Man in the Chair STUDY PLAY Terms in this set (.) (start) I hate theatre. One day he feels blue, and so puts on a record from. And for a couple of months you stare at the alien form in the bed beside you and you think to yourself “Who are you? Who are you?” And one day you say it out loud…then it’s a trial separation and couples counseling and all your conversations are about her eating disorder and your Zoloft addiction, and the whole “relationship” ends on a particularly ugly note with your only copy of Gypsy spinning through the air and smashing against the living room wall. The frame story is about a lonely man named.Man In Chair, who lives alone with his record collection. So, one day you say “I love you” and you basically phrase it as a question, but they accept it as fact and then suddenly there she is standing in front of you in a three thousand dollar dress with tears in her eyes, and her nephew made the huppah, so what do you do? You choose to live. 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. Is she saying “live while you can,” or “leave while you can”? And that’s exactly what you think when you’re standing at the altar, isn’t it, “Live” or “Leave” and you have to live. The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another. This magical piece of meta-theatre and playful, heartfelt parody of the 1920s musical. Such are the antics of The Drowsy Chaperone, a fictitious 1928 musical comedy. After Janet departs to find Robert, Aldolpho arrives and mistakes the Chaperone for Janet. It is left to the eager best man, George, to quite by accident break up the happy pair, when he sends groom Robert Martin out to the garden, blindfolded, and in roller skates. You can’t quite make out what she says because someone drops a cane. Man in Chair explains that this song was written into the show due to the demands of the actress playing the Drowsy Chaperone, who always insisted that a rousing anthem be included in every show in which she performed. The moment I was talking about a moment that has fascinated me more than any other and that has brought me back to this record again and again. ![]()
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