11/6/2022 0 Comments Drowsy chaperone broadwayMark Ledbetter, as her diffident intended, and best man Richard Vida tear up the stage with the hot-jazz "Cold Feets" tap duet, and Dale Hensley savors the comic tango excess of "Aldolpho." Dust storms choke inland Southern CaliforniaĪndrea Chamberlain isn't the force of unbridled ego that Sutton Foster is on the CD (and was in the Tony telecast) on the should-be showstopping "Show Off." But she sells it and her other songs well enough to hold down the role of the showgirl whose impending marriage sets the plot in motion.Chevron's Bay Area headquarters sold, but the oil company has new East Bay offices.Brutal video of Warriors' Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole is released.Bay Area police break up party with up to 400 people at short-term rental.How did TMZ get the video of Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole at Warriors practice?.700,000 people in California are getting inflation relief payments Friday.San Jose Fire Department investigates video of bikini-clad woman exiting fire truck.If many of the performances don't measure up to those on the Broadway company CD, most of the numbers are engagingly sung and brightly executed by musical director Robert Billig's fine orchestra. The real joy is in the old-musicals spoof, partly in the takes on old comedy routines and Gregg Barnes' mock-lavish costumes, but mostly in Lambert and Morrison's reworkings of popular '20s song styles and director Casey Nicholaw's choreography. The framing story is a pleasant lagniappe. "Chaperone" began as a sketch for Martin's bachelor party in '99, created by songwriters Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, was expanded (with authors Martin and Don McKellar) for the Toronto Fringe Festival, and reworked until it came to Broadway in '06. Jonathan Crombie is a charmer as the self-abnegating narrator who can't resist inserting himself into the action - a part originally played by co-author Bob Martin. Once he puts on the original cast recording of the titular 1928 musical (no, thereweren't any cast recordings in those days, but there wasn't any such musical either), the long-gone actors spill out of every nook, cranny and appliance in David Gallo's inventive set to re-create the entire show. The voice belongs to Man in Chair, a shy, effete loner in a shapeless long cardigan, holed up in a dingy apartment with his record player and beloved collection of old LPs. In other words, it pretty much answers the heartfelt prayers of the disembodied voice in the blackout at the beginning that articulates the dread ("I hate theater") and hopes of many in the house: "I just want a story and a few good songs."
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