Review: Theo’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ has a fabulous narrator to invite us along for the ride

Review: ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ lovingly parodies the musical genre

“The Drowsy Chaperone” is a musical of preposterous delights. The five-time Tony-winning show’s entire raison d’etre? Providing an escape from — per the script — the endless “dreary horrors” of reality. That escape is a rollicking good time at Theo Ubique’s raucous, intimate staging of a musical that’s both a spoof of the genre and a love letter to it.The score (music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison) is pleasant but largely forgetta…

The Drowsy Chaperone delights at Theo

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Review: Theo’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ has a fabulous narrator to invite us along for the ride

Rule No. 1 for any production of "The Drowsy Chaperone" is the presence of a great Man in Chair, the empathetic, sad-sack superfan at the center of this very funny musical tribute to Broadway.