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The Drowsy Chaperone

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Composer

Also credited on7 works

Monty Python’s Spamalot
South Pacific
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Young Frankenstein
Candide
Li’l Abner
Pacific Overtures

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In the literature8 passages

  • Bob Martin, Don McKellar and Lisa Lambert provided invaluable information on the development of The Drowsy Chaperone .ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • In recent years, Broadway has played host to Sarafina ! (from Johannesburg), The Drowsy Chaperone (from Toronto) and Priscilla -- Queen of the Dessert (from Sydney). We now have something called World Music. Why not World Musical Theatre? After all, nineteenth century New York – in what the Europeans derisively referred to as “the colonie…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • There is a song in The Drowsy Chaperone that contains the intentionally very Politically Incorrect lines “What is it about the Asians / That fascinates Caucasians? / What is it about the Asians / That’s so nice? / Is it the won-tons? The egg-roles? The rice?” [229] This sort of exoticism – and the potential for cultural misunderstanding –…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • [229] Lisa Lambert , Greg Morrison , “Message from a Nightingale ”, from The Drowsy Chaperone .ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • In 2006 The Drowsy Chaperone , with book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar , and music and lyrics by Greg Morrison and Lisa Lambert , opened at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway, where it broke box office records after winning five Tony Awards (including best book and best score.) The musical, in which a lonely divorcee sits in his apartment l…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • McKellar and Lambert recalled their friendship with Grudeff to Sandy Thorburn , musical director of a production of The Drowsy Chaperone at Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, Ontario. “I’d never sung in public before and I felt hopelessly nervous and out of place, until the accompanist [Grudeff] beckoned me over to her piano and pri…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt

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