The Drowsy Chaperone musical a success
Tintern’s Performing Arts community has never been busier! In early March, some of our 2024 graduates performed in Top Class Theatre Studies and Drama, showcasing their brilliant work that earned them the highest marks which placed them as some of Victoria’s best performers in their subject. Ashley Honan, Emily Stokes and CJ were invited to audition for Top Class 2025 and presented fantastic monologues, which made us all immensely proud.
In more recent news, our 2025 school musical The Drowsy Chaperone came to life in the Karalyka Theatre in Ringwood, with performances taking place from Wednesday 26 – Friday 29 March. Preparation for this dazzling show began in Term 3 2024 and the team behind the show couldn’t be more excited about presenting it! In the show, the narrator, Man in Chair, decides to play a record of the original cast recording of a (fictional) Broadway musical entitled The Drowsy Chaperone. No sooner has the needle touched the record than we are transported to a 1928 Broadway theatre and into The Drowsy Chaperone, a play-within-a-play, crammed full of every cliche and gimmick from the golden age of musicals.
The plot of the show-within-a-show centres on Janet Van De Graaff, a showgirl who plans to give up her career to marry an oil tycoon, Robert Martin. However, Janet is the star of ‘Feldzieg’s Follies’, and a lot of money is riding on her name to sell the show; and Feldzieg, her producer, is being threatened to stop the wedding by two gangsters employed by his chief investor. To save himself, Feldzieg enlists Aldolpho, a bumbling Latin Lothario, to seduce Janet and spoil her relationship with Robert. Meanwhile, Janet is having doubts about her groom. Disguising herself as a French woman, she tempts Robert into kissing her, and a massive misunderstanding emerges. The ensuing plot incorporates mistaken identities, dream sequences, spit takes, an unflappable English butler, an absent-minded dowager, a ditzy chorine, a harried best man, and Janet’s ‘Drowsy’ Chaperone.
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