Underling tries to point this out to her, to no avail. Tottendale, is blissfully oblivious to the fact that every couple she mentions in the song (Romeo and Juliet, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Samson and Delilah) had an unhappy ending. Analogy Backfire: the song "Love Is Always Lovely in the End", in which the singer, Mrs.Some productions play him as merely metrosexual, or as a woman. He lampshades it a few times, such as discussing his ex-wife and remarking on how it must surprise the audience that he has a wife. The booklet in the CD case for the recording mentions that the show is based off of a short story called Honeymoonin' To Do. All Musicals Are Adaptations: In-universe.Affectionate Parody: The in-universe show is a parody of the cliches of the Jazz Age, and musicals in general.Accidental Misnaming: The Chaperone initially calls Aldolpho "Adollface".Accidental Innuendo: invoked The Man in Chair asks if anyone had noticed the sexual implications of the song "Love is Always Lovely in the End.".Then a plane flies in, and they all get married and go to Rio!Īs a result of its premise, The Drowsy Chaperone has more Lampshade Hanging than a hardware store, usually (but not always) provided by the Man In Chair. Along the way, various other characters end up with marriages that they may or may not want, forcing best man George to arrange four marriages when he had originally only planned on one. Of course, Hilarity Ensues as she confronts him about this kissing. Janet has doubts about her feelings towards her fiancee, and when she comes across Robert conveniently blindfolded, she pretends to be a French woman and seduces him into kissing her. The story of The Drowsy Chaperone is about the wedding of Janet van der Graaff and Robert Martin.
The majority of the musical is the record itself, with comments interjected now and then from the Man to. One day he feels blue, and so puts on a record from the 1920s - The Drowsy Chaperone. The frame story is about a lonely man named." Man In Chair", who lives alone with his record collection.
The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical which opened at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1998 and then on Broadway in 2006, described by the Tag Line as " a musical within a comedy".
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