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We chose The Drowsy Chaperone provides the jazzy genre, vaudville humor, and 1920's dancing that the students enjoyed last year (and begged for more), but tells a completely different story and offers new challenges. To have a play within a play and a narrator who is part of the audience are fresh and difficult feats. We found that this show allows for an intimate relationship between the audience and stage. 

Much of the set, props, lobby, and playbill were designed and detailed by our talented crew members during the months before we moved into the Mineral Point Opera House. We were very impressed by their dedication and creativity as they prepared for the show's logistical needs.

The songs in this show are more incorporated into the plot itself, which required cast members to emote more while singing and dancing. 

Each character is an archetype and there is humor riddled throughout the show, which has pushed our cast members' delivery, timing, and

physical acting in a new, dramatic direction.  

We view the show's message to be about the power of musical theatre as a whole.

The genre of musical theatre can lift an audience member's spirits,

get them through difficult times within their own lives, and

allow a tangible connection with the characters'

struggles, emotions, and experiences to be possible. 

There are many personalities, relationships, and backstories

within the musical theatre canon. 

We wish for our audiences each year to feel a connection with them,

regardless of storyline, era, style, or characters.

This year's production of The Drowsy Chaperone highlights

this intention more than ever.  

"As we stumble along on life's funny journey,

as we stumble along into the blue,

we look here and we look there seeking answers anywhere,

never sure of where to turn or what to do.

Still we bumble our way through life's crazy labrynth

barely knowing left from right nor right from wrong.

And the best that we can do is hope a blue bird

will sing his song as we stumble along."