ICCT Announces Auditions for Chaperone

Iowa City - The Iowa City Community Theatre is holding auditions for the musical farce The Drowsy Chaperone. A play within a play, the show starts with the 'Man in Chair,' a recluse who spends his life with recordings of Golden Age Broadway musicals. When he puts on a record of his favorite — The Drowsy Chaperone — the action bursts onto stage and the audience gets to watch both the wildly improbable romantic comedy musical and the Man in Chair as he puts in his two cents along the way. Featuring music hall performers, gangsters, aging socialites, young lovers, a bumbling Lothario, a deus ex machina aviatrix and the titular tipsy (‘drowsy’) chaperone, The Drowsy Chaperone is a riotous homage to the classics of the Broadway stage, where no matter how hopelessly complicated things get in Act I, you can count on wedding bells by the end of Act II.

Auditions will be held January 23rd--25th at the following times and locations:

January 23 2-5pm Meeting Room A IC Public Library
January 24 7-9pm Robert A Lee Rec Center
January 25 7-10pm Johnson County Fairgrounds (Callbacks, plus extended auditions)

If you have any questions, contact director Ben Bentler by email at pianoartist@mac.com or by phone at (319) 512-9834.