The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) will present The Drowsy Chaperone in Concert at 54 Below on Monday, January 8th, 2018. Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song after another. Hailed by New York Magazine as “The Perfect Broadway Musical,” The Drowsy Chaperone has music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison with book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. 
The concert will be directed by Josh Rhodes (Company) with music direction by Lawrence Goldberg (On the Twentieth Century). Joining previously announced performers are Original Broadway Cast members Jay Douglas (Elf) and Garth Kravits (Upcoming: Getting the Band Back Together).
They will join Original Broadway Cast members Beth Leavel (Bandstand), Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone), Stacia Fernandez (Bandstand, Paper Mill Playhouse), Linda Griffin (Something Rotten!), Eddie Korbich (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), Jason Kravits (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Kecia Lewis (Upcoming: Children of a Lesser God), Angela Pupello (ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley), Kilty Reidy (Billy Elliot, 2nd National Tour), Jennifer Smith (Anastasia), Joey Sorge (A Bronx Tale) and Patrick Wetzel (Resident Director, Aladdin).
The Drowsy Chaperone in Concert plays Feinstein’s/54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on January 8th at 7:00PM and 9:30PM. The cover charge starts at $50, premium seating starts at $95 and a $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com or call (646) 476-3551.
A portion of the proceeds will support NAMT, a not-for-profit organization, whose programs include the 30th Annual Festival of New Musicals, which will take place on October 25-26, 2018 at New World Stages.
NAMT’s Festival of New Musicals has showcased 252 shows by 478 writers over the last 29 years. Musicals NAMT has helped develop include Broadway’s Come From Away, The Drowsy Chaperone, It Shoulda Been You, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and The Story of My Life. Off-Broadway successes include The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Children of Eden, I Love You Because, The Memory Show, Nobody Loves You, Ordinary Days, OTHELLO: The Remix, See Rock City and Other Destinations, Songs for a New World, Striking 12, and Vanities.
This concert is produced for NAMT by Ciera Iveson with Karin Nilo.