Collector's Edition Drowsy Chaperone Album


Item Number: 276

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Description

Deluze Collector's Edition 11-track vinyl album of the Broadway cast recording of The Drowsy Chaperone remastered from the original 1928 recording.  Released on February 14, 2007, this album was the first Broadway cast album to appear in vinyl LP form in nearly 20 years.  Only 500 of these albums exist.  Both a CD and Vinyl are included.  This item is autographed by Surflight Alum and co-producer of the Broadway production Roy Miller.


In the Tony Award-winning show, which recently appearing on the Surflight stage, a theatre maven named Man in Chair  holds up the record sleeve of his favorite 33-rpm LP cast album — 1928's The Drowsy Chaperone — and puts a needle on the platter and shares the experience with the audience. The show comes to life around him in his dreary studio apartment.


The "record recreates Man in Chair's experience listening to his cherished cast album and features added scene dialogue, vintage cover artwork, Broadway production photographs, lyrics, liner notes and an included bonus CD of the vinyl record's content," according to Ghostlight Records.


The performers on the freshly minted LP are listed not as the 2006 troupers but as Golden Age (fictional) players Beatrice Stockwell, Roman Bartelli, Jane Roberts, Ukelele Lil and others. (They are respectively played on Broadway by Tony winner Beth Leavel, Danny Burstein, Sutton Foster and Georgia Engel.)


Since the center of the show is an 80-year-old recording, will the LP release have a tinny, scratchy sound?


Ghostlight Records president Deutsch told Playbill.com, "We remastered and remixed for vinyl but didn't put any special vintage sounding effects on it. We really wanted it to be as pristine a collector's item as possible."


The track listing for the limited edition vinyl disc of The Drowsy Chaperone includes:


SIDE ONE
1. Overture – Orchestra
2. "Fancy Dress" - Company
3. "Cold Feets" - Percy Hyman, Cyril Devlin
4. "Show Off" - Jane Roberts, Company
5. "As We Stumble Along" - Beatrice Stockwell


SIDE TWO
1. "I Am Aldolpho" - Roman Bartelli, Beatrice Stockwell
2. "Accident Waiting To Happen" - Percy Hyman, Jane Roberts
3. "Toledo Surprise" - The Tall Brothers, Jack Adler, Sadie Adler, Company
4. "Bride's Lament" – Jane Roberts
5. "Love Is Always Lovely In the End" – Ukelele Lil, Noel Fitzpatrick
6. "I Do, I Do In the Sky" – Gwendoline Hall, Company

Special Instructions

Winning Bidder assumes responsibility for shipping cost if unable to pick-up this item at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven.  Pick-up date/time must be prearranged.

Donated by

Roy Miller, Surflight Alum