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Highlands High School’s Theatre Department presents The Drowsy Chaperone; shows this week


Students from Highlands High School’s Theatre Department will perform The Drowsy Chaperone, 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 and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Hailed by New York Magazine as “The Perfect Broadway Musical,” The Drowsy Chaperone is a masterful musical, poking fun at all the tropes that characterize the musical theatre genre.

Performances are open to the Public.

The Highlands High School Performing Arts Center is located at  2400 Memorial Parkway, Fort Thomas, KY 41075

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday, April 19, 7:30pm, Opening Night
Friday, April 20, 7:30pm
Saturday, April 21, 7:30pm
Sunday, April 22, 2pm

Tickets are $8 for students, $10 for adults.

Tickets are RESERVED SEATING only and can be purchased in advance here. Any remaining unreserved tickets can be purchased at the door one hour prior to each show.

Highlands High School


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