MBCC Theater’s musical mayhem is a treat
Four weddings – and no funeral “The Drowsy Chaperone” is wide awake in Manhattan Beach by Bondo Wyszpolski Sometimes I think the Manhattan Beach Community Church Theater is about to bite off more than it can chew, but then I catch one of their shows and I’m often highly impressed. I guess I shouldn’t be, because this is their 68th year and “The Drowsy Chaperone” is their 90th production. Somehow, to paraphrase one of the numbers from the current production, they keep stumbling along. That said, there are no missteps in their latest endeavor. “The Drowsy Chaperone” (billed accurately as “a musical within a comedy”) begins with a character somewhat oddly referred to as Man in Chair (played here, and effectively, by Doug Vasquez). He seems to be a mousy, middle-aged bachelor, shabbily dressed, sitting among his memories in his probably rent-controlled New York City apartment. He keeps the modern world at bay by reveling in his collection of old musical LPs. No, not the musicals of the 1950s like “My Fair Lady” or “The King and I,” but those of the 1920s. And now he wants to introduce us to one of his favorites, Jule Gable and Sidney Stein’s 1928 “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Now, this is…
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