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ACTRA members win Tony and Drama Desk Awards July 2006 – Congratulations to ACTRA Toronto members Don McKellar and Bob Martin, who won both the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for best book of a musical for The Drowsy Chaperone. Drowsy was nominated for 13 Tonys and took home five statues. The show got 14 Drama Desk Award nominations, and won six awards including outstanding new musical. The Drowsy Chaperione was originally presented at the stag party for the wedding of Bob and ACTRA Toronto member Janet van de Graaf, written by Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison. That was 1998. In 1999, with Bob in the cast, and Janet producing, a revised version became a hit at Toronto’s Fringe Festival. From there, Drowsy went on to a production at Theatre Passe Muraille, the Winter Garden Theatre, and then it was produced in Los Angeles in 2005 before hitting Broadway in 2006.
Congratulations to Don and Bob on their awards! http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/drowsy.html http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/shows/T/thedrowsychaperone.html |
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