I was walking through a bustling Times Square, when I looked up at the Marquis Theatre's marquee and saw a sign for the The Drowsy Chaperone where The Woman in White used to be. I've been following this show since one of its earliest incarnations at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto (it had originally played at The Toronto Fringe Festival), so to see it up on Broadway was very cool indeed.

And FINALLY there was a big article in The Globe & Mail ("From Queen Street to the Great White Way" by Simon Houpt, Saturday March 4, 2006) talking about the journey of this Canadian show and the fact it has hit the big time ($10 million in big time, as a matter of fact!)

It's always really exciting to see the Canadian media support Canadian shows once they make it all the way to Broadway...

Then I was browsing through the March 5 Sunday Arts & Leisure section in The New York Times and came across a full-page color ad for The Drowsy Chaperone that read "Sometimes you can tell just by the title that a show is going to be amazing. This is not one of those times."

Now a full-page ad is totally awesome! But I hope it is part of a teaser campaign that will give more information on what a great show it is. A campaign that will communicate just how funny and charming "Man in the Chair" (Bob Martin) really is. A campaign that will tell us that the Tony award winning Sutton Foster is starring and yes, she will be tapping again (I think she does, although I haven't seen it yet...).

A campaign that lets women over 40 (like myself) know that Georgia Engel is also in it. Yes the same Georgia Engel we watched as Georgette on the the Mary Tyler Moore Show!

I love the full page, just don't leave the tourists guessing for too long!

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