Regional: Little Women (Palo Alto TheatreWorks), ValueVille (NYMF), In The Bones (APAC, World Premiere, and New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play) Workshops: iLLA! A Hip Hop Musical (O’Neil Center), The Tale of Despereaux (Universal Pictures/The Old Globe). Emily was in the cast of Godspell at Berkshire Theatre Group, the only equity sanctioned musical in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was also seen on Broadway and on tour as Elphaba in Wicked from 2015-2017. To keep up with Ben, follow and visit EMILY KOCH (The Drowsy Chaperone) just finished a year and half long run with the Broadway Company and the First National Tour of Waitress. Ben continues to lend his signature enthusiasm and razor wit to a variety of projects, concerts, and benefits from Broadway and beyond. He travels the world teaching high energy theatre and dance masterclasses and emceeing Onstage NY talent competitions. Ben is also a sought after writer, director, performer, and choreographer. Ben served as on camera host for the Broadway Trivia game show series on the Reward The Fan app. ![]() He is the creator and host of the long-running variety show Broadway Sessions (2018 MAC Award), Broadway Buskers concert series w/ Times Square Alliance, web series Dance Captain Dance Attack on, Broadway Sessions Beach Party on Fire Island, and of course, The Broadway Cast! Ben is the MainStage host of Broadway Con, was the live audience host for tapings of A Very Wicked Halloween on NBC, The SpongeBob Musical on Nickelodeon and is a frequent face on PBS WNET having hosted Hamilton’s America, Broadway on THIRTEEN Marathon, Downton Abbey New Years Marathon, and much more. Since hanging up his dance belt, Ben has become one of Broadway’s most beloved personalities. ![]() He has appeared on Broadway in Aida and in tours of Sweet Charity opposite Molly Ringwald, State Fair, Fame, The Who’s Tommy, and Footloose. Ben is a 3x Broadway veteran having appeared in the original casts of Wicked (listen to track #2, you may hear a familiar voice) and Footloose. Bringing the Broadway community right to you like a friendly neighbor dropping off brownies. 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!īEN CAMERON (Man in Chair) is your Broadway Buddy. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. 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. 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! Masks must be worn at all times, except while actively eating or drinking. Please note our safety measures to protect our artists, staff, and audience - masks will be required for all patrons, regardless of vaccination status. Not local - watch the livestream Friday, 3/18! Click here for tickets! The Franklin Performing Arts Company presents The Drowsy Chaperone starring Broadway's Ben Cameron and Emily Koch! Featuring choreography by Broadway's Clay Rice-Thomson! The score boasts such tunes as the scenery-chomping “Show Off”, the sizzling and silly “I Am Aldolpho”, the catchy “Toledo Surprise”, and “As We Stumble Along”, a rousing optimistic hilarious anthem.Performed by : Franklin Performing Arts Company This magical piece of meta-theatre and playful, heartfelt parody of the 1920s musical comedy features a chirpy jazz age score by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a lively, clever book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, both of which were Tony winners in 2006. Such are the antics of The Drowsy Chaperone, a fictitious 1928 musical comedy. It is left to the eager best man, George, to quite by accident break up the happy pair, when he sends groom Robert Martin out to the garden, blindfolded, and in roller skates. Hiring Aldolpho, a passionate man who's more vain than virile, to seduce the bride, is unsuccessful, as Janet’s chaperone, a boozy diva, who gets herself mistaken for the bride and seduced in Janet’s place. Feldzieg, whose chief investor has sent two gangsters disguised as pastry chefs to make sure he stops the wedding. Tottenham hosts the wedding of the year, she gets a lot more than a write-up in the society pages: Janet Van de Graaff, glittering starlet of Feldzieg’s Follies, is leaving the stage for love, a turn of events which horrifies the angry and anxious Mr.
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