‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ at Music Circus
Tuesday, July 9 to Sunday, July 14, various times, Broadway Sacramento at Music Circus, $45-$83

PHOTO COURTESY OF GREG HERNANDEZ, CC BY 2.0
Do you like your 1920s musicals like to be like your favorite badly forged Picasso paintings—not really from the ’20s and parodying the subject? Then this meta-musical featuring a play within a play is calling your name. Originally performed in 1998, it’s making its Music Circus premiere. Concerning a hermit-esque “Man in Chair” character who’s also a Broadway enthusiast—played by Bruce Vilanch in this production—the comedy will take many turns and make fun of roaring musical comedies of the 1920s. 1419 H Street, broadwaysacramento.com.