Beginning next week, and for the next four to five weeks after that, anyone who goes to see The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway will get to see Jonathan Crombie as the “Man in Chair”.
Jon isn’t new to Drowsy. Years ago, during the Toronto Fringe Festival, he played one of the gangsters.
Before heading out to NYC, he had been working on a documentary about Toronto’s public library system, particularly about the year-long waiting list to see the only VHS copy of the movie Ishtar, a 1987 satire made on an egregious budget about desert epic films which Jon considers a guilty pleasure. The VHS is lost; the film is not on DVD. Work on this will continue after Jon departs from Drowsy.
Folks in the Ishtar community are tremendously excited about Jonathan Crombie’s documentary.
Ishtar is a great movie, and more and more people are catching on to
that fact… with the documentary film on the way, a tribute album by the guy who maintains the Ishtar The Movie website, and perhaps a DVD release in the US (lucky Europeans have had one for years) … this is going to be a great year for Ishtar!
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/ILoveIshtar/
http://www.waitingforishtar.com/
http://www.ishtarthemovie.com/
Shake off that square world, get with the countdown, and blast off to Ishtar!
I am going to try to go in the next couple weeks… anyone going to see it? I can get people to go to NYC but not the show, lol!