The Wedding Singer
Opening Night: April 27, 2006
Closing: December 31, 2006
Theater: Al Hirschfeld Theatre
The Wedding Singer is based upon the New Line Cinema film. Music is by Matthew Sklar, book by Tim Herlihy and Chad Beguelin, and lyrics by Chad Beguelin. It’s the 80’s. Robbie Hart lives in his grandmother’s basement in New Jersey and sings in a wedding band. His dreams of being a singer/songwriter are long gone, replaced now by a burning desire to find the right girl and settle down. When his fiancee leaves him standing at the altar, he becomes a wedding planner’s worst nightmare, taking out his bitterness on stage until his eye and heart turn to a new friend, Julia, but she’s engaged to a wealthy Wall Street broker.
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April 28, 2006
HOW quickly our dreary yesterdays become bright, cute and endlessly repackageable. The 1980’s, it seems, are to today what the 1950’s were to the 1970’s (and to part of the 1980’s): a supposedly more innocent, picturesquely dopey time when people wore quaint clothes, listened to infectiously inane music and danced goofy tribal dances. Ah, how we laughed.
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