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The Wedding Singer: The Musical Comedy

The Wedding Singer

Shows · The Wedding Singer

In 1985 New Jersey, wedding singer Robbie Hart is left at the altar by his fiancee Linda and spirals into a bitter depression, sabotaging every wedding he performs at. When he meets Julia Sullivan, a sweet waitress engaged to a slimy Wall Street guy named Glen, Robbie helps her plan her wedding while secretly falling in love with her. Racing against time and a trip to Las Vegas, Robbie must find the courage to declar…

Opened
2006
Performances
285
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Matthew SklarLyrics: Chad BeguelinBook: Chad Beguelin, Tim Herlihy

Productions1 on Broadway

2006 Al Hirschfeld Theatre Original. February 16, 2006 · John Rando 285 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International The Wedding Singer matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature4 passages

Ashford, Rob Curtains Promises, Promises Thoroughly Modern Millie Wedding Singer, The book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

It's Not Easy Being Green (Shows in which significant characters were, at some point, green): Wicked, Seascape, Avenue Q, Tarzan and The Pillowman. Also: The Wedding Singer had a song titled “All About the Green.” The Colors of My Life: The Color Purple, Woman in White. Also: Ring of Fire contained a song “The Man in B… book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-1-2005-may-31-2006-viagas-robert-second-annu#p13

Memorable Gifts: Our opening night jacket. We always wear it and look like some sort of olympic team when we're together. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-third-annual-edition-viagas-robert-3rd-annual-ed-#p438

Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... The Wedding Singer, Tarzan, Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, High Fidelity, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Cry Baby, Billy Elliot: The Musical, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Shrek, 9 to 5, Women on the… book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p287

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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