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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.

Recordings 1 album held

Licensing 1 entry

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

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

4 passages naming The Wedding Singer, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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

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