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Summer Stock revitalizes ‘The Wedding Singer’ musical</SPAN></B><B
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Movies
turned into stage musicals, such as the recent Broadway production of “Rocky,”
loose something in translation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Cinematic grandeur and technologically-enriched storytelling are traded
in for the spontaneity of live theater and the allure of music and
lyrics.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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most from </SPAN><SPAN
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Beguelin, Tim Herlihy and Matthew Sklar’s<SPAN style="BACKGROUND: white"> “The
Wedding Singer” musical – which ran briefly on Broadway in 2006 and replicates
the 1998 flick starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore – is Adam Sandler and
Drew Barrymore.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It's
1985 and New Jersey, and wedding singer Robbie Hart is living in his grandma's
basement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Heartbroken after being
left at the altar by his fiancé, his only salvation is Julie, a waitress who is
engaged to the wrong man.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her only
salvation is Robbie.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In
the film, Sandler’s sophomoric persona turned mediocre writing into truly funny
moments. Barrymore’s charm turned saccharine romantic comedy into earnest
exchanges.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And their on-screen
chemistry created endearing characters, which more than compensated for the
film’s other creative shortcomings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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these two performers, the stage version relies on a never-ending </SPAN><SPAN
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of jokes about the 1980s for its humor, quirkiness in the place of truly
interesting characters, and more musical numbers than its paper-thin storyline
can support.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">And yet
Mercury Summer Stock’s very game director and choreographer, Pierre Brault, and
his gifted designers and performers turn “The Wedding Singer” into something
thoroughly enjoyable.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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