The Wedding Singer

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The Wedding Singer is a Broadway musical comedy, based on the 1998 Adam Sandler film, that follows a jilted 1980s wedding singer who finds unexpected love.

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The Wedding Singer (1998 film) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Broadway musical
stage musical
awardNomination Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
surface form: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (Stephen Lynch)

Tony Award for Best Choreography
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Original Score
basedOn The Wedding Singer self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Wedding Singer (1998 film)
basedOnWorkCreator Tim Herlihy
bookBy Chad Beguelin
Tim Herlihy
broadwayClosingDate 2006-12-31
broadwayOpeningDate 2006-04-27
broadwayTheatre Al Hirschfeld Theatre
composer Matthew Sklar NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre musical comedy
hasTour U.S. national tour of The Wedding Singer
hasWestEndProduction The Wedding Singer West End production
lyricist Chad Beguelin
lyricsBy Chad Beguelin
musicBy Matthew Sklar NERFINISHED
notableSong Come Out of the Dumpster
Grow Old With You
If I Told You
It’s Your Wedding Day
Saturday Night in the City
Someday
numberOfBroadwayPerformances 284
originalBroadwayChoreographer Rob Ashford
originalBroadwayDirector John Rando NERFINISHED
originalBroadwayGeorgeActor Kevin Cahoon NERFINISHED
originalBroadwayGlenGugliaActor Richard H. Blake
originalBroadwayHollyActor Amy Spanger
originalBroadwayJuliaSullivanActor Laura Benanti
originalBroadwayProducer Douglas Meyer NERFINISHED
Margo Lion
New Line Cinema NERFINISHED
The Araca Group
originalBroadwayRobbieHartActor Stephen Lynch
originalBroadwaySammyActor Matthew Saldivar NERFINISHED
originalFilmStar Adam Sandler NERFINISHED
Drew Barrymore
originalLanguage English
premiereCity New York City NERFINISHED
premiereDate 2006-02-16
premiereLocation Al Hirschfeld Theatre
settingPlace New Jersey NERFINISHED
settingTime 1980s
subject 1980s
romantic relationships
wedding singers

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The Wedding Singer basedOn The Wedding Singer self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Wedding Singer (1998 film)
Martin Beck Theatre notableProduction The Wedding Singer
Adam Sandler notableWork The Wedding Singer