How was the final Wedding Singer

I'm curious to hear a review.

What a waste of a post.

^Aside from Adam Sandler being in the movie, what did that have to do with the final performance?

The show was very high energy, crowd was what was to be expected--some teenagers dressed in costume, loud audience response with applause for everyone as they came onstage. I did find it a bit obnoxious that people were yelling out some of the lines and singing along, though.

Stephen Lynch gave a nice speech at the end, all the understudies and Constantine came onstage with the rest of the cast for the curtain call. Stage door surprisingly was not as insane as I expected. Crowded, yes, but not nearly as raucous as I've seen at other show closings.

Did Constantine not perform?

It wasn't really very sad for me, personally. I mean, there were times I was feeling a little sad (like when Adinah Alexander started crying with Laura during the scene where Julia is trying on her wedding dress before "If I Told You" and when some of the cast started crying during the finale) but overall it was a fun time for me.

I would like to say though that I loved that the applause went on for a good minute or so after "It's Your Wedding Day" finished. Stephen was having problems continuing on with his dialoge because the crowd wasn't stopping! Haha. He was thanking us a few times, but the cast was just soaking it. Felicia may or may not have broken the fourth wall to wave at everyone in the crowd, oops.

Overall, everyone performed amazingly well. Felicia got the biggest applause (next to IYWD) after "Let Me Come Home"... again, one that went for forever. Doesn't help that she was egging us on! And I think they put more water in the tube for "Saturday Night in the City", because I have never seen Amy THAT soaked before. She was flinging water back when she was dancing several rows and her wig was she drenched -- very funny and obviously got a great reaction from the crowd.

As mentioned above, Stephen did a speech at the end. They acted as though Stephen hadn't heard the show was closing and mentioned something about coming back to do it on Tuesday and Matthew Saldivar came over and acted like he was whispering in his ear that the show was closing. Lynch looked really confused and was like "what? No one told me!" Anyway, he thanked everyone involved with the show, they brought the crew out and stuff. And they thanked the people who have seen the show .. many, many times and said it was all thanks to them that the show was kept alive as long as it was. They also had former cast members and all swings/understudies on stage during the speech, too. Also, Stephen mentioned it was "the Tony speech he never bothered writing."

Anyway, that's about all I can think of that stood out in my mind. It was a very fun, amazing show and I'll miss it but I can't wait for the tour. :) And for those that haven't heard, some next jobs for certain cast members are Matthew Stocke is going to Los Angeles to be in Wicked. He's playing the Witch's father and the u/s Wizard. Nicolette Hart is going to be going to Rent as Maureen in a couple of weeks through sometime in April. Just thought some people would be interested in knowing that if they hadn't heard!

Thanks for the great review thespian!

...before it became mainstream?

God, I hate mainstream Broadway shows. I liked it first...

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Well, I found that the last show of "The WEdding Singer" was very sad. I teared up as the bars of the first song played and then stopped, but lost it towards the end.

This show was far from brilliant, but it was fun and the cast is an excellent group of people. BTW, apparently Ashley Amber is going to be in "Curtains" so she isn't going very far.

The saddest part for me was watching Richard Blake dance "All About the Green" for the last time. He apparently does not dance at all in "Legally Blonde" (a tragedy, I say!) and I could watch him dance in "All About the Green" one hundred times over. But, that's probably just me.

It was cute that everyone was there for the final show (save for Cara and Matt Allen ) Nick Kenkel and T. Oliver Reid, Constantine and all the swings came out. Stephen's speech was cute and I am glad they said something at the end.

A lot of the cast was crying and it was sad to watch, as many people know how tight this cast was.

I am glad stagedoor wasn't as crazy as we all thought it would be. I felt like it was kind of anticlimatic, but it was nice that people didn't go insane.

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Stage door was pretty packed. But it was fun in the back darting around to catch various cast members and watch the barricade insanity.

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Hey Heather (it's Jess) trust me you won't be the only one missing Richard's dancing! I hope you have a blast in San Fran...can't wait to see the show when it gets back to NY!

And the closing show was amazing. The energy from the audience was so awesome, there was so much love at the Hirsch!

Updated On: 1/1/07 at 02:33 PM

hahaha, oo man. i was gonna ask her but i stopped her a lot that weekend for other people, so i decided not to :/

haha, anyway, lol, back to ws

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