Wedding Singer Review - July 4th

I saw the show tonight for the second time tonight. I saw it for the first time last week and Felicia was out and Nicolette was on. Well tonight again, Felicia was out and Nicolette played Linda. In the 6 day period since I last saw the show, Nicolette's performance has grown very much. I enjoyed it much more than I did last week and today, I thought she did an excellent job. I still have to see Felicia though.

All of the other leads were in the show and everyone was great. Amy sounded a bit sick but she was great as Holly. I enjoyed Laura's performance more this time, but still think she is miscast as Julia. Stephen is great, as are Kevin, Matthew, Richard, and Rita.

Some annoying things happened tonight as well. Behind me, the girl was singing A LOT of the songs. And when she wasn't singing, she was reciting some of the script, and then telling her friend what parts she liked and didn't like. It really got on my nerves because a lot of the time, I could hear her over the actors.

Also, at the stage door, there was this group of 3, Paris Hilton-looking wannabes who brought a probably 13 year old boy with them (maybe a brother?). Well the boy kept on asking the guard, "When is the gay guy coming out?" and "Where is the gay guy?" before someone told him the character's name is George. Then the bodyguard, to my liking, said, "Kevin will be out soon, and I will tell him what you said about him." After this, the girls hid the boy behind them so that Kevin wouldn't know that he was with them so that they could get a picture with him. This was a REALLY rude kid.

Overall, I had a great time and will be back later in the month to see Cara Cooper as Holly.

Ugh, that's annoying. Sorry you had to deal with those people.

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well this show
will draw those
People

i totall agree, curtain.

or Slap em?

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Updated On: 7/5/06 at 08:47 AM

It's really confusing as to why they don't have one - especially as they could probably think of something cutesy to say.

Though of course, I'd prefer "Turn the damn things off, it's illegal and we'll throw you out" in a really menacing voice.

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Soooo...
We should hope that the Bway shows will be populated by tht 65+ crowd who will not be able to attend shows much longer? And we should hope young people don't go to the theatre?

Brilliant.

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Nah. His fans usually wait till the stagedoor to do that.

I admit that I "woo", "whoop", "woot" and holler a lot. But besides my one "woo" right after Kevin Cahoon plays the trumpet (Kevin and I have a moment, you can ask him - I wait a beat, I woo, and he looks at me and says "thank you"... I should've received a Tony for that stuff, man), I usually try to just "woo" a lot after each number or when appropriate.

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The worst audience members I've ever sat beside have all been elderly. Better kids getting excited at the end of songs than two 65 year olds carrying on a conversation throughout. It's ALWAYS them. And generally, it's them with the cell phones too. During "Satellites' recently TWO elderly people in our row had them go off - one was that lovely "Fur Elise" ringtone.

Back to Wedding Singer - I actually have been lucky with that and cell phones... maybe I was there on good nights?

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Is Felicia Finley on vacation? It seems she has been out this entire week (she was out again today at the matinee...)

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Yeah but vacations usually are an entire show week, which is Tuesday through Sunday, so if she was on vacation, her first day off would have been yesterday (or, in this week's case, Monday.)

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In addition to Felicia, David Josefsberg was out and Kevin Kern subbed for him.

I was hoping someone would mention Kevin being on for David. How was he? :) No one I know went to the show last night so I can't get any kind of review from them..