quickest marriage

i'm guessing there are spoilers so i'll say it as to not tick of people on this board...

so i was listening to the wedding singer thinking... how long did they actually know each other before they got married at the end of the show???? and what other musicals have quick marriages?

soon to be stage musical... Little Mermaid was like what, 3 or 4 days before they got married?

Miss Saigon was like the next day when they got "married"

Beauty and the Beast... a few months perhaps?

Light in the Piazza... a few days i think

others?

Unfortunately, all I can think of is long ones. Sound of Music, She Loves Me (do they actually get married in the show?), ...

Bye Bye Birdie (in the show or implied?) - 8yrs+
Momma Mia - 20yrs+

Updated On: 11/1/06 at 09:44 AM

Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury". Adds new meaning to "courtship" as the judge marries the girl within hours.

Suspension of Disbelief.

The Producers, Leo and Ulla know eachother for the time of rehearsals. Which isn't very long, probably a month.

I found a pattern in most musical marrages. After seeing a few musical marrages I realized that the only time a character is marrying another character that they have dated for a long time is when they actually talk about it. Like, they would talk about how they dated this person for a while ect. Whereas if the character meets the character that they end up marrying, It is usually done by the end of the show to give the audience a happy ending. And the time between the dating and the marrage always fits in with the timeing of the show.

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