So last weekend I went to NYC. We’d orgionally planned to see if we could get tickets to se Ave Q. Went to the TKTs booth, and decided to see the Wedding Singer instead… GREAT decision! Well first of all, when I got to the theatre, I found out … I got a SECOND ROW SEAT!!! That’s gotta be on the par of winning the lottery! Rather ironic especially since on my way to the theatre, I’d been “Oh can’t forget about asking the usher for an ALD” (An assitive listening device as I am hard of hearing) Turned out I didn’t need it after all! (which is good seeing as while I like the sound, my ear canals are very very small, and putting the earbuds in, makes my ears hurt)
Anyone else seen this besides me? Yeah, I know…initially when I heard that THIS was gonna be a muscial I was like…“WTF?” Seeing the performance at the Tonys made me change my mind…looked really good. It’s actually incredibly funny. A little heavy on the '80’s pop culture references…but still incredibly cleverly done. The cherography was amazing…I still have Saturday Night stuck in my head! The music had me bopping in my seat…and oh man…how could you NOT like a song about crawling out of a dumpster? They have the rapping grandma still in the show, and Someone Kill Me, as well as “Grow Old With You” It’s not a Sondhiem show, or anything that will turn out to be remembered…but neither is it Lestat or Legs Diamond
I saw it a few months ago–their 100th show, in fact, and I loved it. I’m not a huge fan of the movie, and I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about a musical version, but I love Stephen Lynch, and he really made the whole show. Definitely worth seeing. They kept some of my favorite lines from the movie, and still managed to make it pretty fresh, as opposed to just rehashing something I’d already seen.
My personal favorite song was “Casualty of Love,” with backup by the Mutants at Table Nine.
Agreed. My family went to see WS and Hairspray in the same weekend, and I found myself totally disappointed by Hairspray in comparison. In that case, I love the movie, I’d heard great things about the show, and I was totally underwhelmed. My mother, who’d of course never seen either movie nor known anything about the shows in advance, agreed. Singer was just, overall, more clever than anything else I’ve seen in a long time. Some of the comedy is lowest-common-denominator, but not all of it, and it didn’t take itself overly seriously.
100% agreed!!! And I loved loved loved Causalty of Love " I put a top hat on my cat, and asked him to my prom!" Loved the gags too…the guy’s oversized cell phone battery, and the bit with Ron, and Nancy and Cindy Lauper and all those…LOL
Oh, and almost forgot…Constantine from American Idol is in it for a few weeks…He played the drunk uncle. Got to meet him and have him autograph my towel that I got from the rapping Grandma scene…
