The Wedding Singer

This week I went to see "The Wedding Singer" at Layton High. It was so cute, and it was all about weddings! It's set in 1985. At the beginning, while Robbie Hart is singing at a wedding he announces that the next day he's going to marry his girlfriend, Linda. Later, he meets a waitress named Julia. She makes him promise that when she gets married, he will sing at her wedding. The next morning at Robbie's wedding, Linda is a no-show. She leaves him a letter that says that she decided that she was really in love with Robbie seven years ago, but not Robbie now. She signs it, "Your Pal, Linda (The i is dotted with a heart)" Robbie is absolutely crushed and never wants to go to another wedding again. When his band convinces him to come sing again, he gets upset and insults just about everyone at the wedding. In the end they get angry and throw him in the dumpster. Julia comes and convinces him to come out, and that he doesn't belong in the dumpster. She then tells him that she is getting married to her super rich boyfriend, Glen Ghoulia.

As the play goes on and Robbie and Julia spend more time together, they both start realizing that they actually love each other. In an attempt to impress Julia, Robbie goes to her boyfriend, Glen, who gets him started on Wall Street. However, Robbie realizes that Glen is really a jerk. He doesn't really care about Julia and he cheats on her all the time. He goes to talk to Julia at her house, but in the end chickens out and goes to a bar where he gets drunk. When he gets home, Linda is waiting for him. She tells him that it wasn't working out without him, and that she wants to "come home" to him. Robbie passes out because he's drunk, and while he's passed out Julia comes to tell him how she feels about him. Linda tells her that she and Robbie are back together again. Julia is so upset, that she decides to just hop on a plane to Vegas with Glen and get married. When Robbie hears about this, he hurries to go there and find them. Just as he gives up, a man comes to him and tells him that the organ player for a wedding didn't show up, and they want him to play guitar. They say that the man is super rich and would probably pay him a lot. Robbie goes and finds Julia and Glen. He sings Julia a song about how we wants to grow old with her and that he loves her. Julia finds out the truth about Glen, and marries Robbie. The end of the play shows their wedding, and they all live happily ever after.

This show was so good. The acting and the singing were both amazing. It was cool to me that I got to go see it because I'm trying out for next year's musical, "The Drowsy Chaperone", in a month. So it motivated me to do the best I can on my audition so that I can be part of that next year. Everyone in the play really made you feel like you were part of the story and it was really happening. It was one of the best productions I have ever seen, and I'm so glad that I get to go there next year!