The Wedding Singer to be Performed in White Plains

The Wedding Singer, based on the 1998 Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore movie of the same name will be performed at the White Plains Performing Arts Center on Friday May 6, Saturday May 7 and Sunday May 8. WPPAC is the only regional theatre in Westchester with its own resident conservatory and is under the artistic direction of Off-Broadway Director and renowned theatre educator, Jeremy Quinn.

Performances are: Friday, May 6 @ 8:00 pm; Saturday, May 7 @ 8:00 pm AND Sunday, May 8 @ 2:00 pm (Mother’s Day).

White Plains Performing Arts Center’s Conservatory performances are full-scale, Broadway-style productions at the 410-seat theatre in downtown White Plains at the City Center. Tickets for all performances are $15 for students and $20 for adults. To purchase tickets, please call (877) 548-3237 or go online to www.wppac.com.

With five 2006 TONY nominations (including Best Musical, Book, Original Score, Choreography and Leading Actor), eight Drama Desk Award nominations including “Outstanding Music” and three Drama League Award nominations including “Distinguished Production of a Musical”; The Wall Street Journal states: “Very funny...laugh yourself silly! The most ingenious and amusing musical of a Hollywood film ever.”, while Time Out New York writes “Full of knockout comic numbers!”

The story: It’s 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Heart, who still lives in his grandmother's basement, is New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party until his fiancé, Linda, leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. When he meets an Julia, an admiring young waitress, Robbie falls madly in love. Only trouble is Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. With a score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980s, The Wedding Singer takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room.

Under the direction of Yonkers resident and Conservatory Artistic Director, Jeremy Quinn, the show’s many production numbers are choreographed by Yorktown favorite Linda Duci with musical direction by the newest addition to the Conservatory team, Audra Cramer.

For additional information about THE WEDDING SINGER and its cast, please call the Education Department at 914-328-1600 ext. 16 or email education@wppac.com.