The Wedding Singer hits the big stage
STEP back in time and get ready for the biggest party in town - a sparkling new production of The Wedding Singer will visit the Theatre Royal Nottingham for one week only from Tuesday to Saturday, May 9-13.
Jon Robyns, Ray Quinn, Cassie Compton, Roxanne Pallett and Ruth Madoc will star in the hilarious musical based on the hit film.
It’s 1985. Hair is huge, greed is good and rockstar wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s favourite wedding singer. When his own fiancée dumps him at the altar a seriously bummed out Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own.
Can sweet natured Julia and her best friend Holly lure Robbie out of the dumpster and back into the limelight? Or is he going to see her head off down the aisle with Wall Street bad boy Glen. Only grandma Rosie seems to be able to see that Robbie and Julia are the couple that are meant to be.
West End and Musical Theatre star Jon Robyns plays Robbie Hart. Most recently he starred in Legally Blonde as Emmett Forrest and in Sister Act as Eddie Souther; other theatre credits include Enjolras in Les Misérables, Spamalot, Memphis and Avenue Q.
He is joined on stage by British singer-songwriter Ray Quinn as Glen who shot to fame as the runner-up in ITV1’s The X Factor in 2006 and as champion of Dancing on Ice in 2009.
West End leading lady and X Factor finalist Cassie Compton plays Julia; her roles include Jean in American Psycho (Almeida, London) and Eponine in Les Misérables. Playing best friend Holly, Roxanne Pallett is perhaps best known for her longstanding role as Jo in ITV’s Emmerdale.
No stranger to stage and screen, comedy veteran Ruth Madoc joins the company as Grandma Rosie.
Samuel Holmes (Mrs Henderson Presents, West End) will play George. Tara Verloop (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Dirty Dancing in the West End) will play Linda. Other cast include Paris Green, Hannah Jay-Allen, Susie Fenwick, Helen Walsh, Eamonn Cox, Simon Anthony, Ainsley HallRicketts, Andrew Carthy, Mark Pearce, Ryan-Lee Seager and Erin Bell.