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Break Out Your Piano Ties… The PDS Upper School Presents “The Wedding Singer” - Buoyant Musical Runs February 24-26 at the McAneny Theater

Princeton – The Princeton Day School Performing Arts Department will present The Wedding Singer, a musical comedy based on the New Line Cinema film of the same name, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, on February 24-26 in the McAneny Theater on the PDS campus.

Directed by PDS Artist-in-Residence Stan Cahill, The Wedding Singer chronicles the story of rock-star wannabe Robbie Heart, who still lives in his grandmother’s basement, and is New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. It’s 1985, the era of the power ballad, and Robbie is 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. Then he meets Julia, an admiring young waitress, and Robbie falls madly in love. The 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.

The production, choreographed by Artist-in-Residence Ann Robideaux, features thirty-three student actors in grades 9 through 12 and an elaborate and colorful set designed by Technical Director Jeffrey Van Velsor. Twenty-five students will be serving as the crew for the shows, and the projection sequences were designed by senior Eric Falcon of Princeton. 

Performances are open to the public and begin at 8 p.m. Thursday, February 24, with evening shows Friday and Saturday as well as a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday. Tickets, priced $10 for adults and $8 for students, can be purchased at the theater box office or online at www.pds.org/boxoffice.

For this production, PDS will be offering special VIP On-Stage Tickets. These tickets offer audience members the opportunity to be part of the action on-stage, but also the chance to play an integral part in sending a group of PDS students to Edinburgh, Scotland, where they will represent United States high schools at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer.