{"id":162699,"date":"2025-11-17T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=162699"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:21:23","slug":"wdtn-wright-states-wedding-singer-shows-off-future-talent-of-musical-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/11\/17\/wdtn-wright-states-wedding-singer-shows-off-future-talent-of-musical-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"WDTN: Wright State\u2019s &#8216;Wedding Singer\u2019 shows off \u2018future talent of musical theatre\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/11\/17\/wdtn-wright-states-wedding-singer-shows-off-future-talent-of-musical-theatre\/251111_8675_theatre_the-wedding-singer-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162781\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-162781\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2025\/11\/251111_8675_Theatre_The-Wedding-Singer-1-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>Beginning Thursday, Nov. 13, Wright State theatre fans, would-be wedding singers and musical lovers in general can watch the university\u2019s adaptation of \u201cThe Wedding Singer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across its nine performances over eight days, the production will feature the talents of what director Jaime Cordes says is \u201ctruly the future talent of musical theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show is, of course, based on the 1998 film starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.<\/p>\n<p>The musical is in love with the \u201880s, featuring plenty of tunes familiar to fans of that era. If you\u2019re unfamiliar with the movie, the story follows wedding singer Robbie, who is left heartbroken after being left at the altar. Fortunately for him, he develops a love for music and finds new love in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like \u2018The Wedding Singer\u2019 at this point is something we really need,\u201d Cordes says. \u201cIt\u2019s a heartfelt story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great show, full of laughs and \u201980s magic,\u201d says David Cremean, who plays Robbie.<\/p>\n<p>Playing characters of the \u201880s is something that Gavin O\u2019Meara \u2014 who plays Robbie\u2019s best friend George \u2014 and Cremean had a lot of fun researching.<\/p>\n<p>They each listened to music of that era and Cremean even kept a playlist of \u201980s songs and learned some guitar to get into the headspace of his character as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdtn.com\/entertainment\/wedding-singer-wright-state-adam-sandler-drew-barrymore\/\">Read the story on wdtn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning Thursday, Nov. 13, Wright State theatre fans, would-be wedding singers and musical lovers in general can watch the university\u2019s adaptation of \u201cThe Wedding Singer.\u201d Across its nine performances over eight days, the production will feature the talents of what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/11\/17\/wdtn-wright-states-wedding-singer-shows-off-future-talent-of-musical-theatre\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":162781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162788,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162699\/revisions\/162788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}