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PHOTOS The Cecilian Musical Society presents The Wedding Singer at Lime Tree Theatre, November 20 – 23
The Cecilian Musical Society presents The Wedding Singer at Lime Tree Theatre, November 20 – 23, 2024. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick
Having wowed Limerick with Shrek The Musical last year, the Cecilians are back with the 5-time Tony Awards nominated The Wedding Singer!
Based on the movie of the same name which starred Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore, the musical revolves around rock star wannabe Robbie Hart, New Jersey’s favourite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own.
Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, 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.
The Cecilians are also delighted to welcome back the multi-award-winning production team of Des Henn (Director), Barbara Meany (Choreographer) and Michael Young (Musical Director) as they take you 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.
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The Cecilian Musical Society, then known as the Crescent Operatic Society, was founded in 1919. About five years later the name was changed to the Cecilian Operatic Society, the name having been suggested by Mr. M.J. Flood, then District Justice of Limerick.
From 1928 the society lapsed for several years until 1944, when it was revived as the Cecilian Musical Society, concentrating chiefly on choral and orchestral concerts. With the completion of the new Assembly Hall at the Crescent in 1947, the society once again revived stage shows, and in December of that year opened its productions with a pantomime.
The society went on to present 130 shows on the Crescent stage. In 2002 The Cecilians produced their first show at the University Concert Hall, “Guys and Dolls”.
Since then, ‘Sweet Charity’, ‘Oklahoma’, ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Oliver’, ‘Crazy for You’, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’, ‘42nd Street’, ‘The Wiz’ and last years ‘Shrek’ have been performed to universal acclaim and this years ‘The Wedding Singer’ will be no different and is not be missed!
The stellar cast which are no strangers to Limerick audiences includes Jason Ronan as Robbie, Kim Burke as Julia, Alison Kearney as Holly, Barry Danaher as Glen, Hilary Phayer as Linda, Brian Curtin as Sammy, Jamie Sheehan as George, Gráinne Hartnett as Rosie, and Gillian Hunt as Angie.
Pictures: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick
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