Comedy weds music in show

10:30am Monday 12th November 2007

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REMEMBER the 1980s when hair was big, greed was good and shoulder pads were in? Now you can revisit the decade that fashion forgot thanks to The Wedding Singer, the musical which arrives at The Mayflower next summer (July 21 to 26).

The show features wannabe rock star Robbie Hart as everyone's favourite wedding singer who is the life and soul of the party - until he gets jilted at the altar.

Shot through the heart, he then makes every wedding as disastrous as his own until Julia, a waitress, enters his life and wins his love.

There's only one small snag - Julia is about to be married.

The Wedding Singer features TV star Jonathan Wilkes, whose theatre credits include the lead roles in The Rocky Horror Show, Tommy and Grease, and Natalie Casey, who has just wowed the West End in Fame and is well known from BBC2's smash hit comedy Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

Based on the 1998 blockbuster movie starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, this hotly anticipated UK premiere direct from Broadway boasts the perfect marriage of hilarious comedy and a sensational score.

Directed by and with spectacular choreography from Karen Bruce, the co-producers of Footloose, Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Hot Flush and the new production of Aspects Of Love present the first ever UK National Tour and pre-West End production of this major new musical.

Tickets for The Wedding Singer (July 21-26, 2008) are on sale on November 22 from The Mayflower box office 023 8071 1811, online at mayflower.org.uk or in person from Mayflower ticket south, at WestQuay Shopping Centre, Southampton.