YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR!
We all need a good laugh at the moment, don’t we? Lichfield Players promised just that in their 2011/12 season closer, Wedding of the Year by Norman Robbins.
Alison Murchinson is … well, let’s just say she’s not the sort of girl you’d expect to be entered as a candidate in a Wedding of the Year competition. But that’s exactly what her Uncle Frank does, choosing a designer to create her wedding dress even before a suitable husband has been found. Then his eye falls on neighbour Walter Thornton’s son Melvyn, a frustrated (and incredibly clumsy) inventor. Add to the mix a nosy neighbour and some elderly aunts, and the scene is set. However, as they say, the best laid plans …
Players’ Chairman Andrew Bodger directed this, the final play of the company’s 2011-12 season, with a very experienced cast of Players “regulars”. Cast members reported that they hadn’t laughed so much for ages as they did at the first read-through – and audiences joined in the fun at the Lichfield Garrick Studio between Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 May!
