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What the Rabbi Saw

Adrienne Barbeau (on the east coast) and Eva Longoria (on the west coast) have headed casts of this crazy, slapstick farce which takes pre-wedding jitters to nightmare proportions.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Gun Shots, Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
In a posh New York hotel, just before Walter and Wendy are scheduled to say "I do," Walter's zipper becomes attached to his bride's sister's dress during a last-minute act of infidelity. Meanwhile, Wendy is having a fling with the best man.

This finely-tuned exercise in physical comedy zips from one hilarious situation to the next as all try to hide their exploits and make it to the church on time. 
REVIEWS:

"The most fun I never had at a wedding!"

 LA Times

"Think Ray Cooney and Ken Ludwig combined and revved up! [...] Bawdy fun!"

 Backstage

"Vintage Van Zandt & Milmore: full of silly, zany madcap antics at a rapid fire pace. Endless pratfalls, door ballets and bits of physical comedy have actors diving under beds and into suitcases, getting hit with silver platters, hiding under wedding gowns, slipping on ice cubes, dodging bullets, falling off buildings, and jumping in and out of closet doors which seem to have minds of their own."

 Asbury Park Press

Premiere Production: What the Rabbi Saw was first produced by Mark Fleming at the Henderson Theater in Lincroft, New Jersey on May 18, 1995.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 4F

  • WALTER - the groom
    WENDY - the bride
    CLAUDIA - the bridesmaid
    MITCH - the best man
    LAINIE BERMAN - the singer
    NOEL - the wedding coordinator
    MR. KIRSCHENBAUM - the father of the bride
    MRS. KIRSCHENBAUM - the mother of the bride
    RABBI HUCHELMAN - the rabbi
    VINNIE - the uninvited guest
    EDDIE - the wedding photographer

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    In a posh New York hotel, just before Walter and Wendy are scheduled to say "I do," Walter's zipper becomes attached to his bride's sister's dress during a last-minute act of infidelity. Meanwhile, Wendy is having a fling with the best man. This finely-tuned exercise in physical comedy zips from one hilarious situation to the next as all try to hide their exploits and make it to the church on time. 

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