CHICAGO—When it premiered as a stage musical “The Wedding Singer,” which was adapted from the film of the same name, opened in the huge 1,424-seat Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway. Putting on musical productions in big auditoriums has been, for the most part, typical for musicals today. Now, though, the “Wedding Singer” musical has been revived on the small, black-box theater space of the Edge Off Broadway theater in Chicago.
A change in venue space can sometimes make a big difference for patrons. Indeed, in the revival by Surging Films & Theatrics that recently opened at the Edge, the show is better than its Broadway predecessor. That’s because rather than sitting far from the stage, theatergoers, now closer to the performers, can feel as though they are part of the action.
