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About 25 students are spending their winter break preparing for the Mandell JCC's all-teen musical, "The Wedding Singer," an '80s flashback comedy that will open Thursday at the Zachs Campus, 335 Bloomfield Ave.
The director, 17-year-old Mac Cherny, is a senior at Conard High School. Other Greater Hartford students from ages 11 to 17 are involved in producing, choreographing and starring in the show, which is based on the 1998 Adam Sandler film.
"I've been in the JCC almost every day, and we've been working around the clock," Cherny said Friday. "It's all put on by the kids."
Cherny described the musical as "Sandler's humor with a really awesome '80s soundtrack."
The lead actors are Hall High School's Max Ferrar, playing Robbie Hart, the broken-hearted New Jersey wedding singer; and Mercy High School's Abby Geremia in the role of Julia Sullivan, the waitress who Robbie eventually woos.
Teen musicians Stephen Bridgman, Alonzo DeJesus, Max Dvorin, Jonathan Sussler, Dan Weinreb and Emily Weiser will perform the musical score of '80s pop songs, organizers said.
The opening performance is set for 7 p.m. Thursday in the Mandell JCC's Herbert Gilman Theater, followed by encore shows at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 8.
Tickets ? $5 for students and $8 for adults ? can be purchased at the Mandell JCC Box Office, 860-231-6316 or tickets@mandelljcc.org, and the Member Services Center, 860-236-4571.
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