I never saw The Wedding Singer. Never saw the Adam Sandler movie. Never saw the Broadway show based on it. But I did see this number from the latter on the 2006 Tony Awards and when I did, I thought, "Boy, that's going to sell a lot of tickets." Apparently, it did. The show opened on April 27, 2006 to not-wonderful reviews and probably would have closed rather swiftly…but it got a big boost from the Tonys, which were on June 11. It didn't win any awards that night, even though it was nominated for thirteen, including Best Musical. But this one number was so powerful that it caused a surge in ticket-buying and the show was able to last out the year. It closed on December 31 after 285 performances and I don't think it's had many (if any) productions since then.
There's no real point here other than that I think this is a great number. If the whole show had been this good, it would probably still be running.
