Added on October 1, 2018 Sara Swanson

Perfect Wedding - Chelsea Area Players' humorous dinner theater

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Photo courtesy of Vicki Wurster.

Director Vicki Wurster

An appalling situation. A bridegroom wakes on his wedding morning in his Honeymoon suite in a small Michigan town ... on the day of the wedding, with his bride-to-be about to arrive any moment, and finds a strange girl in bed beside him. This is not a crazy Facebook story, but in fact the plot of the Chelsea Area Players’s upcoming production of “Perfect Wedding,” which is being directed by Manchester’s Vicki Wurster.

The dinner theater comedy in two acts by Robin Hawdon and produced by Todd Ducsay, is being performed at St Mary Catholic Church in Chelsea, located at 14200 East Old U.S. Hwy. 12. Tickets cost $35.00 each with group rates available for a table of eight if purchased in advance by calling 734-745-8713. Show dates are November 2 & 3, with dinner at 6:30 pm and show time at 7:30 pm and November 4 with a matinee dinner at 2:30 pm and show time 3:30 pm.

In the play, the attractive girl whom, in the depths of the groom’s post bachelor party hangover, he can’t remotely remember even having been introduced to, gets trapped in the bathroom during the ensuing panic to get dressed when the bride arrives. The best man has to pretend the hidden girl is his girlfriend, his real girlfriend has to be kept ignorant of the fact, and the hotel chamber-maid gets mistaken for everybody’s girlfriend! By the time the bride’s parents and half the hotel staff get in on the act, the chaos reaches nuclear proportions.

This Chelsea Area Players production’s cast features Shelley Wheaton as the bride, Jeff Boyer as the groom, Gary Glover as the best man, Claudia Santure at the girlfriend, Norma Graflund as the maid, and Dawn Clark as the mother. Wurster stated, “[It's] Hilarious, the cast works well together ... having to stop often to stop laughing and regroup!”

Wurster has directed and produced many shows for the Chelsea Area Players including Father of the Bride, Curious Savage, Let's Murder Marsha, Love, Sex and the IRS and more. “It is a great feeling when it all comes together ... the acting, the stage and props and the venue," she said. "The audience reaction makes all the hours of rehearsal so worth it!”

“Thank you everyone involved from dinner to the cast, building the set and getting the props," she added. "Community theater is about a team having fun while getting a production ready for the stage. ‘Break a leg’.”