PLAY REVIEW: After a two-year delay, ‘Four Weddings and an Elvis’ hits the Victoria Jubilee Hall stage

April 27, 2022 @ 10:11 amArts & Entertainment, Walkerton Herald-Times

“The Payback” has Bev and Stan visit a Las Vegas wedding chapel, complete with Elvis, to get married as revenge against their ex-spouses. (Pauline Kerr photo)
“The Comeback” sees two aging movie stars, Vanessa and Bryce, stage a celebrity wedding – their own – to help revive their careers. (Pauline Kerr photo)
“The Real Thing” features Fiona, a tough ex-con, the man she loves - a meek postal worker named Marvin, her ex-boyfriend Fist, and wedding chapel owner Sandy. (Pauline Kerr photo)
After a two-year wait due to COVID, the County Towne Players are finally staging their production, Four Weddings and an Elvis, at Victoria Jubilee Hall. (Above) In the “Epilogue,” everyone shows up for Sandy’s wedding – from the left, Bryce, Vanessa, Marvin, Fiona, Sandy, Lou, Bev, Fist and John/Elvis. (Pauline Kerr photo)
Will the course of true love ever run smooth for Sandy, shown with John/Elvis and Lou? Four Weddings and an Elvis, the County Towne Players’ 2022 show, is the best kind of romantic comedy – fun, witty and sentimental. The show opens at Victoria Jubilee Hall on April 29. (Pauline Kerr photo)
It was worth the wait. Two years ago, County Towne Players were two weeks away from their dress rehearsal for the comedy Four Weddings and an Elvis by Nancy Frick. Enter COVID-19. Exit live theatre performances at Victoria Jubilee Hall for two long, grim years. With most COVID restrictions now lifted, the theatre group members…
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Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Pauline Kerr is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the Walkerton Herald-Times. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.