Musical Will Benefit Girl With Brain Tumor

Jessica Pastore, a former Bloomfield High School student who lost her vision due to cancer last year, is having a musical production performed just for her.

Bloomfield’s charitable theatre organization, Talent Time, is putting on a full-scale music show, "The Wedding Singer," at Bloomfield High School on Thursday, Friday,  Saturday, August 2, 3, 4 & 9, 10 and 11.  Proceeds from the show will benefit

The Bloomfield community is rallying around Pastore, known to friends and family as an extraordinary young woman who is “one of the strongest, most positive people I’ve ever met,” in the words of a friend. Now homeschooled, Pastore was previously an honors student and member of the Bloomfield High School choir.

The Talent Time organization has been helping people through the arts since 1950, when a young man named Charles Seller was struck by a train, losing one of his legs. His family and friends came together to put on a variety show named Talent Time to aid in his medical costs. This started a tradition in Bloomfield, NJ, that has lasted for more than 60 years. Each summer the theater group produces and performs a musical in which all profits go towards an area resident with high medical bills.

Check out The Talent Time/Charles Seller Foundation Facebook page.

Email:  TheCharlesSellerFoundation@gmail.com

The Charles Seller Foundation

P.O. Box 1503

Bloomfield, NJ 07003

THE SHOW
it’s 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party, until his own fiancee leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. Only trouble is Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. With a brand new score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980′s, THE WEDDING SINGER takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room.

CAST
Robbie Hart – Esteban Vazquez
Julia Sullivan – Courtney Charatsaris
Holly – Rylee Card
Sammy – Jon LoPiccolo
George – Ruben Soto
Glen Guglia – Matt Kyle
Rosie – Lynda Dickson
Linda – Samantha Kaplan
Angie/Ensemble – Bonner Doemling
Ensemble – Anthony Aliaga
Ensemble –Jackie Asbury
Ensemble –Theresa Barbetta
Ensemble –Theresa Cannone
Ensemble –Nancy Contreras
Ensemble – Omaris Contreras
Ensemble – Alyssa Crespo
Ensemble –Christopher Cruz
Ensemble – Schuylar Doemling
Ensemble – Linzee Duncan
Ensemble – Julie Gallup
Ensemble – Maya Gandara
Ensemble – Kellsie Cara Jones
Ensemble – Tarajee Kaplan
Ensemble – Aurora La Veglia
Ensemble –Justine Lancaster
Ensemble – Bree-Ana Moss
Ensemble – Joshua Nieve-Silva
Ensemble – Mark Shellhorn
Ensemble – Noah Silva
Ensemble – Christian Stewart
Ensemble – John Wiley

For more information, please call 973-951-6123.

The Wedding Singer is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performances materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54^th St., NY, NY  10019. Phone: 212-541-4584 Fax: 212-397-4584. www.mtishows.com

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