Zoey’s Perfect Wedding

As the audience filters into the theatre, the DJ (Nick Ducassi) is already bantering and spinning tunes. The beautifully appointed dining table at the wedding reception is gradually populated by three friends—Charlie (Jeff Biel), Sammy (Grayson DeJesus), and Rachel (Mallory Portnoy)—whom the bride, Zoey (Nija Okoro), has known since college. We then meet a young woman, Missy (Kristin Villaneuva), a recent college graduate, who, for lack of work in her chosen field, is thrust into the role of a wedding planner.

As we learn in the program guide, the story is loosely based on a wedding that the playwright, Matthew Lopez, attended a few years after college, which ended up ruining the night for him and his friends. Lopez also notes that it is easy to be a narcissist at someone else’s wedding, that is, making it about oneself—rather than the couple and their family—which we see in spades from all of the characters, save Zoey, whom we excuse from this judgment, since she is the bride and the event is supposed to be mostly about her.

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