'A Catered Affair' Launches Site & Online Wedding Album

The creators of A Catered Affair, the new Broadway-bound musical about a 1953 Bronx wedding, are inviting everyone to share their own personal wedding stories, pictures and videos with one another via the show's brand new website.

The A Catered Affair Online Wedding Album at www.ACateredAffairOnBroadway.com will be a living, interactive album of stories and snapshots from people everywhere as well as personal wedding memories from the show's stars and a cross section of celebrated New Yorkers.

A Catered Affair is Broadway's newest musical: with a book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, score by acclaimed composer John Bucchino and direction by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, the musical stars Tony Award-winner Faith Prince (as the mother-of-the-bride), Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat (father-of-the-bride), Harvey Fierstein (uncle-of-the-bride), Leslie Kritzer (the bride) and Matt Cavenaugh (the groom).

Visitors to the website will be greeted by a message from Harvey Fierstein who will direct them to an area where they can add their personal wedding stories and be entered to win a trip for two to New York on Delta Airlines to attend the opening night performance and gala celebration with the cast, with accommodations at the Flatotel in Manhattan.

A Catered Affair will begin preview performances on Tuesday, March 25 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).  Prior to Broadway, the new musical inaugurated the 2007-8 Season at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre (where the show just received 7 San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding New Musical).

"A Catered Affair asks the question that inevitably faces every mother and daughter: Whose wedding is it anyway?  The musical tells the story of a Bronx mother's efforts to give her only daughter the elaborate wedding she never had – and the bride never asked for.  In this funny, poignant and oh, so human show of love and disaffection, Harvey Fierstein's book and John Bucchino's score explore both our need for love and the true meaning of family," explain press notes.

The new musical will be produced on Broadway by Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment/Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson, Daryl Roth, John O'Boyle/Rick Stevens, Frankel-Baruch-Viertel-Routh Group, Live Nation, True Love Productions and Stacey Mindich.  The musical is based on the Turner Entertainment motion picture distributed by Warner Brothers and written by Gore Vidal, and the original teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky.

Harvey's Home Page Message on www.ACateredAffaironBroadway.com

"Hi.  I'm Harvey Fierstein, playwright and one of the stars of the new musical, A Catered Affair.  Our show tells the story of a young couple who want to get married without the usual chazzerei of a big wedding – good luck!  Their families, of course, want a big, fat, expensive catered affair – good luck to them!  In other words, our show is all about the fun, foibles, faux pas and frictions of throwing a family wedding.  Now we get to tell our story on stage eight times a week, but we'd like to invite you to become part of our family album by telling us your wedding stories, showing us your wedding photos and sharing your wedding videos.  Click the buttons below to join our family album with your personal wedding memories.  And don't forget to check out everyone else's stories and photos - who knows what you'll find?  You might even read something about yourself.  So click."