Please, not another wedding play, the jaded theatergoer might think — not after “Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding,” “Mamma Mia!” and that big fat Greek number.

Not to worry. Manoa Valley Theatre’s production of “It Shoulda Been You” a 2015 Broadway musical getting its Hawaii premiere, successfully wooed the audience Saturday night.

Set on the morning of a wedding in a ritzy hotel, the action revolves around the conflict between the families of the Jewish bride and the rich, WASP groom. It opens with a five-piece band in white wedding yarmulkes playing onstage as spinster Jenny Steinberg, played with warmth, charm and wit by Callie Doan, sings about “something blue-ish/ When you’re Jewish/ and 32-ish,” but how she never wants to get married. Sure. The long-suffering Jenny is the older sister and co-maid of honor to the beautiful bride Rebecca (Dusty Behner).

In a lovely duet between the sisters, Jenny sings “It’s gonna be perfect” to the nervous, fraught Rebecca. As we later learn, Rebecca and her groom, the goody-two-shoes Brian Howard (a dashing Matthew Mazzella), and their steamy besties Annie (Alison Maldonado) and Greg (Andrew Baker), have a hidden agenda. (The duo’s show-stopping reception toast and a few other scenes contain sexually suggestive, coarse language and choreography for adult audiences only.)

Oblivious to these subplots, true-blue Jenny forges on as wedding manager, the “right hand” of their shrewish mother Judy, who is embodied with chutzpah and perfect pitch by Shari Lynn, well matched with Howard Bishop as her tanned but henpecked husband Murray.

Enter the uninvited Marty Kaufman (David Heulitt), former boyfriend of Rebecca and school friend of Jenny, who has a reason the couple should not be united, only he’s not talking to anyone but the bride, who refuses to see him. It is to the bespectacled, nerdy Marty that Rebecca’s parents sing, “It shoulda been you … at least you’re a Jew.”

A class act, Lynn alone would be enough reason to watch this show, putting the nasty into songs such as “Nice,” but the other strong players in this production rise to meet her, providing the icing on the wedding cake.

Particular standouts are Larry Bialock as Albert, the wedding director who has seen it all, and Suzanne Green, who plays the groom’s gin-loving mother with an elegant earthiness that recalls Lauren Bacall as she admits she tried to turn Brian gay to maintain their relationship. “I took him to everything Sondheim … How can he take on a wife? I am the girl in his life.”

Dennis Proulx is splendid as her husband, a chilly goodfellow of a WASP dad who suddenly springs paternal warmth on his long-alienated son.

Throughout this funny, melodious and briskly paced production, directed by Bree Kale‘a Peters, the actors touch our emotions, moving us to laughter and making us care, transcending the stock characterizations written into the script. Singing “I’ll take whatever, whenever,” Doan and Heulitt discover a convincing chemistry.

However, while these two, along with Albert and the four parents, quip and kvetch with impeccable comic timing, others in the cast could lose their eye rolls, double takes and other mugging; they ham it up too much to be kosher, no matter your persuasion.

Love is a many-splendored and varied thing in “It Shoulda Been You.” As Jenny sings in a touching ballad, she simply wants to be told she is beautiful just as she is, while the big-eyed Behner tugs the heartstrings with her eloquent solo, “A Little Bit Less Than.”

In this generous production, what seems at first to be another ho-hum take on a universal theme comes updated with surprises the current generation of young eligibles — as well as their parents — will enjoy.