Her wedding was called off — but her show must go on.
NJ native Noelle Salvati’s fiancé canceled her wedding without an explanation a month before she was set to walk down the aisle — but the singer-songwriter not only moved on, she turned the heartbreak into a musical.
And the show is debuting 14 years later on what was to be her wedding date.
“I was supposed to get married October 1st, and I was at my final dress fitting, coming back from Kleinfeld with my best friend and I walked into my apartment and realized, ‘Oh, I haven’t heard from my fiancé,’ and I went to call him and his phone number was no longer in service,” Salvati, 41, recalled to The Post.
“A day or two after that, I got an email from him calling the wedding off. It was just basically, ‘I’m calling things off on my side. I recommend you do the same.’”
Salvati, who had met her ex, whom she dated for three years, through a couple that lived in her building, recalled the low point of returning to the apartment they once shared after he moved out.
“And the closets were cleared out, all of his stuff was gone. I remember dropping to my knees,” she said.
“I was broken. I had a really, really hard time putting myself back together again, if I’m being completely honest. And no, I never got any closure, ever.”
That’s all changing with the premiere of “Swipe Right: A New Musical,” which finds inspiration from the traumatic end to her engagement with songs like “Ghosted” and “Coward,” and her post-breakup dating life.
After her 2011 split, Salvati, who had never used dating apps before, entered the world of online dating, and would recount her disaster stories to her friend and fellow Hoboken resident, Michael Attanasio.
“At one point Noelle was singing about a date that had gone badly, and I was like, ‘That’s really funny. Maybe we could do something talking about the ridiculousness of online dating,’” said Attanasio, the show’s writer.
Salvati, who is still looking for Mr. Right, also penned songs for the musical — which is at the Triad Theater on the Upper West Side for one night only on Oct. 1. — about the frogs she’s met on Tinder and Bumble with titles like “Cross Him Off the List.”
She recalled one of her strange encounters, with a man who claimed he was in the process of getting divorced.
“After one of our dates, he invited me back to his place to listen to some music and hang out. As he was showing me around the apartment, he casually mentioned that one of the rooms we passed was actually his ex-wife’s room,” she said.
“After this nonchalant remark, he told me that his ex-wife was still living with him as his roommate.”
In between each of the songs, actors also reveal their worst first date experiences, and one is from a woman who was with a man for a few months, until he asked an unnerving question.
“He kind of mentioned very casually, ‘I have a question for you. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to ethically source human meat?’” Attanasio said.
And she was like, ‘Wait, what do you mean?’ And this led to him essentially confessing that he would like to try cannibalism.”
“But he didn’t want her to eat McDonald’s,” Salvati added.
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