3 actors play 15 different
characters in 5 different restaurants, on the hunt for 1 true love.
The evening begins at Dean’s Old-Fashioned All-American Down-Home
Bar-B-Que Texas Eats, where a blind date goes char-broiled wrong.
Next, at the Trattoria Pericolo, a mob wife has a secret rendezvous
behind her husband’s back. At Der Schlupfwinkel Speiseplatz,
a waiter, a dominatrix, and her kept man discover at the same hilarious
moment that they are all dating each other. In Ernesto’s Cantina,
a hill bandit and his rival battle for the hand of the beautiful
Rosalinda. And at the Star-Lite Diner, a waitress pines for her
true love and gets a little help from Cupid in making her dreams
come true.
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A VERY SINGLE MAN
(sung by the composer)
Matt is in his car on his way to the first date he’s had
in a very long time. Traffic is stacked and he’s late! |
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JUMPIN’ THE GUN
(sung by the composer)
Barbie and Matt meet each other and lean in to the possibility
of a very exciting evening together. |
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PICK ME
(sung by the composer)
Ernesto and Guillermo, men with very different strengths, fight
for the hand of the fair Rosalinda. |
“FEAST ON FIVE COURSE LOVE…The cast of three play 15
different characters in different restaurants in different countries
to hilarious effect…Writer/composer Gregg Coffin and the entire
creative team deserve kudos…a smashing production!”
—LIZ SMITH, Syndicated Columnist
“Pleasantly fluffy…five looks at love set in five different
restaurants…Gregg Coffin, who wrote the music, lyrics and
book, seems to have a nice ear for catchy, zippy tunes…Lots
of laughs!”
“FIVE COURSE LOVE is artfully silly and genuinely funny…hilarious
and imaginative.”
“The ingredients are all there…a pretty tasty experience.”
“FIVE COURSE LOVE is a delectable new musical that gives us
love and laughter in 5 restaurants on one fateful night…a
tremendous amount of fun…The music and lyrics are bright and
happy…enough good food in it for everyone to enjoy.”
“Genuinely heartwarming…an undercurrent of unrequited
love pierces the often blistering, breakneck comedy and creates
moments of surprising seriousness and sentimentality…distinctive,
tuneful, and highly memorable…”
“…It's as fluffy as mousse and often just as delicious…a
clever little roundelay…full of wonderfully silly, over-the-top
histrionics…FIVE COURSE LOVE would make a great first-date
musical…packed with witty lyrics and shared mayhem…”
“It’s a cute, diverting, fast-paced little show…alternately
silly and sweet, raunchy and romantic…sweetly sincere…”
“In FIVE COURSE LOVE we get an evening that is more than entertaining
- it’s a ton of fun. The spotlight shines on Coffin’s
lyrics and music, with kudos going to the three actors who sparkle
in all 15 roles - what’s not to love?”
“…Here’s an offbeat show that is great fun…3
wonderful performers so versatile that they seem like an entire
troupe make FIVE COURSE LOVE into a hearty entertainment meal…the
book is hilarious and the music and lyrics add to the upbeat fun….”
“From the melodious voices cleverly intoning the exit door
and cell phone injunctions, you know the show to follow is going
to be good. And it is…Coffin's score is tuneful and his lyrics
are witty…deliciously silly and unexpectedly poignant…”
“…A burlesque quality…An almost vaudevillian skit
structure…where unfulfilled love is the main course...The
performers display exceptional vocal prowess in the diversity of
music that one finds here…”
“Nonstop silliness…for its cast of three the fifteen
parts in five different musical styles are a strut-your-stuff feast…The
riffs on the various musical styles add a special something to this
homage to the likes of Johnny Carson and Carol Burnett…”
“A compositional tour-de-force of clever writing and appealing
music…peopled with 15 memorable characters that come in dream
roles for three actors…a delicious confection…”
“Laugh-out-loud entertainment…inspired, witty music…ingenious
lyrical constructions with hysterical verbal panache…outrageously
randy humor…”
“Intelligent, laugh-out-loud comedy, irreverent and often
wildly ribald…a sweet and tasty musical confection…
engagingly clever script and songs…uproariously funny …pure
pleasure…a tart but tasty entertainment.”
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