THE STORY: Three actors play fifteen different characters in five different restaurants on the hunt for one true love. The evening begins at Dean's Old-Fashioned All-American Down-Home Bar-B-Que Texas Eats, where a blind date goes charbroiled 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.

"FIVE COURSE LOVE is artfully silly and genuinely funnyhilarious and imaginative." - Associated Press. "Pleasantly fluffyfive looks at love set in five different restaurantsGregg Coffin, who wrote the music, lyrics and book, seems to have a nice ear for catchy, zippy tunesLots of laughs!" - NY Times. "Coffin's score is tuneful and his lyrics are wittydeliciously silly and unexpectedly poignant." - BackStage. "The ingredients are all therea pretty tasty experience." - NY Post. "Genuinely heartwarmingan undercurrent of unrequited love pierces the often blistering, breakneck comedy and creates moments of surprising seriousness and sentimentalitydistinctive, tuneful, and highly memorable" - Talkin' Broadway. "It's as fluffy as mousse and often just as deliciousa clever little roundelaypacked with witty lyrics and shared mayhem" - TheaterMania.com. "It's a cute, diverting, fast-paced little showalternately silly and sweet, raunchy and romanticsweetly sincere" - Broadway.com.

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Format

Libretto

Binding

Softcover

ISBN

9780822221463

Stock code

9780822221463

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