Dean's Old-Fashioned All-American Down Home Bar-B-Que Texas Eats
Jumpin' The Gun
I Loved You When I Thought Your Name Was Ken
Morning Light
If Nicky Knew
Give Me This Night
Nicky Knows
Shelter-Lied
"No" Is A Word I Don't Fear
Der Bumsen-Kratzentanz
Risk Love
Gretchen's Lament
The Ballad of Guillermo
Come Be My Love
Pick Me
The Blue Flame
True Love At The Star-Lite Tonight
It's A Mystery
Medley
Love Looking Back At Me
Five Course Love tells the story of five entangled encounters with love in five different restaurants. Three actors play fifteen different characters, all on the hunt for one true Love. The evening begins at Dean s Old-Fas... more »hioned 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 sexy German siren, 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.
The musical styles reflect the cuisine of the eateries: Country & Western, Italian, German cabaret, Mexican and 50 s Doo Wop. Five Course Love played at the Minetta Lane Theatre in 2005. The cast album features the original off-Broadway cast. Heather Ayers as Barbie, Sofia, Gretchen, Rosalinda and Kitty; John Bolton as Matt, Gino, Klaus, Guillermo and Clutch; and Jeff Gurner as Dean, Carlo, Heimlich, Ernesto and Pops.« less
Five Course Love tells the story of five entangled encounters with love in five different restaurants. Three actors play fifteen different characters, all 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 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 sexy German siren, 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.
The musical styles reflect the cuisine of the eateries: Country & Western, Italian, German cabaret, Mexican and 50 s Doo Wop. Five Course Love played at the Minetta Lane Theatre in 2005. The cast album features the original off-Broadway cast. Heather Ayers as Barbie, Sofia, Gretchen, Rosalinda and Kitty; John Bolton as Matt, Gino, Klaus, Guillermo and Clutch; and Jeff Gurner as Dean, Carlo, Heimlich, Ernesto and Pops.
CD Reviews
5 Course Love
Richard Osborn | San Francisco, California | 11/07/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This cast recording is infectiously fun. Composer Coffin's music playfully uses familiar genres to explore the humor in romantic love. The cast recording features strong voices and an understandable story progression, so you don't need to have seen the show to appreciate it. My favorites are "Jumping the Gun" and "Love Looking Back at Me.""
Real Musical Comedy
J. Deer | Dayton, OH | 11/27/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
""Five Course Love" is that all too rare commodity, a genuinely funny musical. This album presents virtually the entirety of the five short mini-musicals that comprise Five Course Love. It is so varied in musical styles that I found myself eager to hear the next song and enter the next of composer/lyricist/librettist Gregg Coffin's five distinctly different musical worlds. And there's plenty satisfaction in the way he effortlessly satisfies every expectation for the "Blue Angel" tinged cabaret world, a country western barbecue romance, or each of the other culinary romantic encounters. And he finishes each with a perfect plot twist. Listen as Coffin ties the whole thing together at the end in the most unexpected and unexpectedly touching way. For a show that could just be frivolity (and there's plenty of the best of that), Five Course Love also has heart. And it is chock-a-block with fun, hummable and infectious songs. I work with singing actors on audition material all the time, and I find myself recommending this show to them for great comic audition songs. If you like Musical: The Musical of Musicals, Forbidden Broadway, or I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, this show will become an instant favorite. It is for me."
Optimistic madness on a mad thing called love
Pau Bielsa | Tarragona, Spain | 05/07/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In this cd there's no pause and time for relax, it is a mad point of view on a mad thing called love and human relations; the prototype in love is: for girls bipolar, and, for boys psychotic. All in this item is optimistic at the point that the excitation listening to it increases to heaven. The best Broadway is today's Broadway, no doubt."
HILARIOUS
Stephen___ | 03/11/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I am a big fan of listening to musicals before I see them live. (I still haven't seen this one live... but I wish I could find a production of it somewhere.) The lyrics and stories told in this show are hilarious. It provides every ounce of entertainment that it claims to offer. Definitely worth the buy. Would love to be in a production of it if the rights were available or to see one would be awesome too!"
Track Listings (23) - Disc #1