Five Course Love
Musical - book music and lyrics by Gregg Coffin
Minetta Lane Theatre, Off Broadway. Opened 16th October, 2005: closed 31st December, 2005 (70 perfs)
Synopsis
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.
Musical Numbers
- Curtain Speech Five Course Love Band
- Overture Five Course Love Band
- A Very Single Man
- 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