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Five Course Love

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"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.

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."

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.

I really enjoyed this recording, multiple times! the songs are entertaing, witty, and tuneful. The cast play many parts each and do a wonderful job of not sounding the same in every part. The premise is clever and I really enjoyed it and shared it with friends.
Buy it and have a blast.

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!