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Product Description:
Now in stock! An exciting new Australian musical from the composers of The Hatpin - LoveBites is a madcap evening about loving, leaving and leaping into the joyful (or not-so-joyful) unknown.
Music by Peter Rutherford and lyrics by James Millar.
Starring Amelia Cormack (Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert), David Harris (Miss Saigon, The Full Monty, Gutenberg!), James Millar (Gutenberg!, Jerry Springer the Opera, Company) and Sophia Ragavelas (Les Miserables, Mamma Mia, The Lion King).
An absent-minded young-lady leaves behind more than she intended after a one night stand. An A-List celebrity joins the Mile High Club with a stewardess. A passive aggressive panics about the romantic unknown as she dangles precariously from a rock-face. A Book Group with only two members develops into something much greater than an innocent discussion about George Orwell's "1984" and a florist...is sent flowers. These and other stories make up "LoveBites"- a collection of vignettes about falling in love...and what happens after the confetti settles. Catching one-half of each couple in the instant that love strikes and then hearing from their other-half about how it ended up, Lovebites is a mad-capped evening about loving, leaving and leaping into the joyful (or not-so-joyful) unknown.
"James Millar is seriously talented. Not yet 30, he's written, with composer Peter Rutherford, songs about love that are fresh, literate, humane and insightful. The most trampled-over subject in musical theatre has come up sparkling... LoveBites is a very significant achievement." - Deborah Jones, The Australian
"Millar's lyrics are beautifully observed, insightful and truthful, discovering all the grand passion, joy, humour and heartbreak in ordinary situations...LoveBites has you laughing one minute and wiping away a tear the next...surely Rutherford and Millar are names to watch in Australian musical theatre" - Jo Litson, The Sunday Telegraph
"This simply staged piece of theatre pop consistently hits the sweet spot...The songs are fresh and witty and....there's plenty of mischievous humour...with it's appealingly assured cast...LoveBites seduces with ease" - Jason Blake, The Sun-Herald
"The songs and characters of Love Bites follow the mixed, often hilarious and occasionally sad fortunes of various permutations of human relationships. For any of us (that means all of us) with a memory of a fabulous, infuriating, excruciating, embarrassing, beautiful or mourned beginning and end of a relationship, there’s an echo of those experiences in LoveBites. The authenticity in the songs and characters provoke hoots of laughter and groans of recognition.. LoveBites is an exhilarating night out that will have you laughing, snuffling into your hankie, wriggling with recollections of your own past faux pas and finally celebrating the talent and exuberance of the show’s cast and creative's. More like this please" - Diana Simmonds, stagenoise.com
2 CD set includes 24 page full-colour booklet with production photos and complete lyrics.
Tracks:
CD 1:ACT ONE
1. Falling in Love
2. Georgina & Peter: A Rock
3. Ray & Denise: The Captain's Turned Off The Fasten Seatbelt Sign
4. Madeleine & Poppy: A Single Poppy
5. Elliot & Grace: Impossibility
6. James & Daniel: Book Group, 1984
7. Louise & Bob: If My Name Was Harvey
8. Kevin & Annie: A Plastic Bag (An Urban Legend)
9. Falling in Love 2
CD 2:ACT TWO
10. Falling in Love 3
11. Nothing Is Where Something Was
12. Georgina & Peter: A Hard Place
13. Ray & Denise: Head In The Clouds
14. Madeleine & Poppy: Give It To The Breeze
15. Elliot & Grace: Three Times
16. James & Daniel: Setting The Date
17. Louise & Bob: Bob & Louise
18. Kevin & Annie: When You See Someone's Sh*t
19. Love, Bring Me Some Water
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LoveBites - 2009 Original Australian Cast (2CD)