Five Course Love-Musical Hit Served in Coral Gables

Off Broadway Musical Hit
Five Course Love
Opens at the Miracle Theatre

Coral Gables, FL (April 17, 2006) – The recent Off-Broadway hit musical Five Course Love is 2 cups comedy, 1-cup melody, and heaping portions of delicious mouth-watering love. Set in five different restaurants three actors get the chance of a lifetime to play fifteen  characters, each character as silly and unique as the last. Their amorous combinations are served up with spicy seasonings and sassy trimmings. It is truly a comedy of stereotypes, from the Barbie girl to the Italian machismo to a country bumpkin and his Texas style barbecue. Gregg Coffin's music runs from country and western to Berlin cabaret to 1950's doo-wop to Italian opera with each vignette-taking place in a different restaurant.

Janet Dacal (Barbie/Sofia/Gretchen/Rosalina/Kitty) returns to Actors' Playhouse from her recent role as Rhonda in the Beach Boys Broadway musical, Good Vibrations. Janet also performed in Actors' Playhouse productions of 4 Guys Named Jose and Una Mujer Named Maria, and Annie. Oscar Cheda (Dean/Carlo/Heimlich/Ernesto/Pops) starred in the Actors' Playhouse productions of Fiddler on the Roof and Shear Madness. Christopher A. Kent (Matt/Gino/Klaus/Guillermo/Clutch) multiple Carbonell Award nominee, recently performed in Actors' production of Grease and in Neil Sedaka's new musical, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.

The creative team of Five Course Love is comprised of multiple Carbonell nominees and winners and include choreographer Barbara Flaten, set designer M. P. Amico, costume designer Mary Lynn Izzo, lighting designer, Patrick Tennent, and sound designer, Nate Rausch. Carbonell Nominee Kevin Wallace will join the Actors' Playhouse theatre team as Musical Director.
 
Five Course Love previews May 10 & 11. Gala Opening Night will be May 12 and plays through June 4, 2006. Five Course Love will have Wednesday through Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. An additional Wednesday matinee performance will be on June 17th at 2 p.m. Tickets are $30 for previews, $37.50 for weeknights and matinees, and $45 for Friday and Saturday evenings. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain, with identification. All discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday performances and Sunday matinees. Group rates are available for 15 or more, and theatre/dinning packages are available with Coral Gables' select restaurants through our group sales department. Tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293, Ticketmaster at 305-358-5885, or on line at www.actorsplayhouse.org.


A special Theatre/Dinner package for show and a three course menu is available through the box office at  $50 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday evenings with the following participating restaurants: Ana Capri, Cacao, Gables Diner, JohnMartins, Ortanique, Peppy's, St. Michelle, and Jake's Bar & Grill.
South Florida's award-winning musical powerhouse recently reaped seven Carbonell Awards for artistic excellence at the 30th annual Carbonell ceremony, five for Aida including Best Production of a Musical, and two for Disney's' Beauty and the Beast. Actors' Playhouse ends its Best of Broadway 2005-2006 season, with the comedy The Mystery of Irma Vep, July 12- September 3, 2006. The 2006-2007 season at the Miracle Theatre includes MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS, a delightful play that takes audiences into the inner sanctum of 1939 Hollywood in a fun, fast-paced South Florida Premiere comedy  (October 11-November 12, 2006), the South Florida premiere of Irving Berlin's White Christmas (November 15-December 31, 2006), the current Off-Broadway musical sensation, I Love You Because (January 17-February 11, 2007), Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles (March 7-April 8, 2007), the world premiere play written by Miami playwright Susan Westfall, The Boy From Russia (May 9-June 3, 2007), and Tom Leherer's satirical comedy musical review Tom Foolery (July 11-September 2, 2007).

Subscribers see it all, with premium seating and best savings. Season subscriptions for the 2006-2007 season are on sale now, with prices ranging from  $150 for preview performances, $203 for Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday matinees, $240 for Friday and Saturday evenings, and $255 for VIP Flexible/Anytime tickets for best seats in any performance. Opening night tickets, including a gala party and Bacardi bar, are $390. Miracle Maker donor subscriptions, including two tickets to opening nights, donor acknowledgement, and two tickets to the annual Reach for the Stars Gala Auction 2007 are $1250. Subscriptions for children 18 years and younger with a full paid adult subscription, and college students, are $100 (restrictions apply). Group rates are available for fifteen people or more through the group sales department. Actors' Playhouse subscribers receive guaranteed best seating and pricing, lost ticket insurance, generous membership benefits to Coral Gables' finest restaurants and establishments, discounts off single tickets, among other benefits.
  
Actors' Playhouse, the resident theatre company and managing agent of the Miracle Theatre, has an agreement with Actor's Equity Association, the union of professional actors, New York. Under the leadership of executive producing director Barbara S. Stein and artistic Director David Arisco, Actors' Playhouse is one of eight major Florida professional theatre companies, and one of twenty major cultural institutions in Miami Dade County. In addition to its Mainstage season, Actors' Playhouse produces a year-round season of Musical Theatre for Young Audiences, a National Children's Theatre Festival, and a Theatre Conservatory and Summer Camp Program.
 
For further information call 305-444-9293 or visit the theatre's website at www.actorsplayhouse.org . 

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