Call Girl the Musical

Call Girl the Musical
MusicTracy Harvey
Jack Howard
LyricsTracy Harvey
Doug MacLeod
BookTracy Harvey
Doug MacLeod
Productions2009 Melbourne

Call Girl the Musical is a musical conceived by Australian TV comedian and writer Tracy Harvey and Doug MacLeod, with musical arrangements from Jack Howard and direction from Bryce Ives.[1]

Background

In 2004, Tracy Harvey started writing a sitcom about a customer contact centre. Script editor Doug MacLeod suggested that the material would make a good musical.[2]

The show had a preview season in October 2008 at the Phoenix Theatre in Elwood directed by Bryce Ives and choreographed by Dave Harford.[3][4] The preview season starred Alan Fletcher from the Australian TV soap opera Neighbours, with cameo (voice) appearances from Steve Vizard and Australian TV legend Bert Newton.[5]

After the preview season, the show was developed and a new season began in April 2009 at Chapel off Chapel, South Yarra.[6] The 2009 season again featured Tracy Harvey as Jean Brown, with Jeremy Kewley replacing Alan Fletcher as male lead Frank McGee, and featured new voice-overs from Derek Guille.

Synopsis

It is a musical comedy set in a telephone call centre, following Jean Brown on her first day at work at "We Care Marketing", a dubious customer contact centre populated by flawed characters - including a money hungry man-eater, a wheeler dealer salesman, a vacuous brat and a desperate-to-prove-himself marketing executive with zero training. Despite her heartfelt reluctance to fleece customers and her sabotage from entrenched employees, Jean puts her best foot forward.

References

  1. ^ Fiona Scott-Norman (2008-10-24). "Taking Time to answer the call". Melbourne: The Age newspaper. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
  2. ^ Diary of a Call Girl: Tracy Harvey
  3. ^ "Web Wombat Review: Call Girl the Musical".
  4. ^ "Dialing up memories to sing about in Elwood". Port Phillip Leader newspaper. 2008-10-28. Archived from the original on 2009-10-02. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
  5. ^ "Vizard back with role in Musical". Herald Sun. 2008-08-24. Archived from the original on September 15, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
  6. ^ "Call Girl the Musical Website". Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2009-04-09.