| Call Girl the Musical | |
|---|---|
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| Music | Tracy Harvey Jack Howard |
| Lyrics | Tracy Harvey Doug MacLeod |
| Book | Tracy Harvey Doug MacLeod |
| Productions | 2009 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]
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.
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.
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