Eating Raoul is a musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 with music by Jed Feuer, lyrics by Boyd Graham, and a book by Paul Bartel

Paul Bartel

Paul Bartel was an American actor, writer and director. Bartel was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy Eating Raoul, which he wrote, starred in and directed.-Life and career:...

 and Richard Blackburn. It is based on the 1982 movie of the same name

Eating Raoul

Eating Raoul is a 1982 black comedy about a married couple living in Hollywood who resort to killing swingers for their money. It was directed by Paul Bartel and written by Bartel and Richard Blackburn...

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The story focuses on Mary and Paul Bland, a couple of "squares", in the late 1960s, who want to raise money to open a restaurant. They decide to kill swingers for profit by hitting them on the head with a frying pan. They become involved with a partner, Raoul, their swarthy, sexy janitor, who helps them to dispose of the bodies. However, they soon feel trapped by Raoul and dispatch him too; he becomes the main course.

The musical opened Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...

 at the Union Square Theatre

Union Square Theatre

Union Square Theater is an Off-Broadway theatre, owned by Reading International, who also owns Reading Entertainment.- Productions :*Visiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron*The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project...

 on May 13, 1992, starring Courtenay Collins, Eddie Korbich

Eddie Korbich

Eddie Korbich is an actor, singer, dancer. He was born in Washington, D.C. but grew up in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.-1980s:He graduated from the Boston Conservatory with a B.F.A...

 and Adrian Zmed. It was directed by Toni Kortite and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett

Lynne Taylor-Corbett

Lynne Taylor-Corbett is a choreographer, director, lyricist, and composer. She was born in Denver, Colorado.She works in theatre and film, and also choreographs for dance companies, both ballet and modern, and is the principal guest choreographer for Carolina Ballet...

. Since then it has received numerous regional productions.

Roles and original cast

• Paul Bland – Eddie Korbich
  Eddie Korbich
  Eddie Korbich is an actor, singer, dancer. He was born in Washington, D.C. but grew up in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.-1980s:He graduated from the Boston Conservatory with a B.F.A...
  
  
• Mary Bland – Courtenay Collins
• Raoul – Adrian Zmed
• Dr. Doberman; Ginger – M. W. Reid
• Inez; Cop – Lovette George
• Donna the Dominatrix; Yolanda – Cindy Benson
• Mr. Leech; Howard; Bobby – David Masenheimer
• Mr. Kray; James; Junior – Jonathan Brody
• Gladys – Susan Wood

Musical numbers

• Meet the Blands
• A Small Restaurant
• La La Land
• Swing, Swing, Swing
• Happy Birthday Harry
• You Gotta Take Pains
• A Thought Occurs
• Victim Update
• Sexperts
• Basketball
• Empty Bed
• Tool For You
• Think About Tomorrow
• Eating Raoul
• Momma Said
• Lovers In Love
• Mary
• Hot Monkey Love
• One Last Bop
• Finale

External links

• Script to Eating Raoul
• Review in The New York Times
  The New York Times
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• Original cast album