Musical’s new view on love songs

No Love Songs is a powerful and uplifting modern love story featuring songs by The View lead singer Kyle Falconer and starring Keegan Joyce and Lucy Maunder.

The just-announced new musical will tour Australia this year, with performances starting in March and including a stop in Geelong.

No Love Songs brings alive the joys and struggles of Jessie (Joyce) and Lana (Maunder) as they navigate the challenges of their new lives as parents.

Funny, hard-hitting and powerful, No Love Songs is authentic and inspired by the real-life experiences of Falconer and his partner Laura Wilde.

Songs featured in No Love Songs are taken from Falconer’s second solo album, No Love Songs for Laura, and reimagined for the musical stage.

New parents Jessie and Lana are both madly in love until singer-songwriter Jessie gets his big break in America, leaving Lana isolated back at home with their newborn baby, leading to an emotional roller-coaster of turmoil, heart-felt emotions and tears. Will the sparks that were there yesterday get them through tomorrow?

Produced by Rodney Rigby for Newtheatricals (Water For Elephants on Broadway, Come From Away, Gaslight, Jersey Boys, Good Night, Oscar on Broadway), No Love Songs completed a sell-out season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in London and just completed its American premiere ahead of its New York opening in March 2025, following the Australian premiere.

“No Love Songs is a real love story with passion and hopes and dreams and mistakes and regrets and restarts,” producer Rodney Rigby said.

“It’s very much about the struggle of young parents plus the anguish of being apart from loved ones and difficulty of coping with day-to-day obligations, but ultimately offers hopes and happiness.

“In addition to being a new musical for Australian audiences, we are also delighted that No Love Songs will be the first musical to be staged at the new Foundry Theatre at the Lyric Theatre, ahead of its national tour.”

Joyce is perhaps best-known for his starring role as Finnegan “Fuzz” Greene, the son of Richard Roxburgh’s character, in the multi-award winning highly-acclaimed ABC TV series Rake, as well as his featured role in ABC TV’s Please Like Me.

He began his career in Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Oliver!

Other leading roles include Andrej in the Australian season of the musical Once, Hour Of The Wolf and Nosferatu (Malthouse), Rules For Living (Sydney Theatre Company), Vivid White (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Titanic: A New Musical.

Maunder has cemented her reputation as one of Australia’s leading theatre artists with multiple award nominations and a variety of starring roles in productions that have toured both nationally and internationally. Highlights include Roxie Hart in the recent Australian tour of Chicago (Crossroads Live), Winifred Banks in the Australian tour of Mary Poppins (Michael Cassel Group/Disney/Cameron Mackintosh), Cynthia Weil in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Michael Cassel Group), and Miss Honey in Matilda: The Musical (Louise Withers and Associates/Royal Shakespeare Company).

No Love Songs will be performed at Geelong Arts Centre’s Story House from August 27 to August 31.

For more information, head to nolovesongs.com.au