I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts. It is the second-longest running Off Broadway musical. [1] The musical was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off-Broadway musical in 1997.

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Production history

The musical premiered at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre, New York City, on August 1, 1996 and closed on July 27, 2008, after 5,003 performances. Directed by Joel Bishoff, the cast featured Jordan Leeds, Robert Roznowski, Jennifer Simard, and Melissa Weil.

First produced in the UK at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, followed by a short season in the West End Comedy Theatre in 1999, it was revived in London at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2005, presented by Popular Productions Ltd. A Mandarin Chinese version debuted in Beijing, China, on June 20, 2007, and it had been also reproduced by LANCreators, Taiwan's only group producing Broadway musicals, and performed, in English, at the Crown Theatre, Taipei, from November 3, 2007.

It has been translated into 13 languages including Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Finnish and Mandarin.

It has played sit-down productions in Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, London, Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Sydney, Prague, Seoul, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Dublin, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo, Manila, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg and Christchurch.

Synopsis

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is presented in the form of a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. The play's tagline is "Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit."With few exceptions, the scenes stand independent of the others, but progress in a fashion designed to suggest an overall arc to relationships throughout the course of one's life. A first date, for example, comes before scenes dealing with marriage, and scenes dealing with marriage come before those dealing with child rearing. Despite the large number of characters, the show is typically done with a comparatively small cast: the original Off-Broadway production uses a cast of four.

The current licensed version available for production includes a new song in Act I, Scene 2. The song "We Had It All" was added during the Off-Broadway run and was part of several tours of the show.

;Act 1 Scene 1: "Prologue"

"Prologue"

"Cantata for a First Date"

Scene 2: "Not Tonight, I'm Busy, Busy, Busy"

"We Had it All"

Scene 3: "A Stud and a Babe"

"A Stud and a Babe"

Scene 4: "Men Who Talk and the Women Who Pretend They're Listening"

"Single Man Drought"

"Why? 'Cause I'm a Guy"

Scene 5: "Tear Jerk"

"Tear Jerk"

Scene 6: "The Lasagna Incident"

"I Will Be Loved Tonight"

Scene 7: "And Now the Parents"

"Hey There, Single Gal/Guy"

Scene 8: "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
Scene 9: "I'll Call You Soon (Yeah, Right)"

"He Called Me"

Scene 10: "Scared Straight" Scene 11: (untitled)

"Cantata Reprise #1"

"Wedding Vows"

;Act 2 Scene 1: (untitled)

"Cantata Reprise #2"

"Always a Bridesmaid"

Scene 2: "Whatever Happened to Baby's Parents?"

"The Baby Song"

Scene 3: "Sex and the Married Couple"

"Marriage Tango"

Scene 4: "The Family that Drives Together..."

"On the Highway of Love"

Scene 5: "Waiting"

"Waiting Trio"

Scene 6: (untitled)

"Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You?"

Scene 7: "The Very First Dating Video of Rose Ritz"
Scene 8: "Funerals are for Dating"

"I Can Live With That"

Scene 9: "Epilogue"

"Epilogue"

"I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"

References

1. Gans, Andrew"I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Ends NYC Run After More Than a Decade July 27"'playbill.com, July 27, 2008