I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Infobox Musical
name= I Love You, You're Perfect,
Now Change
subtitle=


caption=Original cast recording
music=Jimmy Roberts
lyrics=
book=Joe DiPietro
basis=
productions= 1996 Off-Broadway
1999,Bromley and London, 2005 London
2007 Beijing
2007 Taipei
awards=

"I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is a comedic musical with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts. Of the shows curently (2008) open off-Broadway, it is the longest-running. It premiered in 1996 at New York City's Westside Theatre, where it has been running for twelve years. 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.

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."

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 and Heidelberg.

The show opened in New York City on August 1, 1996, and closed on July 27, 2008, after 5,003 performances.

The closing cast members were: Anne Bobby, Christy Faber, Jonathan Rayson, Frank Vlastnik, Will Erat and Karyn Quackenbush.

ynopsis

"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. 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.

A complete list of scenes and their accompanying musical numbers, as they appear in the libretto published by Rogers and Hammerstein Theatricals, follows:

Act 1

Scene 1: "Prologue": "Prologue": "Cantata for a First Date"Scene 2: "Not Tonight, I'm Busy, Busy, Busy"
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"

External links

* [http://www.loveperfectchange.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.loveperfectchange.co.uk/ Official London Website]
* [http://www.popularproductions.com/ Popular Productions Ltd Website]
* [http://english.cri.cn/4026/2007/06/21/[e-mail] Coverage of China version]
* [http://www.lancreators.com/iloveyou/ Official Taipei Website]
* Citation
last = DiPietro
first = Joe
date = 1996
place = New York
Publisher = Rogers and Hammerstein
url = http://www.rnh.com/theatricals/show.php?show_id=90