Everything you’ve secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives, and in-laws, but were afraid to admit, is said to be contained in the touring musical comedy “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” taking the stage of the Northshore Performing Arts Center Saturday, Feb. 28.
The jungle of the modern-day mating game is examined in “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” with four actors playing over 40 roles in a collection of scenes and songs scaling the dizzying spectrum of male/female relationships, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” seeks to reveal the difficulties and joys of connecting with another person, no matter what age.
With lyrics by Joe DiPietro (“Memphis”) and music by Jimmy Roberts, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” opened at the Westside Theatre in New York on Aug. 1, 1996, following highly acclaimed engagements at New Haven’s prestigious Long Wharf Theatre, and the American Stage Company in New Jersey, where the production set a new box office record. On Jan. 7, 2001, with performance 1,848, the New York production became Off-Broadway’s longest-running musical revue, breaking the long-standing record established by “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.”
The musical has gone on to play more than 4,500 performances, surpassing the Broadway runs of such musicals as “My Fair Lady,” “Annie,” “Oklahoma!,” “Grease,” “Man of La Mancha,” “42nd Street,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “The Producers,” and “Hello, Dolly!”
Additional productions of the musical have been mounted in more than 400 cities worldwide including 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, and Taipei.
Recommended for mature audiences, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” is also said to be the most proposal-friendly show in town. Fifty-seven times, a young man has taken the stage to make a surprise proposal to his sweetheart. In all cases, the brides-to-be happily accepted.
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