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The Western
Stage To Open Off-Broadway Musical Phenomena
I Love You,
You’re Perfect, Now Change
The Western Stage continues its 2007 Mainstage season August 24 –
September 8th with the Off-Broadway musical phenomena I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. The production runs at
The Western Stage, Hartnell Performing Arts Center, and then moves to the
This August
the Off-Broadway sensation I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change will
celebrate its 11th anniversary running at The Westside Theatre on
The Western
Stage will continue its 2007 Mainstage season with its very own production of I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change August 24-September 8 in the Hartnell
College Performing Arts Center. The production will then enjoy an extended run
September 14-16 at the Sunset Center in Carmel, which will include a Gala
Benefit and Silent Auction on Saturday September 15th.
Its record
length run is not the only record I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
has broken. Although no official studies have been done concerning this sort of
thing, it’s a good bet this play also holds the record for most marriage
proposals made my audience members during the run of a show. Over the last
eleven years, a total of fifty three men have proposed marriage to their dates
during the Act break. Luckily, in each case, the woman accepted with the thunderous
approval of the audience.
That I Love
You, You’re Perfect, Now Change has broken these records should not really
come a surprise. It’s the perfect date show. More a musical review than a play,
the show consists of a series of vignettes about the trials and tribulations of
contemporary romance from nightmarish first dates through marriage and beyond.
With a cast of four, two women and two men, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now
Change is also a dynamic performance piece with each actor in the play
performing over forty roles apiece.
Originally
written by writer and librettist Joe DiPieto as a series of skits called Love
Lemmings, director Joel Bishoff suggested turning the piece into a musical
review and teamed DiPieto up with composer Jimmy Roberts to develop the piece
further. (For more about the development of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now
Change, please see supplemental article.)
As is now
quickly becoming an annual event, The Western Stage will be taking its August production
to the historic Sunset Center in Carmel for an extended run in September.
Patrons interested in attending The Western Stage’s annual Gala Event and
Silent Auction, which raises money for the company’s scholarship fund, should
mark Saturday, September 15th on their calendars and reserve their
seats before this event sells out.
I Love You,
You’re Perfect, Now Change
is directed by Anne Marie Hunter whose past TWS credits include Joseph and
The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Into the Woods Jr. Most
recently she choreographed Meet Me in St. Louis for The Western Stage
last season.
I Love You,
You’re Perfect, Now Change plays through September 8th at The Western Stage,
Hartnell Performing Arts Center, and then moves to the Sunset Center in Carmel
September 14-16. Performances are Fri and Sat at 8 pm and Sun at 2 pm. Tickets
for performances at both TWS and the Sunset Center can be purchased online at
westernstage.com or through the box office at (831) 375-2111. Tickets are $30
Adults, $20 Jr/Sr/Mil. Make sure to ask about the Gala Performance and Silent
Auction to benefit The Western Stage scholarship fund on Saturday September 15th.
Dan Tarker
Literary
Associate