I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Written by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts

ARCHIVE: February 20-24, 2008

A musical comedy about everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.

“It’s ‘Seinfeld’ set to music!”—Star-Ledger

The road to coupledom and all of its trials and tribulations are explored in this musical celebration of the modern-day mating game.

The most interesting part of "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is how, depending on your age, you respond to what's on stage.—Jon Busdeker, The Huntsville Times

With four actors playing over forty roles in a collection of scenes and songs scaling the dizzying spectrum of male/female relationships, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change reveals the difficulties and joys of connecting with another person, no matter what age.

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From Joe DiPietro, Co-author

Obviously, you never expect a show to run this long—not in your wildest dreams. You think, "If it's a hit, it's gonna run a couple of years and I'll be thrilled." [I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE is now in its 11th year, Off- Broadway!] The show has had about 60 or 70 regional productions, so the title is really out there, and now we're getting people who have seen it in their town and want to see the New York original. It even draws foreign tourists who don't seem to speak English—which I think is amazing, because the show is really about the text. I mean, it doesn't have special effects or anything like that.

When we were bringing the show in, a lot of people said, "That title doesn't work. It's too long." Basically, we used it because we never came up with a better one. But now I think the title really attracts people; it definitely captures something about relationships, straight or gay. "I love you, you're perfect. Now, let's just change this one little thing about you..." –Theatermania Interview

There have been many audience marriage proposals during the run of this show. Fifty-eight young men have taken the stage to make a surprise proposal to his sweetheart. In all cases, the brides-to-be happily accepted as the audience roared with approval.

Fall in love with Off-Broadway's long-running hit I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!

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REVIEW by Jon Busdeker,
The Huntsville Times

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A Brief History

Written by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is presently off-Broadway's longest-running musical, second only to The Fantasticks. It opened at the Westside Theatre in New York on August 1, 1996. Critics and audiences cheered the debut of this new musical revue, which Gannett Newspapers hailed as “Hilarious! The most entertaining show on or off Broadway!”. The New York production marked its 1000th performance on December 26, 1998 and is still packing them in nightly. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change has also enjoyed record breaking runs in Los Angeles, Toronto, Detroit, Miami and London.