musical
Musical is the adjective of music.
Musical may also refer to:
* Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance
* Musical film
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comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro, and music by Jimmy Roberts. It is the second-longest running
Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ...
Outer Critics Circle Award
The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They are presented by the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of New York theater writers for out-of-town news ...
as Outstanding Off-Broadway musical in 1997.
Production history
The musical premiered Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre 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." ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'' Synopsis, Musical Numbers" guidetomusicaltheatre.com, accessed June 17, 2014
It was first produced in the town where playwright Joe DiPietro was born, Teaneck, New Jersey. This production ran from February 24 to March 12, 1995, at the American Stage Company Theater (Artistic Director James Vagias and Managing Director Glenn Cherrits), a professional theatre in residence on the campus of
Fairleigh Dickinson University
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, Teaneck, NJ. Directed by Joel Bishoff, the cast included Robert Roznowski, Robert Michael and Melissa Weil.
The musical was first produced in the UK at the Churchill Theatre,
Bromley
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Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, charte ...
, followed by a short season in the West EndComedy Theatre from July 28, 1999 to September 25, 1999. Directed by Joel Bishoff, the cast featured Clive Carter, Shona Lindsay, Gillian Kirkpatrick, and Russell Wilcox. It was revived in London at the Jermyn Street Theatre, running from March 1, 2005 to March 26, presented by Popular Productions Ltd. This production then opened in Dubai in 2006 and by Maple Giant at the Bridewell Theatre in 2011. The first
Cantonese
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Chinese version debuted in
Hong Kong
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on October 28, 2005, and was produced by Wind Mill Grass Theatre. Another
Mandarin
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Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
Chinese version was produced in
Beijing
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, China, on June 20, 2007, and it had also been reproduced by LANCreators,
Taiwan
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's only group producing Broadway musicals and performed, in English, at the Crown Theatre,
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It has been translated into at least 17 languages, including Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Finnish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, French, Turkish and Romanian.
It has played sit-down productions in Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, London, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Barcelona, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Budapest, Sydney, Prague, Bratislava, Seoul, Warsaw, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Dublin, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo, Manila, Wiesbaden, Munich, Heidelberg and Christchurch.
In 2008, Kookaburra: The National Musical Theatre Company toured NSW Australia with a version of the production with Australian accents and references. This production was directed by Darren Yap and starred Hayden Tee, Katrina Retallick, Marika Aubrey, and Anthony Harkin. Its nearly sold-out season scheduled for Sydney in April 2009 was canceled after the sudden collapse of Kookaburra.
In 2015, ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'' ran in London in the small studio space named Above The Arts in London's West End in
Leicester Square
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Simon Lipkin
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, Gina Beck and Samuel Holmes.
In 2017, there was a short run at
George Street Playhouse
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at their interim theater in
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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During 2024, a new production was produced by the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre; it ran at the theatre for eight performances from 16-20 July before moving to the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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for the summer, from 2-24 August 2024. https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/Wolverhampton-Grand-Theatre-Goes-To-Edinburgh-Fringe-With-I-LOVE-YOU-YOURE-PERFECT-NOW-CHANGE-20240320
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 one's life. A first date, for example, comes before scenes dealing with marriage, and scenes dealing with marriage come before those dealing with childbearing. 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.
Musical numbers
Source: guidetomusicaltheatre.com
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.