I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change |
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Original cast recording
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Music | Jimmy Roberts |
Book | Joe DiPietro |
Productions | 1996 Off Broadway 1999 Bromley and London 1999 Barcelona 2000 Madrid 2003 Milan 2004 Buenos Aires 2005 London 2005 Madrid 2007 Beijing 2007 Taipei 2010 Ljubljana 2011 Mexico City 2011 Oslo 2011 Moscow 2011 Buenos Aires Revival 2012 Milan 2013 Barcelona 2013 Istanbul 2014 Milan 2014 Barcelona 2015 Norwich 2015 London 2016 Helsinki 2016 Theatre on the Bay, Cape Town 2016 Pieter Toerien Montecasino, Johannesburg |
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts. It is the second-longest running Off Broadway musical. The musical was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off-Broadway musical in 1997.
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.
It was first produced in the town where playwright Joe DiPietro was born, Teaneck, NJ. This premier ran Feb 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 Fairlegh Dickinson University. Teaneck, NJ. Directed by Joel Bischoff, the cast included Robert Roznowski, Robert Michael and Melissa Weil.
The musical was first produced in the UK at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, followed by a short season in the West End Comedy 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. and by Maple Giant at the Bridewell Theatre in 2011. 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.