Gaslight Theatre presents I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change June 4-19
Recommended for Mature Audiences Only
Release Date: 5/13/2004. Expired: 6/19/2004
Off-Broadway’s longest running musical revue comes to the Gaslight Dinner Theatre at The Renaissance Center in Dickson June 4-19.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is now in its eighth season at the Westside Theatre in New York with more than 3,000 performances, surpassing the Broadway runs of classics such as My Fair Lady, Annie, South Pacific, Oklahoma! and Hello, Dolly.
The Gaslight Dinner Theatre presents I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Fridays and Saturdays, June 4-19. Evening performances begin at 6:30 p.m. with a buffet dinner and Senior Matinees are at noon on Fridays. Tickets for the evening performances are $27 per person while Senior Matinees for people 55 and older are $17. Tickets include meal, dessert and the performance.
Written by playwright/lyricist Joe DiPietro and composer Jimmy Roberts, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a celebration of the modern-day suburban mating game. It takes on the truths and myths behind the contemporary conundrum known as “the relationship.”
Act I explores the journey from dating and waiting to love and marriage while Act II reveals the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family car and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set.
“This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their faces at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask, ‘Say, what are you doing Saturday night?’,” said Pacer Harp, managing director of the Gaslight Dinner Theatre.
Four actors portray more than 60 roles in a collection of vignettes and songs covering the spectrum of male/female relationships, addressing the difficulties and joys of connecting with another person, no matter what age. It is a musical ride through dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws.
The Renaissance Center’s production will feature Harp, Lyn Hays, Ryan Hunt and Tawny Frey and will be directed by Hal Partlow.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change has been staged in more than 150 cities around the world and has played to more than 650,000 just in New York since opening at the Westside Theatre July 15, 1996. That eight-year run has included more than 40 marriage proposals made by members of the audience, every one of them being accepted.
DiPietro is also the author of the plays Over the River and Through the Woods, The Kiss at City Hall, The Virgin Weeps and the comic thriller The Art of Murder, winner of the 2000 Edgar Award. His latest work is the off-Broadway musical The Thing About Men and current projects include the book and lyrics for the rock and roll musical Memphis and the book for the Broadway-bound musical All Shook Up, an original musical comedy featuring the songs of Elvis Presley.
He has received the William Inge Theater Festival New Voice in American Theater Award and has won the O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference MacArthur Award for comic writing.
In 1996, the Newark Star Ledger described I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change as “Seinfeld set to pop music.” Newsday said, “If this show were a blind date, you’d feel relieved, grateful and pleasantly surprised.” “So smartly conceived... catchy tunes and witty lyrics,” commented Variety.
Tickets for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change go on sale May 4. For information on this and other productions in the Gaslight Dinner Theatre, call (615)740-5600. To make reservations, call (615)740-5570.
The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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