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''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.〔Gans, Andrew. ("I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Ends NYC Run After More Than a Decade July 27"' ). Playbill.com, July 27, 2008〕 The musical was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award 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, 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.〔("Archive. ''I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change'' at the Comedy Theatre" ) albemarle-london.com, accessed June 17, 2014〕 It was revived in London at the Jermyn Street Theatre, running from March 1, 2005 to March 26, presented by Popular Productions Ltd.〔Gans, Andrew. (" ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'' Is London-Bound" ) playbill.com, January 31, 2005〕 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. It has been translated into at least 17 languages, including Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Finnish, Mandarin, Norwegian, French and Turkish. It has played sit-down productions in Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, London, Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Barcelona, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Budapest, Sydney, Prague, Bratislava, Seoul, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Dublin, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo, Manila, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg and Christchurch.〔Hernandez, Ernio.("Off-Broadway's 'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change' Hits 4,000 March 14" ) playbill.com, March 7, 2006〕 In 2008, Kookaburra: The National Musical Theatre Company toured NSW Australia with 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. It's near sold-out season scheduled for Sydney in April 2009 was cancelled 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. It starred Julie Atherton Simon Lipkin Gina Beck and Samuel Holmes 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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