“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” By Thea Tagower

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”  has been extended through September 1 so there’s still plenty of time to take in this show about dating, sex, marriage, parenting – the whole shebang! Here’s a review we posted when the show first opened, a few months ago. Take a look.

I don’t know how I managed to not see “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” when it had its long and successful run in Denver a few years ago. I kept thinking I would go but time got away from me. Thankfully, the show is back and I was there for opening night.

The show covers love in all of its stages and variations with humor, music and dance and poignance I did not see coming. While the first half is all humor and fairly light (much like the early stages in romance), the second half gets real (much like marriage and parenting). Oh, there are still a lot of laughs but the tender “Shouldn’t I Be Less In Love With You” sung by a man many years into his marriage and “The Very First dating Video of Rose Ritz” after a painful divorce, left the audience in absolute silence and tissues were passed, before erupting into applause.

Robert Michael Sanders, Daniel Langhoff, Shannon Steele and Lauren Shealy played over 20 different characters in multiple vignettes – a common set up for the intimate Garner Galleria Theatre which seems to have that style show a lot.  Heather Lacy and Scott Severtson are “swings” and replace two of the actors on various nights.

I am always amazed at the energy and talent that goes into these shows. It’s exhausting just watching what’s going on, on stage and then imaging the crazy costume changes going on backstage.

Don’t be like me – go see “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” during this run, lest you miss out on this accurate and funny view into life and love.

For a unique perspective on the show, read the commentary/review of the show on the Parent Tango blog, a he said/she said perspective:  http://colorado.parenthood.com/parenttango.php