You're Perfect, Now Change Proves to be Suprisingly Real
Cip Mills
Issue date: 4/10/06 Section: Entertainment
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Staff Writer
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, written by Joe DiPietro with music by Jimmy Roberts, was performed by the Clarkson Theatre Company (CTC) over the weekend. The show was broken down into twenty different separate skits that dealt with the multitude of issues that arise in the various levels of relationships. With a cast of eight: Katie Buckley, Joe Contini, Robert Grogan, Mathew Kinnier, Kaitlin Monte, Alicen Morley, Mathew Stedner, Meghann Strain, and a crew of sixteen: Tony Tambasco, Dan Galliher, Krista Thomson, Tosca Chirco, Nicholas McGraw, Trent McCarthy, Mitchel Plamondon, Steve Potvin, Joe Potvin, Melissa Manchester, Jillian Huff, Justin Gonyea, Kyleigh Gloska, Bill Bushey, John Pelletier, and Lindsey Peculis, CTC has once again showcased their talents in a witty yet insightful musical.
One of the show's central themes was based off the line "Different partner, same dance." Using eight people to play sixty-one different characters would show that throughout the many stages of relationships, each situation tends to be the same for everybody, whether it is the first date or being married for thirty years.
The Prologue had the entire cast wearing black robes as they walked onstage to sing Cantata for a First Date. They would suddenly shed their robes and sing through getting changed and ready for a first date. They showed the real humor of a first date when they broke into a kick-line singing "I've got baggage, emotional baggage."
"Not Tonight, I'm Busy, Busy, Busy" was a small skit where Joe Contini and Katie Buckley played overly busy people who did not have time for their first date. They decided to skip the first, second, third date, the sex, the morning after, the first two month period where she begins to like him but he cannot commit, the part where she asks if her dress makes her look fat and it takes him too long to answer, the break-up, and jumped right to a year later where after being broken up for a year, the two run into each other and realize that it was simply never meant to be. All this happening in five minutes as the characters just talked their way through their entire relationship simply to save time. "A Stud and a Babe" was a song sung by Matt Stedner, a nerdy shell of a man, and Kaitlin Monte, a dull disgusting woman. They wanted to be what every man and woman wanted in a guy or girl but realized that they were fine the way they were.