Described as ‘Seinfield set to music’, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, the longest running off-Broadway musical ever, is returning to Cork after the Cork Musical Theatre Company’s sell out run at the Cork Arts Theatre back in June. Having run for over 12 years, and with more than 4,500 performances to date, this musical comedy, which celebrates the modern-day suburban mating game, has become the most proposal-friendly show in theatre history. There has already been forty-eight different occasions when surprise proposals have taken place at performances – you have been warned!

The show is presented in the form of a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. With few exceptions, the scenes stand independent of the others, but progress in a fashion designed to suggest an overall arc to relationships throughout the course of one’s life.

Written by playwright/lyricist Joe DiPietro and composer Jimmy Roberts, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, has been taken on by the Cork Musical Theatre Company, a new company founded by Carol-Anne Ryan. The aim of the company, in their own words, “is to present feel good high quality musicals that will entertain audiences of all ages”. Carol-Anne was first introduced to the show while studying at London Studio Centre and longed to produce the show for Cork audiences so much so that she financed the entire production in June herself.

The production is directed by Trevor Ryan whose directing credits include Gingerbread Lady at the Cork Opera House, Communication Cord, Say It Ain’t So Joe, Joseph & His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, and Philadelphia, Here I Come, all of which were staged at the Everyman Palace, as well as Brighton Beach Memoirs, Bad Seed, Brimstone & Treacle, Our Day Out, Sylvia, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Extremities at the Cork Arts Theatre. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change returns for another run, this time at the Half Moon Theatre from September 3 until September 6 and again from September 15 until September 20.

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