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Perfect, Now Change
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Peninsula
Players recreate
off-Broadway
musical comedy
in Ilwaco
By PATRICK WEBB
FOR COAST WEEKEND
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Ever felt uncertainty in a relationship?
Ever broken up?
All are issues highlighted in a musical
comedy presented by Peninsula Players in Ilwa-
co, Washington, this month.
“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”
opens Friday, March 9, and runs three weekends
through Sunday, March 25, at the River City
Playhouse. Tickets are on sale at Long Beach
Peninsula locations, or reservations may be
made by phone.
The show is presented as a series of musical
vignettes about love and relationships. Scenes
show characters reflecting on being single, fac-
ing a first date, meeting the parents, marriage,
pregnancy, parenting and breaking up.
Director Rita Smith said it is intended for
adult audiences. The show was off-Broadway’s
second longest-running show and has played in
London and around the world, where it’s been
translated into 17 languages, including Manda-
rin, Catalan and Turkish.
“A friend saw it and said it was hilarious,”
Smith said. “It’s definitely adult humor — it’s
hysterical. There’s a lot of truisms in it, even
though it is played over the top.”
In New York and elsewhere, the show has
been staged with as few as four performers.
Smith has chosen a larger group; all portray
several characters. Actors include Smith, Rob-
ert Scherrer, Missy Bageant, Bryan Foster, Bob
Goldberg, Melissa Goldberg, David Immel,
Bette Lu Krause, Rachel Lake, Kevin Perry,
Rose Power, Diana Thompson and Matthew
Warner.
IF YOU GO
“I Love You, You’re Per-
fect, Now Change”
Who: Peninsula Players
What: “I Love You, You’re
Perfect, Now Change.”
Where: River City Play-
house, 127 Lake St., Ilwaco,
Washington
When: 7 p.m. Friday,
March 9, and Saturday,
March 10; 2 p.m. Sunday,
March 11; 7 p.m. March
16, 17, 23, 24; and 2 p.m.
March 18 and 25. Doors
open half an hour before
showtimes, except at the
6:15 p.m. March 9 gala
opening
Admission: $15
Tickets: Okie’s in Ocean
Park, Stormin’ Norman in
Long Beach and Ole Town
Café in Ilwaco; at the door,
if available
Reservations: Call Rita
Smith at 360-665-0028 or
360-244-3517
More details:
peninsula-players.com