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February is typically the month of hearts and flowers, love and marriage, and sweethearts. So it is appropriate that the brand new Winter Park Playhouse, a new professional theater specializing in musicals, chose as their opening show, the runaway Off-Broadway smash-hit I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
What a delightful cast for such a delightful musical: Roy Alan, Heather Alexander, Michael Colavolpe and Colleen Renee Wilson. Each cast member is talented in his or her own way. Colavolpe and Alexander are spectacular with their facial expressions and all have wonderful singing voices. The show is both funny and touching with a few moments of drama. Each sketch puts the four actors in a different relationship. They are mixed and matched throughout the evening with skits about dating, growing older, children, engagements and engagement breakups, relationships of men and women...nerds, loving couples, aging couples, all kinds of people, places and situations. Plus the intimate theatre setting almost puts you on stage with the actors, and you certainly can't miss each hilarious expression.
Dubbed "Seinfield set to pop music," this celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as "the relationship." Act I explores the journey from dating and waiting to love and marriage, while Act II reveals the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family car and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask, "Say, what are you doing Saturday night?"
The show, directed by Michael Edwards and under the musical direction of John B deHaas, features Roy Alan, Heather Alexander, Michael Colavolpe and Colleen Renee Wilson.
"People find someone they think is perfect and spend the rest of their lives trying to change each other," says Edwards, "and that's what this show is about. It captures the many levels of today's society as far as men and women are concerned."
Don't miss this show.
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