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Dating and break-ups and love, oh my!

‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” debuts at the Jewel Box Theatre in Poulsbo

will debut at the Jewel Box Theatre in Poulsbo on March 21. The show will continue until April 19. “You spend your entire life trying to find someone then all you want to do is change them after that,” Carbajal said. “At some point you get so desperate you’ll take anyone, but then you try By RICHARD D. OXLEY to change them from their clothes, their hair, their Kitsap Week personality. Relationships t’s the timeless tale of aren’t perfect and that’s love. Two people meet. where the comedy comes They complete each from.” other and fall passionately But changing a loved into intimate devotion one isn’t the sole topic … then they can’t the musical tackles. wait to change After all, there’s everything about dating, marriage, Cover their lover. kids, break ups It’s just one Story and more. aspect of the mu“This is a show sical “I Love You, all about relationYou’re Perfect, Now ships and how they do Change.” and don’t work,” Assistant “It is a musical comedy,” Director Jordan Brodley director Gabe Carbajal said. “From the conception said. “It really strikes a of relationships to the end chord of what the reality of of relationships, to all other relationships are.” parts of life.” “I Love You, You’re All the stages of relaPerfect, Now Change,” tionships and love are

Gary Chambers, April Spain, Dan Engelhard and Anna Borer take on multiple roles in “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.” Honey Toad Studio told through a series of vignettes featuring four actors, each taking on multiple roles. “Every scene they play a different character,” Brodley said. “So you’ll see the same people playing couples, but they’ll be different couples. They have

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six or eight different parts. It’s a challenge for actors, but it’s fun for them.” Brodley notes that the play, while traversing different characters and themes, covers all stages of relationships from dating to break ups, and sticking together through thick and thin. “My favorite moment in the entire thing is in the second act,” He said. “There is a song called ‘Shouldn’t I Be Less in Love with You,’ which is one of the guys singing to a woman. They’ve been married X number of years, and he’s realizing he’s still in love. And that’s a really poignant and sweet moment. It’s something we can all hope and strive for.” On the other end of the

spectrum, Brodley said, there is another scene featuring a couple that runs through their entire relationship, right to the break up, on their first date. “And of course, it’s just funny,” Brodley said. Carbajal, however, with the help of musical director Nils Thompson, was certain not to leave the music out of the musical comedy. “With this one, we are going super-cabaret with it,” Carbajal said, further noting that the production goes light on other aspects of the play in order to showcase the music. “We decided to strip it down because the music is so funny and the lyrics are so funny that we wanted to focus on the actors and the music itself,” he said. “We

are going minimal stage, very minimal props, and minimal costumes.” Each song takes on a different theme. “Take for instance, there is song about a man who no longer speaks like a man, he speaks the way he would to his toddler,” Carbajal said. “He speaks to everybody that way. He’s got a whole song about how he can no longer function as an adult anymore, he only speaks like a child.” The song brings to mind the change people go through after having children, and how that experience affects their friendships. “So they’re no longer humans, and his friend See Musical, Page 3

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