Clarksville, TN – Love is in the air and the Roxy Regional Theatre is no exception. Currently playing in Downtown Clarksville is the musical comedy revue, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. This very funny and very poignant musical touches on all aspects of love and relationships and every audience member is sure to see themselves on stage at least once.
I asked the ensemble cast of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change if they remembered the first time they were in love and to tell us about it.
Ashley Laverty, a native of Massachusetts and current resident of New York City said, “ I was in love with my high school sweetheart. He was tall and skinny, two years older that me, and a violinist. It couldn’t get any better. I remember we passed notes for about a week right before Halloween. Then, at a friends Halloween party, we talked all night long! It would have been a lot cuter had I not decided to dress up like an old man for Halloween, complete with a bald cap! Oh well! I guess I must have been a cute, old, balding man, because he became my boyfriend and first love not long after that.”
Josh Bernaski, a previous Roxy favorite had this to say about his first love experience. “I don’t know if I can say I’ve ever actually been in love, but I can remember my first real love interests… as well as the truly awful ways i dealt with them at a young age.
In sixth grade, I thought Lauren in my class was the coolest..and her locker was in my hallway, so it seemed destined that we were to be together. But when she approached me and told me she liked me in the hallway in front of everyone, I panicked and called her the newest curse word I learned that year, trying to look cool… Obviously that’s where that ended. Not my proudest moment.
The next year, I moved on and became infatuated with another girl in my class. I made it my goal to make her laugh at least once a day and it was really working – I was feeling super smooth. But it fell apart at each school dance without fail. I was mostly concerned with drinking lots of punch and tormenting the teacher chaperones, but Erica wanted to actually dance at the dance – imagine that. And I wouldn’t give in until her friends hunted me down to tell me I broke her heart and she was crying in the bathroom. We’d finally dance to some 90s ballad (probably 98 degrees’ ‘I Swear’ because it played at every dance for 3 years), it would be awesome, and then we’d hold hands until we were picked up by the folks. True love, huh. But as you can guess, that one didn’t last too long either.
I can’t say I’m a master of relationships today, but I like to think I’ve at least improved since middle school.”
It is funny to look back on love in your life. The four of us presenting I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change have the pleasure of bringing love to the stage every night for the next several weeks. We start with the very basics of relationships all the way to the love that has grown and ripened over time. We can all relate to some kind of love and as a cast, we have been able to love, laugh, and cry our way through this crazy world of relationships.
This is a show you don’t want to miss. Come out to the Roxy Regional Theatre and see what love is all about! Now showing, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00pm and Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm through March 3rd with a matinee performance on Saturday, February 18th. For more information and tickets go to www.roxyregionaltheatre.org.
See you at the theatre.
