Beginning May 9, the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and Broadway Asia Entertainment will co-produce the musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at New York's Westside Theatre. The production will run through June 3. This will be the first time in history that a foreign production of an American musical will play inside the United States. The show will be entirely in Mandarin Chinese, with English subtitles projected above the stage.
The musical recently finished a successful run at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in Shanghai. It was the first western musical to be performed there in Mandarin Chinese. Following the run in New York, the company will take the show on a multi-city tour in China, beginning in Beijing.
The American version, written by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts, has been running in New York since 1996.
