What's truly astonishing about I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, which Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts wrote and which has been running Off-Broadway for seven years, is its virtual obscurity hereabouts. No one -- absolutely no one -- has ever brought the amusing revue up to me, one way or the other. The cause for this non-word-of-mouth locally seems traceable to an early decision on the part of the show's producers: They apparently reckoned that the material, which sends up male-female romantic relationships from first date to rocking chair, would be most appealing to non-Manhattanites. Then they promoted the show accordingly, with much success.

For the spiffily produced new DiPietro-R[...]