I Love You Because

Our Review:

27 September 2007

I quite see how you really might love I Love You Because, a little musical dead bang in the Big Apple tradition of romance and friendship among young professional New York City types, though not as good as (though I didn’t like that much either) I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.

The exemplary template of Stephen Sondheim’s Company hangs like a sword of Damocles over such sardonic goy-meets-girl shows with a twist of cynicism. The especial interest in the no-expense-spared production at the always welcoming Landor is the casting of Daniel Boys as Austin, a greeting card writer who, like Shakespeare’s Romeo, ditches an old girlfriend as he’s swept away by a new one.

Boys will be Boys, an ever chirpy, cheerful contestant on the television search for Joseph, Any Dream Will Do. He has since sung Anthony in the Festival Hall concert performance of Sweeney Todd with Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman, and appeared as...

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rds - 19 October 2007:

A great effort by the Landor, and Robert McWhir, in bringing this quintessentially NYC show to London. The staging is amazing and the cast uniformly excellent with some truly bravura performances. I really would love to see it spread its wings and fly on a bigger stage, but I wonder if it is just too NYC for that? ...

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