Jonathan Rayson Joins 'Love Perfect Change' Oct.26

Jonathan Rayson is joining the cast of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change on Friday, October 26, replacing Bryan McElroy who is in rehearsals to play Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys in Chicago.  Jonathan will join cast members Anne Bobby, Frank Vlastnik and Amy White in the love-happy hit musical, which is now playing in its 12th smash year at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street).

Jonathan Rayson appeared on Broadway in Little Shop of Horrors and A Year With Frog and Toad, and he played the leading role of Seymour in the Little Shop National Tour.  His Off-Broadway credits include Adrift in Macao and That Time of the Year, and he was Cornelius Hackl in Paper Mill's Hello, Dolly!  Jonathan's debut CD, "Shiny and New," features music by some of the 1970s' greatest pop songwriters.

The hilarious I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change has played more than 4,500 performances; the second longest-running Off-Broadway musical of all time after The Fantasticks.

Additional productions of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change have been mounted in more than 400 cities worldwide including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, London, Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Sydney, Prague, Seoul, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Dublin, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing.

Off-Broadway's phenomenal longest-running musical on the boards celebrates the modern-day suburban mating game.  Audiences fill the theatre with laughter as the cast explores the joys of dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives, and in-laws.

The show is written by playwright/lyricist Joe DiPietro and composer Jimmy Roberts.  Directed by Joel Bishoff, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is presented by James Hammerstein Productions, Bernie Kukoff and Jonathan Pollard.