“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” came to stage at UMass Boston starting on Nov.14, running until the 22nd. The musical cast is made up of seven freshmen and two sophomores, four guys and five girls. It is a hilarious take on how dating in our day and age is in society; the ugliness of it and the reality we all have lived and can relate to.

Each scene or song they sang lasted around five minutes. This was a perfect time frame, as it was not too long or too short, and it allowed you to laugh without overdoing anything. Honestly, I wasn’t anticipating such a raunchy script and I was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked. There wasn’t a moment where a few minutes would pass without the crowd laughing. I believe the reason it worked so well is because of how true the situations they acted out were. Whether it’s unsolicited dick pics, meeting up with a Tinder date for the first time or struggling with balancing life and sex in a marriage. They are real things we all know about, have seen, read or experienced ourselves. What I didn’t expect was for the actors to enter the stage in such a candid way; swearing under their breath how nervous they were to go out and how much they’d rather be sitting at home watching Netflix. Especially as college students, so many situations were brought up that we can all relate to. Whether it’s the struggle of finding a significant other, or being the friend who is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. There were so many different situations they touched upon, it would be difficult to not relate to.

We were given a progression throughout the play of time and how relationships change as we get older. At the beginning, it’s the struggle of being single and then it goes to those who can only talk about their children and speak to everyone in baby voices, losing their identity in the process of starting a family. At the end of the musical, we see an older man and woman meet each other at a funeral of someone who neither of them can remember the name of, hilariously. Both are widows and they begin talking about their old, lost lovers. We see a new relationship blossom, even after the significant loss they both faced, and even with grey hair; there are still new beginnings. The musical ended and began the same way: all actors are dressed in long black cloaks, chanting in a line. They tell the audience a tale of how the relationship between man and woman hasn’t really changed much at all from the beginning of time until now.