Recently, there’s been a string of modern off-Broadway New York-based musicals which employ kooky characters and a knowing sense of humour to cast a new light on modern relationships. I Love You Because is a musical born in this era – the era of Jason Robert Brown and breaking the fourth wall; of non-linear storylines and off-the-wall jokes, of characters who resemble people you might actually know. But I Love You Because goes one step further than its comrades-in-arms: it takes one of the oldest and most beloved stories in our culture – that of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – reverses the genders and transplants it in modern-day New York City.
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