Austin returns home and finds Diana and Jeff making up. Marcy and Diana go to the bar where the Bartender and Cocktail Waitress lament with them in “What Do We Do It For?”. Austin, now back with Catherine, still hurt by Marcy’s earlier rejection, and reeling from her tactless attempt to apologize, sends her away.Īustin, Marcy, Diana, and Jeff, all deal with their heartache in “But I Do”. Marcy decides that she does return Austin’s affections even though he is so wrong for her. Jeff warns her that becoming exclusive will only end in heartache in “That’s What’s Gonna Happen”. The ensemble appears and helps Marcy convince herself that she is better off “Alone”.ĭiana tires of her and Jeff’s “friends with benefits” situation, and asks Jeff to become exclusive. Marcy wanders the streets of New York thinking about what she has done. Austin returns home to find Catherine waiting for him. Ultimately Austin runs off and tells Marcy how he feels, but she is not ready to feel the same way, and she tells Austin so in “Just Not Now”. Austin debates what he should do in “Maybe We Just Made Love”. Jeff warns Austin that he is letting his emotions get the better of him, and that he should keep his feelings to himself. After sleeping with Marcy, Austin runs home and tells Jeff that he might be in love with Marcy. Meanwhile Jeff and Diana come to an understanding that they express to each other in “We’re Just Friends”. This fight ends with the two sleeping together. Crushed, Austin blames the failure on Marcy, who turns on Austin and yells that the reason for his failure is his insistence on having a completely ordered and structured life. However, just as their song builds to a kiss, Marcy breaks the news about Catherine to Austin. They both feel a way they haven’t before, and they tell each other in “Because of You”. Austin feels liberated, and Marcy feels like someone actually stood up for her. He explodes at the waiter when he tries to charge Marcy too much for dinner. Austin has a bit too much to drink and finally grasps all of Marcy’s lessons of saying what you honestly feel. She takes Austin out for dinner so that she can break it to him gently. The response from Catherine comes on a post card that Marcy intercepts. However, Jeff accidentally sends the poem early. He learns well, but Marcy tells him not to send the poem for six months. Marcy tries to teach Austin the difference between the clichéd romance of a greeting card and the honest romance of a poem in “The Perfect Romance”. Austin calls Catherine, and when her response is all that Marcy predicted it would be Austin agrees to let Marcy help him. She shows him that the lack of romance in his ordered and mannered way of life is evident in how he takes his “Coffee”. Marcy tries to keep Austin from writing a cliché laden greeting card poem. Marcy discovers that Austin is now trying to win Catherine back by writing her the perfect poem. Marcy is convinced that Austin would make a perfect rebound man, and after trying to track down Austin for many weeks, Marcy finally corners him at the coffee shop across from the hospital, where Austin sits writing. Jeff’s courtship of Diana goes notably better until Jeff throws out his back in a bedroom accident and is rushed to the hospital. Austin tries to tell Marcy of his sensitive side, but continually ambushes himself by bringing up his ex-girlfriend in “But I Don’t Want to Talk About Her”. In an attempt to be indifferent to Catherine, he tries to win over Marcy.
Jeff sets up a double date for himself and Austin, where Austin meets Marcy for the first time.
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE SERIES
Diana, being an actuary, tells Marcy that the best way to find the perfect man is to find a man who is absolutely wrong, which she proves through a series of calculations in “The Actuary Song”. Meanwhile, Marcy, a flighty photographer, laments to her best friend Diana, about her difficulty in finding the perfect man. Dejected, Austin goes to his local bar, where his brother, Jeff, the eternal bachelor, tries to cheer Austin up by telling him the best way to win a woman back is by being completely indifferent to her in, “Oh, What A Difference”. Upon arriving to her apartment Austin finds Catherine in bed with another man.
The story begins with Austin Bennet, a young greeting card writer who has his whole life planned out, preparing for a date with his long term girlfriend Catherine on “Another Saturday Night in New York”.
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