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"Closer Than Ever!"
"Closer Than Ever!"
You won’t want to miss Maltby & Shire’s Closer Than Ever, a highly entertaining and touching musical revue about the highs and lows and everything in between of life and love in modern times. The New York Times review said, “The songs of Maltby and Shire communicate something rarely found in theatre music nowadays: a rich sweeping sense of lives being lived and people changing over time.”
Each song is an engaging story in itself. From the surprising exploits of an unassuming office worker to the tenderness of a second marriage. From the enduring bonds of friendship to the anguish of unrequited and lost love. Through the joyful humour and trials of relationships to the poignant wisdom of shared experiences, Closer Than Ever promises to be an unforgettable musical celebration!
Each song is an engaging story in itself. From the surprising exploits of an unassuming office worker to the tenderness of a second marriage. From the enduring bonds of friendship to the anguish of unrequited and lost love. Through the joyful humour and trials of relationships to the poignant wisdom of shared experiences, Closer Than Ever promises to be an unforgettable musical celebration!
Closer Than Ever contains mature content and is rated PG-13.
Closer Than Ever with music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., opened on Broadway in November 1989 to rave reviews. “A bookless book musical,” it began as a one-act play conceived by Steven Scott Smith, who later expanded it into a two-act production, with Maltby taking over as director. Shire is a well-known film composer, whose many credits include Farewell My Lovely, All the President’s Men, Saturday Night Fever and The Conversation, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Maltby is best known for the two Broadway shows he conceived and directed, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Fosse