Closer Than Ever continues exclusively on BroadwayHD. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Award-winning producers Ginger Quiff Media and BroadwayHD, the streaming service for live theatre, are presenting this brand-new digital revival of the Outer Critics Circle Award-winning musical revue, with music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr, from […]
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West End stars in cast for digital revival of Closer Than Ever
Musical theatre stars Kerry Ellis, Lee Mead and Grace Mouat will feature with 2018 X Factor winner Dalton Harris in a digital revival of Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever in September. Produced by Thomas Hopkins and Michael Quinn for Ginger Quiff Media and Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley and Gio Messale for Broadway HD, […]
Closer Than Ever – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – PQA @Riddle’s Court
Closer Than Ever continues at PQA @Riddle’s Court until 27 August 2018 (not 15, 22). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ A classy visual of the cast of three men and three women all dressed in shades of grey and white sets the tone for the piece. The upstage area is used as […]
Closer Than Ever – The Pheasantry
Closer Than Ever continues at The Pheasantry, London until 27 April, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Clever, witty, regretful, searingly honest… 23 catchy songs and not a dud among them from the renowned American team of Richard Maltby Jr and David Shire, slickly performed by four […]
Interview – Richard Carson on his role in Closer Than Ever at The Pheasantry
Actor and singer RICHARD CARSON is soon to appear in Richard Maltby Jr and David Shire’s critically acclaimed revue Closer Than Ever (25–27 April) at The Pheasantry on London’s King’s Road. In this Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Off-Broadway Alliance Award winning companion to their hit revue Starting Here, Starting Now, Maltby and Shire […]
Back to Back Maltby and Shire revivals at The Pheasantry
Award-winning independent theatre company Neil Eckersley Productions is to produce revivals of Maltby and Shire’s critically acclaimed revues Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever at London’s The Pheasantry next month. With lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr and music by David Shire, Starting Here, Starting Now is a chronicle of the changing emotions in romantic […]
Richard Maltby Jr – Closer Than Ever still brings surprises
Lyricist and director Richard Maltby, Jr. has been in London to direct a revised version of his Off-Broadway hit, Closer Than Ever (written with long-time collaborator David Shire) which has received its European premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. With Shire, Maltby, Jr. has also written lyrics for Starting Here, Starting Now, Baby, Closer Than Ever and the musical […]
Closer Than Ever – Jermyn Street Theatre
Maltby & Shire’s Closer Than Ever continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 7 June. Following the success of its Off-Broadway revival two years ago and the associated cast album, Richard Maltby, Jr and David Shire’s 1989 musical revue Closer Than Ever has come to London’s Jermyn Theatre Theatre in revised form. As a revue […]
Closer Than Ever – Richard Maltby Jr directs new production
A revised version of the Off-Broadway hit, Richard Maltby, Jr and David Shire’s Closer Than Ever, receives its European premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre (6 May–7 June 2014) in a brand new production directed by Tony Award-winning Maltby himself (Miss Saigon, Starting Here Starting Now, Ain’t Misbehavin’). The production will star Graham Bickley (Ragtime, Miss Saigon, Follies), Sophie-Louise Dann (Lend […]
