Closer Than Ever at Long Beach Performing Arts Center

Filled with hilarious and poignant songs about dating, parenting, aging and dreams both fulfilled and unrequited, Closer Than Ever is like a musical "how-to" manual for life. With each song a self-contained story inspired by real-life experiences, its message to value the little things in life remains timeless. ICT opens its 2016 season with a recently updated version of this Outer Critics Circle Award winner for Best off-Broadway Musical that also netted Drama Desk nominations for lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. (Fosse, Miss Saigon) and composer David Shire (Big: the musical).