CLOSER THAN EVER
So Closer Than Ever is about relationships for today. Here’s a man who asks his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend, “You Want to Be My Friend?” (She does not.) Here’s a single woman venting her sexual repression by satirically considering the mating habits of “The Bear, the Tiger, the Hamster, and the Mole.” Here’s a couple singing “Another Wedding Song” as they reflect on their previous marriages. Here’s “One of the Good Guys” reflecting on a romantic fling he once sacrificed in order to stay faithful to his wife. Here’s “Miss Byrd,” the prim corporate secretary, fantasizing about the salacious secrets of her fellow drones. Here’s the “Life Story” of an ex-hippie admitting nostalgia for her mixed-up marriage to a restless man (“So off he went with his hair of bronze,” she sings, “to find a life like Kahlil Gibran’s”). And here’s a man singing “She Loves Me Not” about a woman who’s singing “he loves me not” about another man, who in turn sings “he loves me not” about the first man.
