Love is sometimes closer than you think. That’s the case in the musical “She Loves Me” where two employees of a 1930s European perfumery, who don’t really get along, are unknowingly corresponding with each other after responding to a lonely-hearts club ad.

Kevin Long, Director of Theatre and Professor of Theatre at Harper College, is directing the delightful musical by Joe Masteroff (book), Jerry Bock (music), and Sheldon Harnick (Lyrics), Nov. 14-23 at the Performing Arts Center of Harper College, 1200 W. Algonquin Rd. in Palatine.

Long noted that this musical, as well as two movies—“The Shop Around the Corner” and “You’ve Got Mail”—are based on a 1937 play by Miklos Laszlo, which is set in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, “a few years before the rise of fascism and the start of World War I

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