Los Angeles : Center Theatre Group will present Curtains , one of the final collaborations between John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. Billed as a pre Broadway engagement, the musical comedy will star David Hyde Pierce, who can currently be seen on Broadway in Spamalot , as detective Frank Cioffi.
The musical comedy features music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, Rupert Holmes and John Kander, a book by Rupert Holmes, based on an earlier libretto by the late Peter Stone, and direction by Scott Ellis.
No official dates have been announced, but Curtains will run from mid July through mid September 2006.
Curtains is a "backstage murder mystery and musical comedy set in the 1950’s Boston. After the leading lady’s mystifying curtain call demise, Frank Cioffi (David Hyde Pierce), homicide detective and musical theatre aficionado, is on the case! He’s got a tough job as the bodies pile up, the ensemble dwindles, and everyone is a suspect. And that second act needs work! Can Cioffi solve the murders and save the show before it reaches Broadway?"
Tickets to the general public will go on sale in early March.
For more information visit www.taperahmanson.com .
Your Talkback on this Story