New York : Curtains begins its Broadway run today as it opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theater.
Starring in the new Kander and Ebb musical is David Hyde Pierce as Frank Cioffi, Debra Monk as Carmen Bernstein, Ernie Sabella as Sidney Bernstein, Karen Ziemba as Georgia Hendricks, Jason Danieley as Aaron Fox, Jill Paice as Niki Harris, Edward Hibbert as Christopher Belling, John Bolton as Daryl Grady, Michael X. Martin as Johnny Harmon, Michael McCormick as Oscar Shapiro, Noah Racey as Bobby Pepper, and Megan Sikora as Bambi Bernstein.
The ensemble includes Ashley Amber, Nili Bassman, Kevin Bernard, Ward Billeisen, Paula Leggett Chase, Jennifer Dunne, David Eggers, J. Austin Eyer, Matt Farnsworth, Patty Goble, Mary Ann Lamb, David Loud, Brittany Marcin, Jim Newman, Joe Aaron Reid, Darcie Roberts, Christopher Spaulding, Allison Spratt, and Jerome Vivona.
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.
The creative team includes set design by Anna Louizos, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski, and sound design by Brian Ronan.
Curtains unfolds backstage at Boston’s Colonial Theatre in 1959, where a new musical could be a Broadway smash, were it not for the presence of its talent-free leading lady. When the hapless star dies on opening night during her curtain call, Lieutenant Frank Cioffi arrives on the scene to conduct an investigation. But the lure of the theatre proves irresistible and after an unexpected romance blooms for the stage-struck detective, he finds himself just as drawn toward making the show a hit, as he is in solving the murder.
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