TV: A Sneak Peek At The Cast and Creative of Curtains!

By: BWW Mar. 01, 2007

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BroadwayWorld is pleased to bring you this sneak peek at the people behind the curtains at Curtains, the new, original musical comedy featuring one of the last scores by the legendary songwriting team of Kander and Ebb. In this video, cast and creative team members are interviewed about the process of bringing Curtains to the Broadway stage.

The show is now in previews at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street, west of Eighth Avenue) for an opening night of Thursday, March 22. Curtains stars David Hyde Pierce as Lieutenant Frank Cioffi and Debra Monk as producer Carmen Bernstein. The production also stars Karen Ziemba as lyricist Georgia Hendricks, Jason Danieley as composer Aaron Fox, Jill Paice as ingénue Niki Harris and Edward Hibbert as director Christopher Belling, with John Bolton as theatre critic Daryl Grady, Michael X. Martin as stage manager Johnny Harmon, Michael McCormick as investor Oscar Shapiro, Noah Racey as choreographer Bobby Pepper, Ernie Sabella as producer Sidney Bernstein and Megan Sikora as understudy Bambi Bernét.

Curtains is an original musical comedy with a book by Rupert Holmes (multiple Tony Award-winner for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Say Goodnight Gracie), music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb (the Tony Award-winning songwriters of Cabaret, Chicago, New York, New York), original book and concept by Tony Award-winner Peter Stone (1776, Titanic, The Will Rogers Follies), and additional lyrics by John Kander & Rupert Holmes. The musical is directed by four-time Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis, who is also represented on Broadway this season with The Little Dog Laughed and the national tour of 12 Angry Men. Choreography is by Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford (Thoroughly Modern Millie).

The musical "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 (David Hyde Pierce) 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," state press notes.

Visit www.CurtainsTheMusical.com for more information.

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