David Hyde Pierce to Headline Ahmanson Debut of Kander & Ebb's Curtains
The John Kander/Fred Ebb musical Curtains will have its world premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in California in mid-July. David Hyde Pierce will star, and Scott Ellis will direct.
Curtains is a backstage murder mystery and musical comedy set in the 1950s in Boston. After the leading lady's mystifying curtain call demise, Frank Cioffi Pierce, homicide detective and musical theater aficionado, is on the case. He's got a tough job as the bodies pile up, the ensemble dwindles, and everyone is a suspect. Can Cioffi solve the murders and save the show before it reaches Broadway?
Curtains features music by Kander, lyrics by the late Ebb and a book by Rupert Holmes based on the original libretto by the late Peter Stone. Holmes and Kander contributed additional lyrics.
