Curtains The Musical

Curtains is a musical mystery comedy with a book by rupert holmes lyrics by fred ebb and music by john kander with additional lyrics by kander and holmes.

Curtains the musical. The show opened on tour last autumn with a spell in the west end before returning to the open road at the start of the year. The show is set in 1959 boston where a troupe of actors is trying out a musical called robbin hood of the old west. The hit production of kander and ebb s curtains will be streamed online for charity it has been announced. The broadway production garnered 8 nominations at the 2007 tony awards including best musical.

Kander and ebb s tony award winning musical curtains will be streamed again by popular demand on wednesday 22 april at 7pm until 11 59pm bst in thursday 23 april at the curtains streaming site. The uk tour of curtains launched in early october 2019 at the churchill theatre bromley and toured the country making a brief stop in the west end at wyndham s theatre over christmas. This critically acclaimed production directed by paul foster and choreographed by alistair david toured the uk from october 2019 to march 2020 and played a limited run in london s west end at the wyndham s theatre. Based on the original book and concept of the same name by peter stone the musical is a send up of backstage murder mystery plots set in 1959 boston massachusetts and follows the fallout when jessica cranshaw the supremely untalented.

The original cast included david hyde pierce and debra monk. It was nominated for eight tony awards though it only won one david hyde pierce best actor in a musical. Enter a local detective who just happens to be a musical theatre fan. Curtains is a musical theatre parody of whodunnit classics with numbers ranging from the classic musical theatre song and dance a tough act to follow to the heartfelt i miss the music a comedic send up suitable for all ages curtains will have the audience laughing until the last curtain falls.

From creators of cabaret and chicago this tony award winning backstage murder mystery musical will have audiences laughing and guessing right to the final curtain. The play is currently splitting the sides of audiences across the uk on a national tour but will settle in to wyndham s. Musical comedy caper curtains is coming to the west end this christmas. Starring jason manford the producers chitty chitty bang bang this is the uk premiere of the hilarious curtains the musical by kander ebb.