Curtains Musical

YOU'RE ... A ... Special kind of people known as show people / You live in a world of your own ... / You don't know how lucky you are! These are words that could only be spoken -- or rather, sung -- by a genuine musical theater buff, hoofing it and playing it up to the ensemble as he belts his tuneful case. And that true believer also just happens to be the local detective, here to solve the murder of the leading lady during a show's out-of-town tryout.

"Curtains," Kander and Ebb's whodunit musical, will bring down its final curtain on Broadway in June. The show will close June 29 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre after 511 performances and 26 previews, producer Roger Berlind said. "Curtains" was one of the last collaborations between composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, who wrote the scores for such musicals as "Cabaret," "Chicago" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Ebb died in 2004. The murder-mystery musical stars David Hyde Pierce as a detective called in to investigate the murder of a Broadway star who dies during the curtain call of her troubled new show on its opening night in Boston.

"Curtains," Kander and Ebb's whodunit musical, will bring down its final curtain on Broadway in June. The show will close June 29 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre after 511 performances and 26 previews, producer Roger Berlind said. "Curtains" was one of the last collaborations between composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, who wrote the scores for such musicals as "Cabaret," "Chicago" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Ebb died in 2004. The murder-mystery musical stars David Hyde Pierce as a detective called in to investigate the murder of a Broadway star who dies during the curtain call of her troubled new show on its opening night in Boston.

STOP the world, he wants to get on: A mishap at a performance of "Curtains" at the Ahmanson Theatre last weekend left David Hyde Pierce stuck in the air, literally, for a few breathless minutes. At one point in the Kander and Ebb whodunit, set during a musical's pre-Broadway tryout, the actor -- as a stage-struck detective circa 1959 -- is supposed to "ride" a large globe down to the stage from a height of about 40 feet. But before that could happen at the Aug.

STOP the world, he wants to get on: A mishap at a performance of "Curtains" at the Ahmanson Theatre last weekend left David Hyde Pierce stuck in the air, literally, for a few breathless minutes. At one point in the Kander and Ebb whodunit, set during a musical's pre-Broadway tryout, the actor -- as a stage-struck detective circa 1959 -- is supposed to "ride" a large globe down to the stage from a height of about 40 feet. But before that could happen at the Aug.

YOU'RE ... A ... Special kind of people known as show people / You live in a world of your own ... / You don't know how lucky you are! These are words that could only be spoken -- or rather, sung -- by a genuine musical theater buff, hoofing it and playing it up to the ensemble as he belts his tuneful case. And that true believer also just happens to be the local detective, here to solve the murder of the leading lady during a show's out-of-town tryout.