Curtains

Cecile and I watched our third Broadway play last Saturday, 05 January 2008. The play was called "Curtains" and starred David Hyde Pierce! Yes, he is Frasier's brother in the award-winning comedy series called "Frasier." We have watched Pierce in Frasier, even when we were in Vietnam and back in our Greenhome here in Makati City. He won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical at the 61st Tony Awards last 10 June 2007 and this was another reason why we opted to watch this play.

David plays a detective in Boston who tries to find out a murderer amidst a stage play.

“Curtains” also stars Tony and Emmy Award winner Debra Monk as producer Carmen Bernstein, Tony Award winner 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.

Scott Ellis (Twelve Angry Men, The Little Dog Laughed) directed the play while Rob Ashford choreographed the steps in "Curtains." The play also marks one of the last collaborations by one of the longest-running songwriting teams in Broadway history — composer Kander and lyricist Ebb. Both have worked on Cabaret, Chicago, Zorba, The Rink and Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Photo of "Curtains" from the Broadway play "Curtains" from www.playbill.com but I really do need to frame and mount our own poster.