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Curtains

Opened 2007

511 performances

Musical, Modern

Curtains
Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada

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.

Music
John Kander
Lyrics
Fred Ebb; additional lyrics by John Kander & Rupert Holmes
Book
Rupert Holmes; original

Productions1 on Broadway

2007
Al Hirschfeld TheatreBroadway Original, opened March 22, 2007, directed by Scott Ellis
511 performances

Songs13 songs

Wide Open Spaces, What Kind of Man?, Thinking of Him, The Woman’s Dead, Show People, Coffee Shop Nights, In the Same Boat, I Miss the Music, Thataway!, He Did It, It’s a Business, Kansasland, A Tough Act to Follow

Recordings 2 recordings

2007
Curtains (2007 original Broadway cast) Blue Note 0946 3 92212 2 6, released June 5, 2007
United States

Licensing 1 entry

US Theatrical Rights Worldwide not stated by this source

“before the audience opened their playbills,” it not only ran for nearly forty years but introduced Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones.

Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 299

From review excerpts printed in ad for the show.

Broadway Musicals A Hundred Year History Lewis David H 2002 2012 Mcfarland Compa, p. 304

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