Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: John KanderComposer: Fred Ebb
Composer: Rupert Holmes
Performer: David Hyde Pierce
Performer: Debra Monk
Performer: Jason Danieley
Performer: Karen Ziemba
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Music Label: Manhattan Records
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Wide Open Spaces
- What Kind of Man?
- Thinking of Him
- Woman's Dead
- Show People
- Coffee Shop Nights
- In the Same Boat #1
- I Miss the Music
- Thataway!
- Man Is Dead
- He Did It
- In the Same Boat #2
- It's a Business
- Kansasland
- Thinking of Him/I Miss the Music (Reprise)
- Tough Act to Follow
- Curtains/Act 2. In the Same Boat #3
- In the Same Boat Completed
- Show People (Reprise)
- Wide Open Spaces (Finale)
- Tough Act to Follow (Reprise)
Free Music Notes for Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Its Murder
Hit: 1 Stars
Cornball musical without memorable songs. If you want nostalgia, as some of the reviews call it, listen to some old and far better Kandor and Ebb.
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Curtains is an entertaining play within a play, as well as a "whodunit" new musical comedy featuring one of the last scores by legendary, Tony Award-winning songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, New York, New York). Starring David Hyde Pierce (Spamalot, "Frasier") and Debra Monk, the Curtains original Broadway cast album is produced by nine-time Grammy Award-winner Jay David Saks.Sadly, Curtains is the final entry in the long and fruitful partnership of lyricist Fred Ebb (who died in September 2004) and composer John Kander. While the show doesn't reach the heights of the team's previous masterpieces, such as Cabaret and Chicago, it's certainly a lot better than, say, their middling 1997 offering Steel Pier. Deliberately old-fashioned (it even features a real overture, something that's fast becoming a rarity), Curtains is a whodunit rolled into a musical--or vice versa. Set in 1959 Boston, it takes place backstage at a singing-and-dancing Western corker titled Robbin Hood. Someone gets killed, and a show tunes-crazy homicide detective (David Hyde Pierce) is called in. The plot is just a pretext for a series of very entertaining, characteristically brass-heavy songs that may not have the bite of old Kander and Ebb but are still very catchy. Above all, Curtains is (both thematically and stylistically) a love letter to old-school showbiz, and it's delivered on a silver platter by a cast of pros that includes the aforementioned Hyde Pierce, Kander and Ebb habitu?e Karen Ziemba, endearing Jason Danieley and, a notch above the rest, Debra Monk. Unsurprisingly, she chews the scenery and spits it right back in a pair of rowdy numbers: "Show People" and "It's a Business." --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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