Details: Ja'Duke Inc. presents "Curtains" at The Shea Theater, July 24, 25, 26, 31, 2009
and August 1, 2, 2009
Curtains marks one of the last collaborations by one of the longest-running songwriting teams in Broadway history- composer Kander and lyricist Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, Zorba, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Woman of the Year).
Curtains is set in 1959 in Boston at a pre-Broadway tryout of a new musical "where it's literally ‘curtains' for the leading lady who dies mysteriously onstage during the applause at the end of the show." The entire company - the producers, the songwriters, the director, the actors, the stage manager - are possible suspects and each has a motive to be sorted out by a local detective.
The detective, of course, "is a fervent musical theatre fan, allows the company to continue rehearsing while he conducts his murder investigation," according to CTG. "He soon finds himself in the middle of the uproarious bedlam of theatrical egos and eccentricities, more murders and even a budding love affair."
Ja'Duke, 110 Industrial Blvd., Turners Falls, MA 01376 (413) 863-0001; jcpa@jaduke.com.