Curtains Up

Broadway will celebrate the official opening of another musical today when the curtains go up on Curtains.

The colourful musical that mixes comedy with romance and murder mystery opens today at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Starring as Lieutenant Frank Cioffi is David Hyde Pierce who recently appeared onstage in Spamalot. Debra Monk, a Chicago cast alumni, will play opposite Pierce as Carmen Bernstein. Curtains is directed by Scott Ellis who has also worked on Broadway this season directing Twelve Angry Men.