| I want to introduct something about Putt Putt | | | | faded film star Jessica Cranshaw, is a triple threat: |
| Pool Carpet. Product size: 72" x 108" Putt Putt | | | | she can't sing, act, or dance (or remember when |
| Pool Carp | | | | to say her lines). She collapses during her opening |
| Curtains | | | | night curtain call. |
| Original Broadway Cast Album | | | | The reviews of Robbin' Hood! are bad, and the |
| Music | | | | show has lost its star. Divorced songwriting team |
| John Kander | | | | Aaron Fox (composer) and Georgia Hendricks |
| Lyrics | | | | (lyricist), together with the show's naive financial |
| Fred Ebb | | | | backer, Oscar Shapiro, and Carmen Bernstein, the |
| Book | | | | hard-bitten lady co-producer (with her philandering |
| Rupert Holmes | | | | husband, Sidney), bemoan the situation ("What |
| Basedupon | | | | Kind of Man"). The show's flamboyant director, |
| Original book and concept by Peter Stone | | | | Christopher Belling, has an idea: Georgia can sing, |
| Productions | | | | and she used to act, and she knows the show |
| 2006 Los Angeles, California try-out2007 | | | | perfectly. She would be a far better leading lady |
| Broadway2009 Visby | | | | than Cranshaw was, although that is not saying |
| Curtains is a musical with a book by Rupert | | | | much. As they lament the reception of the play, |
| Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John | | | | Georgia considers her relationship with her past |
| Kander, with additional lyrics by Kander and | | | | husband. ("Thinking of Him") |
| Holmes. | | | | News comes that Cranshaw is dead, and more |
| Based on the original book and concept by Peter | | | | than that, she has been murdered ("The Woman's |
| Stone, the musical is a send-up of backstage | | | | Dead"). The entire company comes under |
| murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, | | | | suspicion, and Lt. Frank Cioffi of the Boston Police |
| Massachusetts and follows the fallout when the | | | | Department is called in to solve the homicide. He |
| supremely untalented star of Robbin' Hood of the | | | | also had seen the show and loved it (except for |
| Old West is murdered during her opening night | | | | Cranshaw). An amateur performer himself, he |
| curtain call. Can a police detective who moonlights | | | | feels that "the show must go on." He |
| as a musical theater fan save the show, solve the | | | | enthusiastically helps Carmen bolster the morale |
| case, and maybe even find love before the show | | | | of the cast ("Show People"). However, since |
| reopens, without getting killed himself? | | | | Cranshaw was poisoned in the last minutes of the |
| Production history | | | | show and never left the stage thereafter, Cioffi |
| Stone died in April 2003, leaving the book | | | | believes that she must have been murdered by a |
| unfinished, and Holmes was hired to rewrite it. Ebb | | | | member of the company. Also believing that the |
| also died before the musical was completed. | | | | perpetrator is still in the building, Cioffi sequesters |
| Curtains had its world premiere on July 25, 2006 | | | | it. Sidney Bernstein, Carmen's husband, arrives |
| at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Local | | | | from New York at least he says he was there at |
| reviews were mixed but not discouraging, and the | | | | the time of the murder. Other suspects include |
| producers decided to transfer the show to | | | | stage manager Johnny Harmon, inexperienced |
| Broadway with minor alterations. | | | | ingue Niki Harris, ambitious chorine Bambi Bern, |
| After twenty-three previews, the Broadway | | | | and the entire cast. |
| production, directed by Scott Ellis and | | | | Cioffi is left alone with the winsome Niki, who |
| choreographed by Rob Ashford, opened on March | | | | understudied Jessica Cranshaw but was passed up |
| 22, 2007 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre to mixed | | | | for the leading role and is now covering for |
| reviews. The cast included David Hyde Pierce, | | | | Georgia. The lieutenant is struck by Niki's charm |
| Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba, Edward Hibbert, | | | | and confides in her about his investigation and his |
| Jason Danieley, Noah Racey, Jill Paice, Megan | | | | lonely life, married to his job ("Coffee Shop |
| Sikora, Michael X. Martin, Michael McCormick, and | | | | Nights"). She seems to return his affection, so he |
| John Bolton reprising the roles they played in LA, | | | | hopes she is not the murderer. Carmen and |
| as well as new cast member Ernie Sabella. The | | | | Sidney Bernstein ask Boston Globe senior drama |
| musical garnered eight Tony Award nominations, | | | | critic Daryl Grady to re-review the show with its |
| with Hyde Pierce winning the award for Best | | | | new lead, and he reluctantly agrees. Director |
| Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. | | | | Belling works to re-stage a difficult production |
| Curtains closed on June 29, 2008. | | | | number, "In the Same Boat", and Cioffi suggests |
| Synopsis | | | | that the song needs to be rewritten. Composer |
| Act I | | | | Aaron Fox, alone with Cioffi,...(and so on) To get |
| It is 1959 at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, | | | | More information , you can visit some products |
| where Robbin' Hood! A New Musical of the Old | | | | about trailer awnings, zebra skin rugs, . The Putt |
| West is reaching its conclusion, and the cast sings | | | | Putt Pool Carpet products should be show more |
| of their love for the "Wide Open Spaces" of | | | | here! |
| Kansas. The egregiously untalented leading lady, | | | | |
