- I listened more to Tick Tick Boom today. Very nice music; Rent (which was written after) is clearly in the same style. Still trying to decide on tickets for the production at the Coronet Theatre. It closes at the end of June.
- On the other hand, I certainly want tickets to Curtains when they show up on Goldstar. According to Broadway.Com, the remainder of the casting has been announced for the world premiere of the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical. In addition to previously announced star David Hyde Pierce, the show will feature Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba, Jason Danieley, Jill Paice, Edward Hibbert, John Bolton, Michael X. Martin, Michael McCormick, Noah Racey, Megan Sikora and Robert Walden. For those not familar, Curtains is a backstage murder mystery and musical comedy set in the 1950s in Boston. After the leading lady’s mystifying curtain call demise, Frank Cioffi (Pierce), homicide detective and musical theater aficionado, is on the case. He’s got a tough job as the bodies pile up, the ensemble dwindles and everyone is a suspect. Can Cioffi solve the murders and save the show before it reaches Broadway? Curtains features music by Kander, lyrics by the late Ebb and a book by Rupert Holmes based on the original libretto by the late Peter Stone. Holmes and Kander contributed additional lyrics. It should be at the Ahmanson from July 25 through September 10. I’m looking forward to it.
P.S. For my friends in the Washington DC area. Goldstar has just opened shop there, so you can use them for half-price tickets. If you join from my referral, I’ll get some goodies. Goldstar, by the way, is also in the San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, and Las Vegas areas as well. No cost to join.
