The run closed June 29, 2008
- Opened
- March 22, 2007
- Closed
- June 29, 2008
- Performances
- 511
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 42nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it38 named
Kevin Bernard
Ward Billeisen
Jennifer Dunne
Matt Farnsworth
Patty Goble
Brittany Marcin
Joe Aaron Reid
Darcie Roberts
Christopher Spaulding
Bridget Berger
Callie Carter
David Elder
Jennifer Frankel
Shannon Lewis
John Macinnis
Sean Mcknight
Aaron Ramey
Sean Samuels
Julie Tolivar
Matt Wall
20 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters16 roles recorded
David Hyde Pierce Lieutenant Frank Cioffi
Jill Paice Niki Harris
Debra Monk Carmen Bernstein
Karen Ziemba Georgia Hendricks
Jason Danieley Aaron Fox
Edward Hibbert Christopher Belling
Noah Racey Bobby Pepper
Megan Sikora Bambi Bernét
Michael McCormick Oscar Shapiro
Michael X. Martin Johnny Harmon
John Bolton Daryl Grady
Ernie Sabella Sidney Bernstein
Patty Goble Jessica Cranshaw
Kevin Bernard Detective O'Farrell
Jim Newman Randy
Matt Farnsworth Harv
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Scott Ellis
- Choreographer
- Rob Ashford
- Producer
- Roger Berlind, Roger Horchow, Daryl Roth, Jane Bergère, Ted Hartley & Center Theatre Group
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
(L-R): Nominees Rupert Holmes and John Kander, authors of Curtains. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 470
“before the audience opened their playbills,” it not only ran for nearly forty years but introduced Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones.
Speaker not recorded. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 299From review excerpts printed in ad for the show.
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Musicals A Hundred Year History Lewis David H 2002 2012 Mcfarland Compa, p. 304There he meets theater critic Darryl Grady and tells him that “your review of Robbin’ Hood was needlessly cruel and way off the mark.” Grady smugly responds, “Well, I’m not sure you know how to judge acting, Lieutenant.”
Speaker not recorded. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 55- shows such as The Producers, Spamalot and Curtains which hark back to the style of the farcical musical popular prior to Oklahoma! Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 6
- daddy of Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, in Curtains, who must solve a murder at Boston’s Colonial Theatre during the tryout of the musical Robbin’ Hood! (David Hyde Pierce played the detective in that 2007 musical). The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 300
- Curtains 511 Performances Opened March 22, 2007 Closed June 29, 2008 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 463
- Curtains 511 performances Opened March 22, 2007 Closed June 29, 2008 Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 463
- musicals, as writers continue to be drawn to the backstage musical, the show-within-a-show, and the self-reflexive musical in works such as The Musical of Musicals: The Musical (2003), The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), and Curtains! (2007). Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 385
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Curtains at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.