Curtains Recording to Be Released on June 5

The Broadway production of the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Peter Stone-Rupert Holmes musical Curtains will be recorded by Broadway Angel/Manhattan Records on March 26, with a release date scheduled for June 5. The CD will be produced by nine-time Grammy Award winner Jay David Saks and executive produced by Bill Rosenfield.

The show is currently in previews at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre and will open officially on March 22. It is directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Rob Ashford. The cast is headed by David Hyde Pierce, Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba, Jason Danieley, Jill Paice, Edward Hibbert, Ernie Sabella, John Bolton, Michael X. Martin, Michael McCormick, Noah Racey, and Megan Sikora.

Featured in the ensemble are Ashley Amber, Nili Bassman, Kevin Bernard, Ward Billeisen, Paula Leggett Chase, Jennifer Dunne, David Eggers, J. Austin Eyer, Matt Farnsworth, Patty Goble, Mary Ann Lamb, David Loud, Brittany Marcin, Jim Newman, Joe Aaron Reid, Darcie Roberts, Christopher Spaulding, Allison Spratt, and Jerome Vivona.

Curtains is set in 1959 in Boston, during the pre-Broadway tryout of a new musical. When the leading lady mysteriously dies onstage during the applause at the end of the show, the entire company and creative team are possible suspects; their various motives must be sorted out by a local detective (Pierce) who happens to be a musical theater fan.