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| Presented at the
Civic Center Little Theater
on June 19, 20, 26, 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM. Also, a matinee is presented
on June 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM. The show is part of the 2009
FestivALL.
The Guild is proud to announce that the Summer Theatre series is sponsored this year by Mrs. Alex Schoenbaum.
Additional sponsors include the Central West Virginia Convention and Visitor's
Bureau and the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.
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Overview
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 Curtains is a musical with a
libretto by Rupert Holmes and lyrics and music by the team who created Chicago
and Cabaret, John Kander and Fred Ebb. The musical
comedy whodunit is a “show-within-a-show”. A Broadway bound show, Robbin’
Hood of the Old West is having out-of-town tryouts in Boston of 1959. The
production is interrupted when the supremely untalented star is murdered during
her opening night curtain call. Lt. Frank Cioffi, Boston’s finest detective and
a musical theatre fan himself, becomes involved in solving the crime (and
crimes) and discovers he has much advice for revamping the production. Can this
moonlighting detective solve the case, and maybe even find love before the show
reopens, without getting killed himself?
Curtains is a fresh new musical. It
ran on Broadway through June, 2008 and received 8 Tony nominations.
David Hyde Pierce won the 2007 Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a
Musical for his portrayal of Lt. Cioffi.
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Characters
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Description |
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Played By |
| Lt. Frank Cioffi |
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Local Boston detective who is also a musical theatre aficionado.
Aside from being exceptionally good at his job, he has also aspired to be a
musical theatre performer his entire life. He falls in love with Niki. |
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Bob McCarty |
| Niki Harris |
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A naïve ingenue and chorus girl understudy in the
chorus of the show-within-a-show during its Boston tryout. She aspires to
make it as a Broadway performer and falls in love with Lt. Cioffi. |
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Cary Brown |
| Georgia Hendricks |
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Female half of the
show-within-a-show songwriting team. She ends up replacing the leading
lady role of that show.
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Emily Capece |
| Carmen Bernstein |
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Brassy Broadway producer.
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Laurie Pennington |
| Aaron Fox |
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Composer
of the show-within-a-show. His songwriting partner, Georgia, is also
his wife from whom he is separated. He is a sexy, charming, and a
ladies' man.
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Brian Deweese |
| Sidney Bernstein |
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Producer of the
out-of-town show. Sidney is tough and self-serving. |
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Alan Pennington |
| Christopher Belling |
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English director.
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Rick Brown |
| Bambi Bernet |
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Performer in chorus and daughter of
Carmen, the lead producer. She is hungry to work her way up to be a
leading performer.
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Jennifer Arnold |
| Daryl Grady |
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A theatre
critic for the local Boston newspaper, he enjoys using the power he has to
make or break shows during the out-of-town tryouts.
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Bill Rainey |
| Johnny Harmon |
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The stage manager of the
show-within-a-show. He keeps the company in line with his gruff, but
loveable manner.
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Ted Brightwell |
| Oscar Shapiro |
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General manager of company.
He is an agreeable, if slightly gruff, man. He is always looking for
an angle to make money.
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Rick Fleenor |
| Bobby Pepper |
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Choreographer and lead dancer of
the show-within-a-show.
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Chris Williams |
| Detective
O'Ferrell |
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Greg Garner |
| Jessica Cranshaw |
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A fading Hollywood star. She
plays a terrible singer and actress who stars in show-within-a-show.
She gets murdered on opening night.
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Sallie Daugherty |
| Randy |
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Michael Barnes |
| Harv |
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John Perry |
| Ensemble |
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Male and female singers to portray the show-within-a-show. |
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Lindsey
Duvall
Megan Green
Brittany
Javins
Jeanne
Matras
Toni Pilato
Joanna
Radow
Caroline
Chamness Rainey |
Production
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Original Broadway Production:
Libretto by Rupert Holmes; Lyrics and Music by John Kander and Fred Ebb with
Rupert Holmes; Original Book and Concept by Peter Stone.
For the Guild: Direction by Nina
Pasinetti; Musical Direction by Bobby Hodges; Technical Direction by Tom
Pasinetti; Piano Accompaniment by Melody Rugel-Bias.
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