Curtains: The Musical
Opening March 20 at the Azienda Theater, Chalmette, Louisiana
A hilarious murder-mystery musical is opening in St. Bernard Parish — and we couldn't be prouder to be part of it.
Curtains follows a theater company thrown into chaos when their leading lady suddenly dies on opening night. Everyone's a suspect. The detective is a theater buff. The show must go on — if anyone survives long enough to take a bow.
Book by Rupert Holmes. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Original Book and Concept by Peter Stone. Additional Lyrics by John Kander and Rupert Holmes. This is the team that gave you Chicago and Cabaret — and Curtains is their love letter to the backstage musical, wrapped in a whodunit.
Lead Cast:
- Darel Poche as Frank Cioffi
- Destinie Southerland as Georgia Hendricks
- Roxanne Gray & Virginia Borne as Carmen Bernstein
- Arianna D'Antonio as Niki Harris
- Isabella Rodi & Virginia Borne as Bambi Bernet
- Charles Reaves as Christopher Belling
- A.J. Guillot as Sidney Bernstein
- Roshard Hooper as Aaron Fox
- Michael Chandler as Bobby Pepper
- David Hinton as Oscar Shapiro
- Elijah Geeting as Daryl Grady
The Company:
- Costume Design: Mary Collins, Destinie Southerland
- Choreography: Darlene Stofira, Mary Collins
- Lighting Design: Emma Massengale Curole
- Music Director: E. Daniel Rubio
- Sound Design: John Collins
- Stage Manager / Seamstress: Melanie Routt
- Stagehands: Declan & Finn Routt
- Additional Support: Charlie Wall
Community theater is where the American musical lives. Not on Broadway — Broadway is the showcase. Community theater is the heartbeat. It's where a kid walks into a rehearsal room for the first time and discovers that the stage is the only place in the world that makes complete sense. It's where a retired schoolteacher sings a Kander and Ebb number and remembers what it feels like to be heard. It's where the magic starts.
This company at the Azienda Theater is doing that work — keeping live theater alive in Chalmette, in St. Bernard Parish, in a community that knows something about resilience and about coming back stronger.
Performances:
- Weekend 1: March 20, 21, 22
- Weekend 2: March 27, 28, 29
- Venue: Azienda Theater, Chalmette, LA
- Tickets: $15
Get tickets: cur8.com/14395/project/137468
Go see this show. Support your local theater. The curtain goes up, the lights go down, and for two hours, a room full of strangers holds its breath together. That's the deal. That's always been the deal.
— Raoul Pène du Bois & John Murray Anderson