Curtains March 26, 2009

'Curtains,' a new musical comedy featuring one of the last scores from John Kander and Fred Ebb ('Cabaret,' 'Chicago'), unfolds backstage at Boston's Colonial Theatre in 1959, where a new musical could be a Broadway smash, were it not for the presence of its talent-free leading lady. When the hapless star dies on opening night during her curtain call, a stage-struck detective arrives on the scene to conduct an investigation.