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Curtains The Musical
When: Thursday 1st November 2012 -> Saturday 3rd November 2012
Where: St Teilo's Church in Wales High School, Llanedeyrn Road, Penylan, Cardiff
Splott Amateur Operatic Society Presents the Welsh Premier of 'Curtains'.
Book by Rupert Holmes
Original book and concept by Peter Stone
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Additional lyrics by John Kander and Ruper Holmes
Performing at
St. Teilo’s Church in Wales High School, Llanedeyrn
Road, Penylan, Cardiff on
Thursday 1st November 2012, 7:15pm
Friday 2nd November 2012, 7:15pm
Saturday 3rd November 2012, 2:15pm
Box Office: 029 20 213 032
Ticket prices: £7 adult; £6 concessions
Buses: No.57 & No.58
Onsite car parking available
Robbin' Hood of the Old West, a bad Western adaptation of the Robin Hood story is reaching its conclusion. The egregiously untalented leading lady, Jessica Cranshaw is a triple threat: she can't sing, act, or dance (or remember when to say her lines). To the relief of everyone, she is murdered during her opening night curtain call. The entire company comes under suspicion, and Lt. Frank Cioffi of the Boston Police Department is called in to solve the homicide. Believing that the perpetrator is still in the building, he sequesters it.
The Suspects include the hard-bitten lady producer, Carmen Bernstein; her husband, Sidney; the show's flamboyant director Christopher Belling; divorced songwriting team Aaron Fox and Georgia Hendricks; Stage Manager Johnny Harmon; choreographer/leading man Bobby Pepper, ingénue Niki Harris, and ambitious chorine Bambi Bernét.
The company use its spare time to attempt to fix the show's problems. Niki, Ms. Cranshaw's understudy, is passed up for the leading role in favour of Georgia, who is encouraged to take the role despite the protests of Aaron, who has fallen in love with her again. Cioffi, a theatre fan and amateur actor, becomes more involved with saving the show than solving the case. Cioffi finds himself falling for Niki, and she seems to return his affection, so he hopes she's not the murderer. Meanwhile, secrets are surfacing, the production numbers in Robbin' Hood are rewritten, rehearsed and rewritten again, and the body count is rising. Can Cioffi solve the case, save the show, and get the girl before the curtain rises without getting offed himself? This is a musical, after all!