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Curtains review " the arresting case of Kander and Ebb's musical whodunnit by Mark Lawson

Wyndham's, LondonJason Manford is a charming, showtune-obsessed homicide cop in this fun companion to Chicago and Cabaret Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975) became Broadway and West End perennials and prize-strewn movies for composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb. But Curtains (2006) has struggled. Ebb died before completion and Rupert Holmes helped out, with Kander unusually writing some songs alone. There are th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM on December 18, 2019

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