L.A. raises 'Curtains'

Variety.com: "It was in the late 1990s when he was running the Williamstown Theater Festival. Here was this large-scale musical, from the team who wrote 'Chicago' and 'Cabaret,' which seemed enormous for the Massachusetts summer fest. When he took over as artistic director of Los Angeles' Center Theater Group in 2005, he started thinking about that still-unproduced tuner -- a murder-mystery set backstage at a musical theater."