More than two years after Fred Ebb died, the legendary team of Kander & Ebb returned to Broadway with the original musical comedy Curtains.
The New Yorker, October 3, 1925 P. 1 John Murray Anderson will direct 36 tabloid musi-comedy curtain-raisers for new Famous Players-Lasky movie theatres.
It had all the great British comedy tropes: snobbery, curtain-twitching, eccentric English customs.
A minimalist rat trap that stands as one of TV's great offhand achievements, 328 Chauncy Street seemed by turns cozy and gloomy, an open, uncluttered arena for kitchen-sink comedy (a tatty little curtain barely hiding the plumbing).
More befitting the blackout of a comedy sketch than a curtain line for a grownup play, the line gets a laugh from an audience filled with grown ups, though a number of teenagers were observed grimacing.
Mayall and Edmondson's writing produced a quotable comedy that cleverly lifted the curtain on how a booming society treats its most vulnerable: shove them in a doss house, let them eat lard.
"The Front Page" ends on one of the great curtain lines of modern comedy.
Nicolas Lancret, The falling curtain or The Actors of the Italian Comedy or The Italian Theatre, oil on wood, Paris, musée du Louvre © RMN-GP (musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle.
STAMFORD Curtain Call, The Dressing Room Theater "The Sunshine Boys," comedy by Neil Simon.
When the final curtain fell upon what was called a Summer musical comedy, David H. Wallace was heard to observe "It isn't the heat, it's the bromidity".
STAMFORD Curtain Call, The Dressing Room Theater "When We Are Married," comedy by J. B. Priestley.
