It's 'Curtain' for these players

March 05, 2017 11:00 pm • Last Updated: March 06, 2017 8:21 am

Lauren Mitchell, Maria Donato, and Eliza Learned are “In the Same Boat” — a number from the show-within-the-show in Curtains. (Andrea Stanton Photography)

Old Lyme Players’ production of “Curtains” was performed March 2-5 at Lyme–Old Lyme High School in Old Lyme.

The play took the audience back to 1959, and opening night at Boston’s Colonial Theatre for Robbin’ Hood! — the flawed show-within-the-show at the center of “Curtains.”

Robbin’ Hood’s untalented leading lady has been murdered, and the entire company is under suspicion.

“Curtains” opened on Broadway in 2007, starring David Hyde Pierce (Frasier, Spamalot) as Cioffi, for which he won the Tony Award for best actor in a musical.

It ran for more than 500 performances.

The Old Lyme Players’ production was directed by LOLHS teacher James Motes, with choreography by Bethany Haslam (director of the Dance Center of Old Lyme) and orchestral direction by LOLHS band teacher Jacob Wilson.

The cast featured 40 LOLHS students, with another 20 students involved in the production’s stage crew and pit orchestra.

Producers of the show-within-the-show Sean Spina and Callie Kotzan, and songwriting team Maria Donato and Dan Cole, wonder “What Kind of Man” would want to be theater critic. (Andrea Stanton Photography)

The cast of “Curtains” includes 40 Lyme–Old Lyme High School students. Another 20 students are involved in crew, pit orchestra, and production. (Andrea Stanton Photography)

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