Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman have been cast in the lead roles of the Broadway smash hit, Curtains, at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas. Kim Zimmer plays Carmen Berstein, the brassy Broadway producer of a play, and Robert Newman stars as crime-solving sleuth, Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, who is investigating the murder of the leading actress on opening night. As Robert stated in an interview with Soap Opera Digest, "It's kind of a musical within a musical and a murder mystery. A big musical is in its final weeks in Boston before heading to Broadway and the leading lady that everybody hates gets murdered on stage. Everyone in the show is a suspect."
Both Zimmer and Newman were excited to finally have the opportunity to work together on stage, after the many years that they portrayed super couple, Reva Shayne and Joshua Lewis on Guiding Light. Robert exclaimed to Soap Opera Digest, "I think it's going to be great. We'll have a couple of lovely moments together in the show." Kim added, "We're excited about that. I just did a fitting, so it's official!"
Kim Zimmer is a current cast member of One Life to Live as Echo DiSavoy, who has been the catalyst of a front-running storyline that has involved her newly found son, Rex, and the father of her son, Clint Buchanan. Echo has also been the cause of the relationship woes between Viki and Charlie Banks and has been constantly -- and humorously -- battling it out with Dorian Lord. After Kim's first brief stint as Echo DiSavoy on One Life to Live in 1983, Kim moved on to Guiding Light to launch her very successful run of 27 years as Reva Shayne. Kim reprised her role as Echo on One Life to Live on October 1, 2010.
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Zimmer recently wrapped a month-long off-Broadway run in the stage play Love, Loss, and What I Wore.
Curtains debuts at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston on March 29 and runs through April 10. The production then travels to the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, from April 27 through May 22. Tickets can be purchased through www.tuts.com for the Houston performances and through www.papermill.org for the run in New Jersey.
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