It's Curtains for Broadway Season As Tonys Honor Year's Best Performers

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A thousand faces turn toward the spotlight where David Hyde Pierce sings as if his life depends on it. It is a most unusual sight -almost every one of those faces is smiling.

Pierce, best known as the fussy Niles Crane on "Frasier," stars in Broadway's "Curtains," for which he is nominated for a Tony Award. This Kander and Ebb musical about a stage-struck detective (Pierce) who investigates murders at a traveling show, is the sort of production that made Broadway. It's impossible to watch Pierce or fellow nominees Debra Monk and Karen Ziemba singing and dancing and be anything other than happy.

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It's Curtains for Broadway Season As Tonys Honor Year's Best Performers

The morning after the Tony nominations were announced, Pierce, natty in a navy suit, says, "It is a rare thing, and I think people are sometimes surprised when they come to the show. It ...

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