Together Again!

It’s been nearly two years since GUIDING LIGHT stars Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer taped their final scenes as Josh and Reva, but the talented actors have been reunited on the stage in the murder-mystery musical Curtains! A co-production between Houston’s Theatre Under The Stars and The Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey, the cast of Curtains wrapped up their Texas performances earlier this month and make their Garden State debut on Wednesday, April 27.

Soaps In Depth caught up with Zimmer and Newman as they rehearsed the musical-within-a-musical, which follows the unraveling of a Boston theater company on opening night after the leading lady is murdered. Newman stars as Det. Frank Cioffi, who is called in to solve the crime, and Zimmer (now ONE LIFE TO LIVE’s Echo) is the show’s brassy producer, Carmen. “It’s got all that’s involved backstage of putting on a Broadway show,” shares Zimmer. “It’s an awful show because the star is dreadful. She ends up being murdered, so the beautiful young ingénue has to step into the role, and she’s brilliant. But murders keep happening. Robert plays the detective who comes in, who’s also a frustrated actor who would love nothing more than to be a part of the Broadway show.”