NEW YORK -- "Curtains," Kander and Ebb's whodunit musical, will bring down its own final curtain in June.

The show will close June 29 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre after playing 511 performances and 26 previews, producer Roger Berlind announced last week.

"Curtains" was one of the last collaborations between composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, who wrote the scores for such musicals as "Cabaret," "Chicago" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Ebb died in 2004.

The murder-mystery musical stars David Hyde Pierce as a detective called in to investigate the murder of a Broadway star who dies during the curtain call of her troubled new show on its opening night in Boston. He won a Tony Award for his performance.

-- The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- "The 39 Steps," a cheeky stage spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 spy thriller, is extending its Broadway stay.

The show has been a hit for the Roundabout Theatre Company at its American Airlines Theatre, but it needs to make way for the nonprofit theater's next attraction, a revival of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," which starts performances there April 12.

"The 39 Steps" will move to the Cort Theatre for performances beginning April 29 and officially reopen May 8, producer Bob Boyett announced last week. It will give its final performance at the American Airlines Theatre March 29. All tickets for its first preview at the Cort will be $39.

-- The Associated Press