#1
Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:18pm
???
If a show has no curtain... does that mean there will be only one set (meaning there will be no change in scenery)
#2
Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:19pm
It means it has no curtain.
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#3
Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:21pm
Ummm... no. Why would you think that?
Billy Elliot has no curtain (sort of) and the set changes.
Billy Elliot has no curtain (sort of) and the set changes.
#4
Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:26pm
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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#5
Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:27pm
The absence of a curtain doesn't mean anything...
#6
Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:28pm
Not necessarily, God of Carnage DOES have a curtain and there is no set change. Blithe Spirit has a curtain again no set change. Didn't the original production of Sweeney Todd not have a curtain? Sunday in the Park with George (revival) had no curtain, and it had changes.
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#7
Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:30pm
"Blithe Spirit has a curtain again no set change."
Well it doesn't have a big set change but it does have a lot of minor ones.
Well it doesn't have a big set change but it does have a lot of minor ones.
#8
Posted: 5/21/09 at 11:53pm
The location does not change.
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#9
Posted: 5/22/09 at 1:53am
Broadway sets tend to be automated, the curtain doesn't need to close for a set change.
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#10
Posted: 5/22/09 at 3:20am
Several shows now use a painted scrim instead of a curtain.
I love 9 to 5's "curtain."
I love 9 to 5's "curtain."
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#11
Posted: 5/22/09 at 8:45am
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has no curtain and we know how simple, plain and minimalistic that show's set design is. 
#12
Posted: 5/22/09 at 8:56am
CapnHook, oh me too! I want to run through it lol
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#13
Posted: 5/22/09 at 11:32am
It means the show is poor and will be closing soon.
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#14
Posted: 5/22/09 at 12:26pm
Didn't Sweeney have a curtain of sorts -- a huge painting representing classes in London society of the period?
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#15
Posted: 5/22/09 at 7:01pm
Yeah, Hal Prince's staging of SWEENEY had a painting hanging down called The Hive that divided up all of the social castes at the time. It didn't cover the whole stage, but (at least on DVD) it served as a kind of show curtain. Two men yanked it down when the first piercing whistle happens in the prelude.
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#16
Posted: 5/22/09 at 7:22pm
OUR TOWN doesn't have a curtain yet the locations change several times throughout te production.
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#17
Posted: 5/22/09 at 7:35pm
Does the red curtain that closes Act I in Phantom stay throughout intermission and open Act II? I can't remember.
#18
Posted: 5/22/09 at 8:50pm
It's ripped to shreds by mechanical animals.
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#19
Posted: 5/22/09 at 9:32pm
I dont remember any of the Christines ripping a curtain to shreds...
#20
Posted: 5/22/09 at 9:43pm
Does it have to be clarified when a post is sarcastic?!
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#21
Posted: 5/22/09 at 9:47pm
Did it occur to YOU that I got the joke and was joking as well, refering to the nature of the role of Christine?
#22
Posted: 5/22/09 at 11:09pm
IN THE HEIGHTS doesn't have a curtain, but a black scrim comes down after the Act One Finale.
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#23
Posted: 5/23/09 at 4:29am
That is a black CURTAIN, not a black scrim.
#24
Posted: 5/23/09 at 10:59am
"It means the show is poor and will be closing soon."
Yeah - like Billy Elliot. Like Phantom, it doesn't have any scenery changes either.
Yeah - like Billy Elliot. Like Phantom, it doesn't have any scenery changes either.
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#25
Posted: 5/23/09 at 3:18pm
Did Is He Dead have a curtain at the beginning of the first act? I know it had to have one to change the set for the second act. but was there one at the top of the show?
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