Is this Evita's show curtain??

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:22am

Found this on a website--was this actually used for the Hal Prince production??

Updated On: 5/15/07 at 02:22 AM

[C is for Company]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:30am

I hope not! Talk about absolutely hideous and a take-off from another curtain he used that represented a caste of the power structure in a region at a given time (Sweeney Todd)

[*thinkpink18*]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:32am

It's rather garish looking. Updated On: 5/15/07 at 02:32 AM

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:34am

I can't decide if I hate it or kinda like it--it definetly is garrish and oh so 70s.

The site I got it from builds sets for Broadway--this was (from what I can tell) built for the recent Troika tour of the Hal Prince version of Evita but I assume if it was used it was used in the original Broadway version and the guy credited--Tim O'Brian (did he design any other major shows?) did do the sets

[courtnyj]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:43am

Yikes! It certainly sets a mood.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:49am

wtf

[toomeytwopiece]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:19am

it looks like something out of a 1970s or 1980s comic book

[EugLoven]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:41am

I remember seeing something vaguely SIMILAR in design and art-style to that when I saw the National Tour of EVITA when it stopped by San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre March 2005. However, the colors were all yellows, oranges, whites, and browns. And had more "poor" people along the bottom and edges. But definitely had that look to it... just not as garish and colorful.

[Justin D]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:22am

It is, but probably not the current one, that pic has been around on that site for a LONG TIME.

[kasim]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:25am

This ISNT the one from the london show if thats what you are asking.

I am sure i would have remembered somethng that hideous.

[morosco]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:25am

I don't remember if that't the show curtain I saw but I do remember a tour that had a curtain similar to that. I also remember that the lighting on the show curtain was very dim and textured with gobos. So the the drop might not appear as garish in performance under the stage lighting as it does in the rendering.
Updated On: 5/15/07 at 09:25 AM

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:28am

It doesn't say its the show curtain...it says its just a drop. At least I hope its not a curtain.

Akiva

[morosco]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:42am

Here's another Evita show curtain said to be from the "1979 American Premiere".
EVITA International

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:44am

The first picture is what I remember the drop being for the national tour.

~Steven

[chino]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:50am

It looks like a "Street Fighter" poster.

Really morbid...

[C is for Company]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:01am

It does Chino!

Is that M. Bison at the top, Dalsheim in the middle and Sagat somewhere near the bottom? Because if so, they need to re-organize their Street Fighter hierarchy there. Oh and consider getting a drop that doesn't look so dreadful.

And exactly what are on the sides of that running away there? They look like ninjas. Did they really swipe this out of a videogame and pass it off as Evita in some odd turn of events?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:45am

That is the show drop that was used for the recent troika national tour save for a few revisions. I can't speak for any other production though as I did not see them.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:46am

Yes, Street Fighter is what I immediately thought of when I saw it in the theatre.
Street Fighter: The Musical! Yeah! Haha.

~Steven
Updated On: 5/15/07 at 10:46 AM

[raphael06]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:51am

This IS what was used and it looked ridiculous.

Posted: 5/15/07 at 6:21pm

In this case what would be the difference between a drop and show curtain?

I wish there was a gallery of all the past major show curtains... Anyway Torika's tour even got Hal Prince to come in and resupervise the staging--surely they wouldn't use this curtain if it wasn't the original... or would they....

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:05pm

It's the show curtain I saw, when I saw the tour not too long ago. I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be a someone because it sorta looks like a face and shoulders.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:28pm

That was used in the recent national tour.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:41pm

My God, that is hideous.

[ElFantasma14]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:46pm

Oh, you're right, RentBoy86. It does sort of look like someone's head and shoulders. Never noticed that before.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:49pm

It must of looked totally different on stage. I don't remember it being so garish. I saw the tour, about 4 row's back just off center, and I don't remember it hurting my eyes. It's like a bad Dali painting.