Is this Evita's show curtain??
Is this Evita's show curtain??
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Joined: 12/31/69
#1Is 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#2re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:30amI 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)
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#2re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:32amIt's rather garish looking. Updated On: 5/15/07 at 02:32 AM
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Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
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
#5re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:49amwtf
toomeytwopiece
Featured Actor Joined: 1/30/06
#6re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:19amit looks like something out of a 1970s or 1980s comic book
#7re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:41amI 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.
#8re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:22amIt is, but probably not the current one, that pic has been around on that site for a LONG TIME.
#9re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#10re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#11re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#12re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:42am
Here's another Evita show curtain said to be from the "1979 American Premiere".
EVITA International
#13re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:44am
The first picture is what I remember the drop being for the national tour.
~Steven
#14re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:50am
It looks like a "Street Fighter" poster.
Really morbid...
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#15re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
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?
#16re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:45amThat 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.
#17re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
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
#18re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:51amThis IS what was used and it looked ridiculous.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#20re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:05pmIt'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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#21re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:28pmThat was used in the recent national tour.
#22re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:41pmMy God, that is hideous.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
ElFantasma14
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/06
#23re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:46pmOh, you're right, RentBoy86. It does sort of look like someone's head and shoulders. Never noticed that before.
#24re: Is this Evita's show curtain??
Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:49pmIt 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.
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