What's a scrim?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
It's a drop that can be made to appear solid, translucent, or transparent with different lighting combinations. The Paper Mill Ragtime uses one throughout in the background.
Updated On: 7/25/05 at 03:22 PM
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Sunday in the Park with George used one, true?
Les Mis for everything.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
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for the map, and then the entrance into the scene from there.
Side Show. The twins did a seducing dance behind it, and it was very effective.
Sunday in the Park with George used scrims throughout to show George working on the painting. The first act ends with the actors forming the painting and scrim is lowered in front of it, desolving up to a solid.
1776 uses a scrim at the end of the show, usually with either a painting of the famous signing, or the signatures at the bottom or both.
Brigadoon usually is done with a scrim to show the town fading up and disappearing. Also for the scene in New York toward the end, when Tommy keeps remembering what he left behind.
Into the Woods (OBC) used a scrim several times: At the beginning with the three houses. The curtain "fades to clear" before it is raised. When Cinderella visits the tree to make her wish, a scrim is used inside it to reveal her mother's ghost. When Red Riding Hood visits Grandma's house, the interior is shown through a scrim, etc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
Re: Phantom... Not for the mirror. That was "ghost glass." Same thing they use in Wicked for Elphaba to show up at her sister's place in Act II. It works using the same principle as a scrim curtain though. Light affects what is seen and not seen. But it's made of glass.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
FOSSE in the beginning. It rised during "Life is just a bowl of cherries".
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. "Little Lotte...", before the lights go on to reveal Christine's father's grave.
I've seen productions of Chicago that used one before Cell Block Tango.
"I've seen productions of Chicago that used one before Cell Block Tango." ~ Hairspraydoll
That would not be the current revival version though.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
Isn't DRS's show curtain a scrim? I seem to remember the stage being lit while the curtain was still down.
~Jessica
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