Show Curtains
Show Curtains
#0Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:20am
When I go to the theatre I love to look at the show curtains. I think it really sets the mood before the show starts. Do you have a favorite?
Mine are:
The King and I (1996 Revival)
Aida
Gypsy (Bernadette Peters)
Mamma Mia!
Hairspray
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#1re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:23amI like Beauty and The Beast n Wicked's maybe a map but its really cool looking!
#2re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:32amHairspray...definately Hairspray....
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PennyLou
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/03
#3re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:35amHairspray's is awsome and I like the one at all shook up becasue it shows you the town the show is in.
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#4re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:36amI also love how in London, those hot curtains that are brown and say "Fire Curtain" are dropped during intermission...
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#5re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:54amYeah, i know what ya mean. I liked Beauty and the Beasts...I thought Mamma Mia's was pretty cool too. I saw the touring company of Music Man a year or two ago and thought it had a pretty cool one too. What does Hairsprays look like?
#6re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:55am
It is a big, ruffled hot pink curtain....lemme look for a pic
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#7re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:57amI <3 Hairspray's curtain! AND the London curtains!
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#8re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 1:01am
I heart the new "La Cage" curtain. Yes, it's fluffy and hot pink...but whatever.
I also liked the curtain for the "Into the Woods" revival that was dropped at intermission, with all of the books on it.
I like the "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" curtain...it really sets the mood.
"Spamalot" has a great curtain, too.
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Updated On: 3/27/05 at 01:01 AM
#9re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 1:02am
Aiiiiiiiiiiiiida. I have a big photo of the curtain as my laptop's desktop background.
I also like Millie's, with the defintion of "modern." 
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#10re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 1:47amanyone know any links to any of these show curtains? I would love to see them, since i don't get to NYC ever. Either post or PM me. Thanks.
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#11re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:12ami remember liking aida's when i saw it though now i can't remember it. and la cage's was fabulous!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:22am
I remember thinking Aida's was meh when i first saw it
but whatever
#14re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:23amAck, sorry that picture's so big. Someone let me know if I need to take it down.
JakeB
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#15re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 4:47amDefinitely Thoroughly Modern Millie, very simplistic but effective.
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#16re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:44am
THE KING AND I (revival)
HAIRSPRAY
WICKED (using the map was a excellent idea)
AIDA (The Eye Of Horus which is an ancient Egyptian symbol, good idea)
And even THE LION KING - though the curtain itself wasn't anything special to look at, but the cutting of the bottom edge giving the impression of the horizon and the two other similar curtains behind it leading up to the sunrise...
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#17re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:12ami am going with Wicked because most people don't know the towns in Oz and since they mention say Kiamo Ko people know where it is if they read the curtain or the walls in tthe lobby (those are the maps right?) I love the Wicked set
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#18re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:56amI was just talking to Emcee about how I have a thing for show curtains. I really don't have a favorite. I will always remember my first production's show curtain (it technically wasn't a curtain)...Footloose. I loved it!
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stagestar130
Stand-by Joined: 1/24/05
#19re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:04amI've always loved Hairspray's curtain. But they are all amazing in their own ways.
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#20re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:16am
Hairspray's is so awesome
Wicked's is amazing too, combined with the dragon and the stuff around the set. I like Millie's too, and the current King And I tour.
#21re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:24am
I love show curtains too.
Hairspray's is stunning.
I love Aida's. It was perfect how the eye just seemed to pop with the special lighting.
The map at Wicked with the green rotating gobo is pretty cool.
But I have to say I also love coming into a theatre and seeing the first scene set, such as in POTO or most straight plays and regional theatres. It's nice to be able to drink in the details that the designer agonized over.
Hamlet's father.
#22re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:28amthe current little shop curtain is cool with the logo that lights up and all... that was neat.
#23re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 11:06amI loved the Broadway revival of Sound of Music. It was a cool curtain and it had a HUGE snow globee..yes..a SNOW GLOBE actually IN the curatin..very cool
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#24re: Show Curtains
Posted: 3/27/05 at 11:17am
This is the Hairspray curtain being fabricated in the shop....
"Responding to David Rockwell's design of a "Flip" Main Curtain for Hairspray on Broadway, I. Weiss hand-stitched 27,000' of red silicon tubing in 350 pieces to a velour Austrian Curtain. The Austrian was attached to a steel frame to help hold its shape and support the enormous weight of the entire show curtain - altogether 2,250 lbs."
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