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Show Curtains
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#352Show Curtains
Posted: 1/24/09 at 4:30pmI wish they had expanded Shrek's set into the audience. Like, I wish the swamp motif had crawled over into the boxes and the upper part of the proscenium. It just seems like a touring show otherwise.
#353Show Curtains
Posted: 1/24/09 at 5:23pm
Hairspray
Shrek
La Cage aux Folles
Mary Poppins
Are my favourite curtains.
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
ohjustjake
Leading Actor Joined: 4/18/06
#355Show Curtains
Posted: 1/25/09 at 12:54amI actually really like Shrek's show curtain a lot. I haven't seen a show use an actual curtain in awhile, it's usually some kind of logo. This is more of a drape, which is nice to see again, even if it is green haha.
memphreblues
Chorus Member Joined: 1/7/08
#356Show Curtains
Posted: 1/25/09 at 5:19pm
Does Avenue Q have a curtain? And did Spring Awakening? I'm guessing no, because of the onstage seating? I've seen them both, but I'm completely blanking...
I always loved Hairspray's. Then again, there's something to be said for not having a curtain. Walking into Xanadu and just seeing the set certainly got me excited for the show!
#357Show Curtains
Posted: 1/25/09 at 5:29pmNeither Q nor Spring have curtains.
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster.
"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#358Show Curtains
Posted: 1/25/09 at 5:34pm
The London production of Avenue Q does have a curtain though.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#359Show Curtains
Posted: 1/25/09 at 8:06pmIs that London theater has small as it looks? I like it. So quaint.
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#360Show Curtains
Posted: 1/25/09 at 8:57pmIt's slightly bigger than the Golden (886 seats compared to 805), but it has 4 levels.
wizard2joe
Featured Actor Joined: 11/20/08
#361Show Curtains
Posted: 1/26/09 at 12:36am
i still cant believe that dis thread was on her since
2006 it just amazes me
lol (random)
I like the wicked curtains
& mama mia curtains
and oh yea
i went to this one theatre that had a curtain that was like an aqua color it was cool
#362Show Curtains
Posted: 2/4/09 at 7:24amanyone have pics of the 9 to 5 crtain
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#363Show Curtains
Posted: 2/4/09 at 7:24amanyone have pics of the 9 to 5 crtain
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#364Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 7:14amanyone have pics of the wizard of oz on tour one or do they know what it looks like
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#365Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 11:49am
My current favorite is the Mary Poppins curtain. It's so elegant and beautiful, yet fun and simple. Well, actually, the whole set is breath-taking...
Also, for all shows that use a scrim as their curtain, there has to be another plain white(?) curtain behind it. For Mary Poppins (I don't think they had it in London) along the bottom of the secondary curtain there is a grass pattern that shows through. It's definitely a cool touch, and they use it in other parts of the show- the first thing I can think of is when Bert spells out Welcome for Mary...
#366Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:04pm
KirbyCat-
Anytime I've done a show with a scrim show curtain there has always been a "blackout" curtain on the next fly line behind it. This way there can be lights on behind it for cast and crew to get set up behind it before the show, at intermission, during the show, etc.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#367Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:12pmThat's what I thought! See, I worked on a show once, where our curtain was a scrim, but they were too cheap to get a blackout curtain, so when the house was open, we could not go on that stage at all... But anyways, I always seem to be the only one sitting at a show that notices the blackout curtain go down about a second behind the scrim. Is there an actual reason that they come down at different times?
#368Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:32pmLove show curtains
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#369Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:55pmI liked the one for Boeing-Boeing and how you'd head an airplane flying every couple of minutes or so. Wish I would have gotten a pic!
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#371Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 5:01pmI love the Avenue Q curtain they should use on tour and on Broadway.
#372Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 5:17pmMe too. A great curtain.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#373Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 6:32pm
Does anyone know why they use a curtain only in the London version?
I may be wrong, but if they change something in an international production, don't producers usually update every other production to match it?
#374Show Curtains
Posted: 2/8/09 at 6:42pm^^ Probably because Londoners may not know what Avenue A and B are. Maybe just to help them out a little.
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