Show Curtains — Page 21

#501

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Posted: 1/1/10 at 4:37pm

I love the sister act curtain.When the show stars the curtain drops. It looks cool

Complete with a shot of an angels backside

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#502

Show Curtains

Posted: 1/1/10 at 4:56pm

What are the curtains for Fela and A Little Night Music?

#503

Show Curtains

Posted: 1/1/10 at 5:01pm

jacobsnchz, The curtain in the Addams Family is really only used in a complex way in the shows first 20 minutes to a half hour. The curtain seems to shift and makes these little rooms with the curtains. Like it creates a box in downstage right while Morticia is feeding the plant. It really gives it the vaudeville feel. For me, it made it seem like it was like Gregory Maguire describes the Great Time Dragon Clock in his book, Wicked. How there are like little windows that open around the wagon so you can see what different people are doing. I don't know if I just made any sense :/

#504

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Posted: 1/1/10 at 7:59pm

The Addams Family curtain looks like a regular house curtain, but is mechanized/designed to shift a lot like BroadwayBound115 described. Any part of the curtain can shift up/down to frame a scene. (and it serves an entertaining purpose in the opening...)

PS My profile image is the view of the curtain preshow from the partial view rush box.

Updated On: 1/1/10 at 07:59 PM

#505

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Posted: 1/1/10 at 8:06pm

Is it like the frames of the stage of the Legally Blonde tour? The edges of the proscenium moved all around to make little areas where the actors played their scenes.

#506

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Posted: 1/1/10 at 9:42pm

Basically...except it's the entire curtain that moves. It's a very lush framing...vaudevillian.

#507

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Posted: 1/2/10 at 7:45am

Whats the one for the Phantom of the opera? Just a red one
Oh and ragtime? Does it have one

Theres just something about the WWRY curtain I really like.


The Sound Of Music

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#508

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Posted: 1/2/10 at 7:53am

The Ragtime revival just uses a red house curtain.

#509

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Posted: 1/2/10 at 2:11pm

I really like The Sound of Music curtain. The Annie national tour just uses the house curtain with no lights on it or anything. It is such a shame because I love the colorful comic book set design.

#510

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Posted: 1/2/10 at 6:09pm

For the person who asked about The Phantom of the Opera, the Broadway production has two different set ups. There's the setting for the prologue at the top of the first act and then a plain red curtain used through intermission and into the second.

Curtain for Act I:


Curtain for Act II:

#511

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Posted: 1/2/10 at 8:17pm

Ragtime: http://www.flickr.com/photos/toughlovenyc/4138095548/

#512

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Posted: 1/3/10 at 12:41pm

I like the Ragtime curtain, but I wonder why the show doesn't have its own curtain...

#513

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Posted: 1/3/10 at 3:03pm

what is WWRY

#514

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Posted: 1/3/10 at 3:12pm

We Will Rock You

#515

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Posted: 1/4/10 at 3:22pm

I like the way sister act uses a curtain at the start, a different one for the intermission and none after the show is over.

Does anyone have fiddler on the roof, auugust osage county or Oklahoma?

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#516

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Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:49pm

I don't know about the other two but I do know that August never had a curtain for either of its houses on Broadway.

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#517

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Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:02pm

Oklahoma had like a blue sky with clouds painted on it and then when the overture segued into the melody from the title song, they projected the logo of the show onto the curtain.

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#518

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Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:15pm

Winston, if you are talking about "August: Osage County. It didn't have one when I saw it at the Imperial and it doesn't have one on the tour.

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Updated On: 7/30/10 at 05:15 PM

#519

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Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:43pm

I know. I saw the show a few times and therefor saw it at both the Imperial and The Music Box, and at both theatres there was no curtain for the show.

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#520

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Posted: 2/27/10 at 10:57am

Anyone have a pic of the pre show set up for time stands still?

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#521

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Posted: 4/16/10 at 12:00am

bump!

#522

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Posted: 6/6/10 at 4:24pm

BUMP!
Anyone have: MEMPHIS, SPAMALOT or a good picture of the addams fmily curtain?

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#523

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Posted: 6/6/10 at 4:45pm

Updated On: 6/6/10 at 04:45 PM

#524

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Posted: 6/6/10 at 4:49pm

I would have taken one at Memphis, but one of ushers was on a witch hunt.

West Side Story:

#525

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Posted: 6/6/10 at 4:59pm

Nightmare Alley at the Geffen Playhouse



South Pacific (Tour, Los Angeles)

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