Show Curtains
#725Show Curtains
Posted: 3/16/15 at 5:22pmI've always liked the Wicked curtain. There's something iconic about the map of Oz with the Emerald City glimmering in the middle.
#726Show Curtains
Posted: 3/16/15 at 5:23pmI know. I was saying that I don't typically like show curtains as I find them tacky. My favorite curtain is the house curtain at the War Memorial Opera House. Most ballets and operas at the house use it. I can't recall any performances that used their own curtain.
#727Show Curtains
Posted: 3/16/15 at 5:28pm

I just recently found this image of the original show curtain for THE GOLDEN APPLE which i thought was beautifully striking.
#729Show Curtains
Posted: 6/5/15 at 12:51am
Some classics:
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
SWEENEY TODD
ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
GRAND HOTEL
#730Show Curtains
Posted: 3/12/17 at 1:11am
WAR PAINT
#731Show Curtains
Posted: 3/12/17 at 1:23am
SUNSET BOULEVARD
bightstar514
Swing Joined: 10/11/16
#733Show Curtains
Posted: 3/12/17 at 1:41am
Are there really only two shows with a pre show curtain this season? So far.
#734Show Curtains
Posted: 3/12/17 at 1:49am
Amelie has one. And we have a lot of shows yet to start previews that will probably have one as well.
#735Show Curtains
Posted: 3/12/17 at 10:58am
Miss Saigon kind of has one. It appears to pull off in differnt directions when the show starts, if I remember correctly. It is also kind of dark.
LxGstv
Broadway Star Joined: 11/22/16
#736Show Curtains
Posted: 3/12/17 at 12:38pm
Robbie2 said: "
SUNSET BOULEVARD
"
This one is slightly misleading, I get that the thread's name is show curtains, but it was talking about pre-show to set the mood... this curtain only drops for intermission and it doesn't even stays down for long... when I returned from the bathroom it was gone... and the pre-show curtain doesn't have anything on it...
#737Show Curtains
Posted: 3/13/17 at 2:48pm
LxGstv said: "Robbie2 said: "
SUNSET BOULEVARD
"
This one is slightly misleading, I get that the thread's name is show curtains, but it was talking about pre-show to set the mood... this curtain only drops for intermission and it doesn't even stays down for long... when I returned from the bathroom it was gone... and the pre-show curtain doesn't have anything on it..."
Similarly, the Sunday In the Park with George revival at the Hudson opens with the orchestra onstage and no curtain, but a large print of the Seurat painting on which the show is based (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte} is dropped at the end of the first act.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
elephantseye
Stand-by Joined: 2/14/17
#738Show Curtains
Posted: 3/13/17 at 3:06pm
I know I'm late to this, but the Grand Hotel curtain is absolutely stunning.
#739Show Curtains
Posted: 3/15/17 at 11:32pm

jonah3500
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
#742Show Curtains
Posted: 3/18/17 at 8:22pm
HELLO DOLLY
#743Show Curtains
Posted: 3/18/17 at 9:53pm
WAR PAINT
#744Show Curtains
Posted: 7/13/17 at 8:36am
Bumping this! One of my favorite threads.
#745Show Curtains
Posted: 7/15/17 at 10:30pm


#746Show Curtains
Posted: 7/16/17 at 8:15pm
Love that final curtain for SUNSET!
MISS SAIGON
And while another intermission curtain it might be of interest:
#747Show Curtains
Posted: 10/18/17 at 6:34am
Been a few month since any posts here. Went through my phone this morning and found loads of pictures so here they are.
First Up - West End Musicals
42nd Street - Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Bend it Like Beckham - Phoenix Theatre
The detail in this one is gorgeous
Dreamgirls - Savoy Theatre
Next few are more "stage set ups" than "curtains"
Toxic Avenger - Arts Theatre
The Girls - Phoenix Theatre
Half a Sixpence - Noel Coward Theatre
Yank - Charing Cross Theatre
#748Show Curtains
Posted: 10/18/17 at 6:45am
Next, Broadway!
Anastasia - Broadhurst
War Paint
American Psycho - Schoenfeld
Groundhog Day - August Wilson. Act 1/Act 2

King and I - Lincoln Centre
Waitress
On the Twentieth Century - American Airlines
Hello Dolly - Shubert

Something Rotten - St. James
(one of my fave curtains!)
#749Show Curtains
Posted: 10/18/17 at 6:51am
Lastly, some plays and other musical productions
The Addams Family UK Tour - New Wimbledon Theatre
The Ferryman - Gielgud Theatre
Priscilla - Johannesburg, Teatro at Montecasino 
Labour of Love - Noel Coward Theatre
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