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RentBoy86
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re: Show Curtains#26
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:39pm
I saw the Producers recently and it had a plain black curtain. Is that how it is in NYC? I really do like show curtains, i think it def. sets the mood for the musical/play. Anyone else with pictures feel free to post, i love looking at them!
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re: Show Curtains#27
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:40pm
The tour just uses the house curtain, I believe. In Cleveland, it was orangish...and they just threw a gobo wash on it.
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re: Show Curtains#28
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:43pm
i LOVE the "RENT" curtain. It is INCREDIBLE! re: Show Curtains
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re: Show Curtains#29
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:45pm
Could someone please describe the Millie show curtain to me? On tour, it was just a red house curtain.
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re: Show Curtains#30
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:48pm
its a white screen/ curtain with the dictionary definition of the word modern written on, it was then lit around the edges with a rotating color gobo
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re: Show Curtains#31
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:51pm
Front row at Hairspray - that curtain gave me such a headache.

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re: Show Curtains#32
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:56pm
Jwei123,
There was a RENT show curtain? When I saw the show on tour, the entire set and everything was sitting on the stage before the show.
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re: Show Curtains#33
Posted: 3/27/05 at 4:06pm
hehe logan, I was making a joke, because everyone was listing their favorites, and talking about how elaborate, etc, and rent (on tour and on broadway) doesn't have one. my humor sucks


cool icon tho! :)
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re: Show Curtains#34
Posted: 3/27/05 at 4:12pm
oh, lol i thought you just meant the large ammount of smoke on the stage before the actors come out
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re: Show Curtains#35
Posted: 3/27/05 at 4:59pm
Does someone have a picture of the Millie show curtain? The tour doesn't use one.
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re: Show Curtains#36
Posted: 3/27/05 at 5:16pm
Could yall please describe the curtins! I would LOVE to hear what they look like! I've seen some of the ones listed though.

My fav.s are: Gypsy(rev.), Wicked, Millie, and Hairspray(not one of my fav.s but I like it).
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re: Show Curtains#37
Posted: 3/27/05 at 5:38pm
I don't really remember Gypsy's all that wel. However, I do remember loving the pink-ish stripes on the proscenium.

I also like Wicked's.
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re: Show Curtains#38
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:19pm
Yeah. Could someone please send me pics or links on where to get pics, because I've never been to New York and would love to see what you guys are talking about.
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re: Show Curtains#39
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:22pm
The Pillowman curtain was fairly basic (The name of the show bordered by a uneven zigzag box) but very in keeping with the feeling of the show (it seemed like a logo a warped child would draw). The lighting used on it at the begininning and endings of acts along with the incidental music set the tone for the evening.
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re: Show Curtains#40
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:27pm
Yes, could someone PLEASE post a link to a site that has pic. of the curtins!? Or could someone PLEASE PM the stuff!?
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
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re: Show Curtains#41
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:29pm
some of the best ones are still the shows that don't use curtains...

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RentBoy86
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re: Show Curtains#42
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:31pm
I know the first one is Rent, but what's the second one? Cats?
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re: Show Curtains#43
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:42pm
yeah. kinda small. I couldn't find a bigger one...
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re: Show Curtains#44
Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:45pm
ahhh RENT!
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re: Show Curtains#45
Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:44pm
Millie: re: Show Curtains
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re: Show Curtains#46
Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:24pm
I'm just wondering, when did Broadway shows start abandoning the traditional curtain and start making their own individualized curtains? What was the first show that did this?
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re: Show Curtains#47
Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:29pm
yeah, I like Wicked's curtain too, especially with the Time Dragon. And anything with an overwhelming amount of hot pink is awesome!
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re: Show Curtains#48
Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:29pm
Not every show always used a curtain...
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re: Show Curtains#49
Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:36pm
Les Miz's curtain was great.

Aida, LSOH, and Wicked.
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re: Show Curtains#50
Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:50pm
DRACULA - I loved dracula's show curtain, I entirely set the mood for the show, very eery! If those eye's would have actually opened, I would have had a heart attack! I also agree however that sometimes the shows without curtains are extremely effective, i.e. Phantom of the Opera!!!

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