She brings down the first act curtain with coy quiet.
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Mr. Sommer's wittily appalled Bradley needs to be a shade more menacing for the second act curtain scene to unsettle as it should.
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Her emotionally supple interpretation of the knockout first-act curtain number, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," is as stirring as any I've heard.
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Both Arden and Rubinstein quarrel with, and are betrayed by, men they love, who feel emasculated by their dominating women and wind up changing alliances even before the first-act curtain falls.
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When the second-act curtain rises on an actual waterway built through the stage to depict a Venetian canal, the effect is momentarily staggering — until the real water begins to move and overflow by means of digital trickery.
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Its score, by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, adheres without fault to all the musical theater rules, including the one that suggests pounding your hit number ("Journey to the Past," from the movie) for all it's worth at the first-act curtain.
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The production at the Shelter West Theatre Company incorporated several production techniques pioneered by Brecht as director, beginning with his signature "half-act curtain".The "half-act curtain" was one of the most salient features of Brecht's theatre, perhaps most famously with the Berlin premiere of "Threepenny Opera" in 1928. See Caspar Neher - Bertolt Brecht: Eine Bühne für das epische Theater. Suzanne de Ponte.
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In 1999 a fire broke out in the theatre. A ghost light nicknamed "Larry The Light" was left too close to the act curtain by the theatre's cleaning crew. The light ignited the curtain, and the flames spread quickly. Damages amounting to $300,000 included the loss of the act curtain, damage to the stage floor, and smoke damage to the auditorium walls and ceiling.
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Berger, Leon. "George Grossmith" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Macmillan, 1998 He also wrote the music for Arthur Law's short comic opera, Uncle Samuel (1881), the one-act curtain raiser that preceded Patience on the Opera Comique programme.
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Ed. Taylor & Francis. Illustrated. 2005, pg 415 The act curtain or drop curtain functioned as today's main drape, the decorative divider wall between audience and stage. Often, it was the most elaborate piece a theater owned and was painted to harmonize with the interior decorations of the theater itself.
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Ed. Taylor & Francis. Illustrated. 2005, pg 415 The act curtain or drop curtain functioned as today's main drape, the decorative divider wall between audience and stage. Often, it was the most elaborate piece a theater owned and was painted to harmonize with the interior decorations of the theater itself.
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Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, painting by Eliseu Visconti (1908). Austrian curtain. The front curtain, also called house curtain, act curtain, grand drape, main drape, main curtain, proscenium curtain, main rag or, in the UK, tabs, hangs downstage, just behind the proscenium arch. It is typically opened and closed during performances to reveal or conceal the stage and scenery from the audience.
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Gordon, p. 33 Richard D'Oyly Carte saw him perform and offered him the chance to join the main London company at the Savoy Theatre, as a chorus member and understudy.Gordon, p. 36 Gordon remained a member of the company until 1890, playing Piscator in The Carp, a one-act curtain raiser, when it accompanied Ruddigore (1887), and Harrington Jarramie in Mrs.
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In this Gounod was exceptionally fortunate: a novice composer in the 1840s would usually, at the most, be asked to write a one-act curtain raiser.Lacombe, p. 210 Gounod and his librettist, Emile Augier, created Sapho, drawing on Ancient Greek legend. It was intended as a departure from the three genres of opera then prevalent in Paris – Italian opera, grand opera and opéra comique.
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Wilde had recently moved into producing, establishing his own company, Theodora, with his then-wife Jean Wallace. Their first film was The Big Combo. In January 1955 he hired Horton Foote to write the script, and announced he wanted this to be Theodora's second film, putting others (Curly, Lord Byron, Second Act Curtain) on the back burner. Wilde, who had recently directed an episode of General Electric Theatre, decided to direct this.
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An Austrian curtain. A front curtain, also known as a (front-of-)house curtain, act curtain, grand drape, main curtain or drape, proscenium curtain, or main rag is the stage curtain or curtains at the very front of a theatrical stage, separating the house The front curtain is usually opened at the beginning of a performance to reveal the stage set and closed for intermissions as well as the end of a performance. The most common material for the front curtain is a heavy velour material, often with pleated fullness sewn into the fabric to create a more opulent appearance.
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The "monkey fur"—actually crushed velvet—wall covering that was brown for more than a generation, has been restored back to its original vivid blood orange hue through a supplier in Germany. Gold brocade draperies from France now accent the walls, replace the act curtain, and dress the lobby stairway landing. The auditorium floor was also refurbished to better accommodate handicap access, and the lobby, aisle, and atrium carpeting were all restored with a recreation of the original Art Deco pattern that lined the floors when the theatre opened in 1931. The lighting, sound, and fire alarm systems were also updated, restoring the venue back to state-of-the-art status.
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Florence Easton (not to be confused with the better known soprano Florence Easton) was a British singer and actress who sang with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the early 1890s. Easton appeared with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Savoy Operas from May 1892 to June 1894. In Captain Billy, a one- act curtain raiser that accompanied The Vicar of Bray, she played the small role of Polly in May and June 1892. She originated another small role, Deborah, in Haddon Hall in September 1892, and in April 1893 she had the opportunity to play the leading role of Dorothy Vernon in that opera for several nights until the end of that opera's run.
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Shelter West Theatre Company, New York, 1978, showing the use of Brecht's "half-act curtain", projections of historic German locations. The 1978 American premiere of the 1926 play Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer took place November 9, 1978, Off-Broadway at the Shelter West Theatre Company. It was directed by W. Stuart McDowell, then Artistic Director of the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York, where McDowell subsequently staged the New York premiere of another of Brecht's early plays, Edward II. This production was inspired by the first German production of two years before, but in no way attempted to copy that production, but rather endeavored to develop a production style more appropriate to Brecht's theatre work of the 1920s. Permission for the English translation and subsequent production was granted by Brecht's agent Bertha Case and Stefan Brecht on behalf of the Brecht estate.
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