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Friday The house chandeliers rose, the lights dimmed, the orchestra tuned, the black drop curtain went up, and "Madama Butterfly" got underway.

On that blasted heath, in the fabled storm of the third act (bizarrely played on the shallow ledge left by the fallen drop curtain), what registers most poignantly aren't the violent imprecations.

When the drop curtain — a gigantic reproduction of Mr. Baldessari's "Accordionist (With Crowd)" (1991) — rises on the opening tableau, we see a group of black-clad figures, their faces covered by brightly hued dot masks, standing in front of a graphic backdrop.

Or not Many more, I think to add, but stop Myself and toss my goofy wig away As if it were The silvery moon unwanted now that day- Break's come, whose calendar-page splendor's a flop, A drop curtain shown up as both garish and squat.

Napoleon at Austerlitz is a painting on a theatre drop curtain at the Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia, Kansas. It is a reproduction of a Horace Vernet painting and actually depicts the Battle of Wagram.

The New England Magazine, Volume 6. August 1892. He painted an "elegant drop curtain" for the Fairhaven Town Hall auditorium, in Massachusetts, c. 1894. Smith also painted ceiling frescoes in the Representatives Hall in the Massachusetts State House,King's how to see Boston.

A second drop curtain was created in 1979 during the theatre restoration. Both curtains were prepared by the Twin City Scenic Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The second curtain was prepared by Robert Braun and Michael Russell. After several months, the new curtain was unveiled on January 7, 1979.

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.

The interior of the theater is as luxurious as the facade, with sculptures by Henrique Bernardelli and paintings by Rodolfo Amoedo and Eliseu Visconti, the latter responsible for the majestic drop curtain, the frieze on the proscenium, the nave ceiling and the decorations of the foyer ceiling. The restaurant Assírius in the basement is peculiar in its impressive Assyrian decor.

Drop curtain for Theater of Chambéry, Savoy; depicting Orpheus playing lyre to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld. Luigi Vacca (1778–1854) was an Italian painter and scenic designer, active in the Piedmont.Art in northern Italy, by Corrado Ricci, page 225. He was trained under first his father, Angelo Vacca the elder, and later with Filippo Collino and Laurent Pécheux.

The Theatre was redecorated over the summer months of 1903. Henry Ranje, who had done some fresco work at the Bartholomew County Courthouse, was hired to oversee the redecorating. Bink Schnur created a new drop curtain which replaced the old one which had scenes of Sicily, Italy. Walter Doup, a Columbus bill poster, and stage mechanic at the theater, updated the mechanics of moving the large sceneries on and off stage.

The play proceeded without incident until 11 p.m., the intermission between the fourth and fifth act.'No Trouble or Expense was spared' "Special Report of the Fire Marshall" British House of Commons page 14 The drop curtain was down, hiding the stage, and the orchestra was playing. Some attendees in the parquet circle heard what sounded like a brawl behind the curtain, shouting and machinery working, noise carrying above the orchestra's playing.

Sparrell and Crump worked together in the selection of nationally renowned theatrical firms that specialized in interior theater design and scenic painting. In June, the Sosman & Landis Scene Painting Studio, Chicago, Illinois, was chosen to create scenic backdrops for the theatre. Thomas G. Moses was hired to paint the drop curtain. C. S. King was selected to build the necessary stage mechanisms needed to move the large, scenic panoramas and backdrops on and off stage.

Dusi attempted to make an accurate copy (1833) of the icon. In 1834 he painted an altarpiece of Saints Filomena, Lucy, and Agatha (1834) for the Venetian church of San Martino. Saints Filomena, Lucy, and Agatha Painting by Cosroe Dusi, San Martino Church After the Teatro La Fenice burned down in a fire, Dusri was commissioned in 1837-1838 to paint the sipario (main drop-curtain) for the newly rebuilt theater house.Nani-Mocenigo, page 212.

The famed theatrical artist Walter Burridge, scenic artist who painted sets for The Wizard of Oz, painted the front drop curtain entitled A Grove Near Athens that is still being put in use today.Manistee History - Spirit of the woods Frederic Winthrop Ramsdell, Ramsdell's son painted the two lunettes in the lobby. They were the lavish dome in the house depicting Venus riding her chariot through the heavens, surrounded by cherubs. There is a gilded proscenium besides these original murals that bedeck the dome.

"Simple, massive and dignified, the building stands out for its intrinsic beauty," raved The Architect and Engineer. Pacific Coast Architect wrote that it was a theatre "masked as a cathedral". There was a drop curtain that featured an homage to the pioneer Donner Party that perished crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Bronze busts of Native American leaders and photographs of Edwin Booth, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, Ellen Terry, Lillie Langtry and other 19th century actors adorned the lounges and lobbies.

This tour was primarily in support of Tenacious D in Post-Apocalypto, a hand-drawn animatic series which was released on YouTube from September to November in 2018. The series was entirely drawn by Black, and solely written and voiced by Black and Gass. The vast majority of performances on this tour featured a large front-drop curtain screen, which had visuals from the episodes projected onto it. When the songs played, the curtain was see-through, and revealed Black and Gass performing.

By 1887 White appears to have retired from performance, becoming stage manager for Hooley's Theatre in Chicago.New York Times, July 10, 1887 'Drop-Curtain Monographs:"Of the minstrels of the very olden time only Dan Emmett, Sam Sanford, Charlie White, Cool White, and Dave Reed, are living...Hooley is a theatrical manager in Chicago, Cool White is stage manager for Hooley's Theatre..." He was also instrumental in founding the Chicago Lodge, 3, of B. P. O. Elks. He died in Chicago on April 23, 1891.

Academy of Sciences in Athens A larger collection are Rahl's compositions which Griepenkerl carried out with the help of Eduard Bitterlich in the new municipal opera house. They worked for four years on the ceiling of the auditorium and on the drop curtain of the tragical opera. It was only after the death of Rahl in 1865 that Griepenkerl took on his own monumental assignments. The architect Hansen employed him to decorate the Palace Ephrussi and Palace Epstein, Franz Klein hired Griepenkerl for the castle of Hornstein and for the palace of Sina in Venice.

On opening night in 1907, Earl Brown unveiled a magnificent drop curtain reproduction of a Horace Vernet painting. The curtain, entitled Napoleon at Austerlitz, was presented as a gift to Colonel Brown from his son in recognition of his father's contribution to the community and to the Brown Grand Theatre, his crowning achievement.Kansas Curiosities by Pam Grout, published by Globe Pequot, (c) 2007 The original curtain still hangs above the stage but saw little use during the theatre's motion picture years. A 1967 tornado caused extensive water damage to the roof over the stage.

In addition to the Melodeon on the Bowery,"Drop Curtain Monographs," New York Times, July 10, 1887 White managed other theaters. In June of 1866, he opened a Music Hall for one season in Mechanic's Hall at 472 Broadway, a venue that had previously housed Bryant's Minstrels and would later host Robert Butler's American Theatre before burning down in 1868.New York Clipper, July 7, 1866. New York Times, April 8, 1868. In 1869 he ran the Theatre Comique at 514 Broadway for a season.John Charles Franceschina, David Braham: The American Offenbach, Psychology Press: 2003, p. 42.

After a tour that was notably successful in the South, Emmett retired to his hometown of Mount Vernon in 1888Occasionally taking part in performances: "Dan Emmett, whenever he is physically able and can get the chance, 'rosins his bow' for a dance party in Chicago."New York Times, July 10, 1887: 'Drop- Curtain Monographs' where he died on June 28, 1904, aged 88 years. From 1893 to the time of his death, he was aided by a weekly allowance from the Actors Fund of America. Emmett was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

In 1912, Lewis exhibited his work at the second Postimpressionist exhibition: Cubo-Futurist illustrations to Timon of Athens and three major oil paintings. In 1912, he was commissioned to produce a decorative mural, a drop curtain, and more designs for The Cave of the Golden Calf, an avant-garde cabaret and nightclub on Heddon Street. From 1913 to 1915, Lewis developed the style of geometric abstraction for which he is best known today, which his friend Ezra Pound dubbed "Vorticism." Lewis sought to combine the strong structure of Cubism, which he found was not "alive," with the liveliness of Futurist art, which lacked structure.

Rather, Bonanza Theater, 29.Don B. Wilmeth (2007) The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, Cambridge University Press; 2 edition it was the leading theater in the city until its demolition in 1888. There were elaborate murals of San Francisco painted by local artist G.J. Denny and a panoramic view of San Francisco Bay entitled "Entrance to the Golden Gate," on the drop curtain. The theater claimed to be the first on the West Coast to use calcium light (limelight) with parabolic reflectors, aimed from the house, to light up the stage. On the first anniversary of the theater's opening, a Scandinavian bandleader had the following to say, > The first year [1869-1870] the California Theatre cleared $100,000.

The Haskells wanted Canadians and Americans to have equal access to the Library and Opera House and so they chose to build on the border. Construction began in 1901 and the Opera House opened in 1904 and the Library in 1905. The opera house on the second floor was rumored to be modeled after the old Boston Opera House in a somewhat scaled down fashion (it seats four hundred), but the Boston Opera house was built afterwards. A painted scene of Venice on the drop curtain and 4 other scenes by Erwin Lamoss (1901) and plaster scrollwork complete with plump cherubs built in Boston ornament the opera hall and balcony in this historic building, which was constructed with walls built of granite from Stanstead.

Taking an extreme interest in the Napoleon curtain, Marion Cook (a member of the Brown Grand Board of Directors at the time) donated a new replacement drop curtain. The new curtain was painted by Twin City Scenic Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota—the same firm that had painted the original. For the artistic work on the drop, sought-after scenic painter Robert Braun was hired to do the Napoleon battle scene, and Michael Russell, president of the company, came out of retirement to paint the bordering green draperies and gold and bronze frame around the picture. The two artists requested a color photograph of the original Vernet work Battle of Wagram which hangs in the Hall of Battles in the Palace of Versailles near Paris.

For a large production with many scene changes, the rigging loft could be heavily loaded with painted canvas. On the night of the fire, it contained drops and borders for The Two Orphans and the scenery for Julius Caesar was stacked on the stage, awaiting pickup.'J. W. Thorpe' "The Inquest: How Three Hundred People Met Their Death" Brooklyn Eagle December 20, 1876 page 3 column 9 This had bearing on the fire's outset when stage manager Thorpe considered getting the hose but was hampered by scenery. The proscenium arch housed a drop curtain.'Under the Stage' "Brooklyn Theatre" Brooklyn Daily Eagle September 6, 1876 page 2 column 8 The arch itself was not integral to the theatre but was constructed with a lightweight, plastered curtain wall made of wood.

In lieu of a drop curtain, a difficulty in open-air productions, jets of steam could be piped in along the stage front, not only concealing the performers, but adding a mystical quality. The wings of the stage were screened with a heavy planting of forsythia and other shrubbery, which were transplanted from the shores of the Tidal Basin into beds along the sides of the stage. The entire area of the theater stage was covered with soil and seeded and sodded to ensure a good turf for the opening performance which took place on June 2, 1917. Construction elements also included 1180 cubic yards of rough clay fill, 350 square yards of shrubbery beds, 800 square yards of graded and sodded lawn, plus 900 square yards of graded and seeded lawn.

Armond Fields, Tony Pastor, Father of VaudevilleMcFarland, 2007, p. 72 In 1877, he was the victim of an attempted mugging. Described as "Charles White, the minstrel" and as living at No. 250 Hudson Street, he was attacked while drunk by two young men who tried to make off with his watch and pocketbook, but the theft was prevented by a police officer.New York Times, December 21, 1877: 'AN ATTEMPT TO ROB "CHARLIE" WHITE' He was largely retired from the stageNew York Times, July 10, 1887, 'Drop- Curtain Monographs':"Charlie White and Bernard long ago shook themselves clear of professional harness..." by 1887, although his obituary in the New York Times says that he had also been engaged to play the role of an elderly black woman in the popular 1890 Broadway musical Reilly and the 400, and that since retirement he had devoted himself to writing reminiscences of his career.