HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
Playbills
Utilize old musical playbills by framing them around your home. Either swap out hanging photos with playbills or frame the playbills in frames you can place on a fireplace mantle, coffee table, or food table. The framed playbills would also look great arranged around the base of a floral centerpiece.
Musical Posters
Tack up oversized Broadway posters on blank walls in your home. To save money, you can go online and use Google images to find high-resolution JPEG files of the posters and print them out at home. They won't be as large as a real poster, but they'll have the same fun décor effect.
Dramatic Lighting
Broadway musicals are full of dramatic lighting. Create dramatic shadows and a mysterious glow by filling your home with candlelight for the party. Everyone looks great in candlelight, and the flattering lighting will encourage guests to slip into their favorite character, mingle and have fun.
Tickets
If you decide to serve a sit down dinner, create place cards that mimic Broadway musical tickets. Adobe Photoshop pros can get really creative with this project, but using a glue stick to affix an "Admit One" ticket on the left hand side of a colorful place card will have the same effect - and take much less time.
Stage & Curtain
Go all out by creating a stage for your party food and beverages. Though this looks most authentic set up on a semicircle drop-leaf table (with one leaf up and one leaf down, creating the shape of a stage), any table can be used. Line the edge of the table with tealight candles along the rounded outer edge to create stage lights, and display food in groupings around the ‘stage' you've created on the table.
Take your table to a whole other level by creating curtains: lightweight red cloth affixed to a wooden dowel and hung over the stage for authentic looking Broadway curtains.
Decorations
Decorations
