Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Fabulous Fox, St. Louis

Although the city block on Grand Avenue is anchored on either end by the spectacular Craft Alliance gallery and the excellent City Diner, the Fox pretty dominates the street with its grand marquee and elaborate facade. Impossibly ornate both inside and out, the theatre is a venue for top name musical acts and touring Broadway shows. While in City Diner for coffee to go I heard the server manning the counter ask the couple next to me if they were from the show. The gentleman said "Yes we 're rehearsing the music for Priscilla and we are sounding good!" I walked across the street to take advantage of the very unusual 65 degree morning temps for some urban sketching in the nearby vest-pocket sized park. Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert opens it St. Louis run tonight. Next up, The Book Of Mormon which according to posters along side the box office is "the greatest musical of the century!" No matter how good the show is that seems to be overstatement until I remember that Oh yea, we are still at beginning the 21st century.

Fabulous Fox, 01/29/2013, Pogo stylus, Brushes3 for iPad. Drawn on location with slight modifications, signature and date added later.

5 comments:

  1. Great post--I love hyperbole, which the Fox seems to embody.

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    1. Marcia, Hyperbolic is a fitting description of all things Fox! Thanks for your great comment & word of the day, Marcia :-)

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  2. Love your sketch, Michael! Especially love how you conveyed intricacies of the architecture.

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    1. Thank you Alex. Someone once made the comment to me about a painting that I was showing at art fair that after seeing it from a distance he wanted to get up closer to see the details but when he did he realized there weren't any:-)m

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  3. Old theatres are SO cool...this one rocks!

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