A photo booth allowed guests to take silly photos against an '80s-inspired yearbook-picture backdrop. A table featuring old-school photos and other items from the decade served as props for the images.
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Other simple, but fun decor elements included tassles, fabric, and lights strung overhead as well as bunches of balloons.
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The prom theme for Gen Art Chicago Film Festival's recent opening-night party was also film-inspired, by the preparty screening of Bart Got a Room—a film that centers on a young boy desperately seeking a prom date. Gen Art planners decked out the Ravenswood Billboard Factory with paper lanterns and installed an area where guests could pose for pictures in front of a backdrop of moons and stars. Specialty cocktails had thematic names like "Principal's Office" and "Last Dance."
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DiDa Ritz, who appeared on the reality TV show RuPaul's Drag Race, performed on a high school auditorium-inspired stage done up with rainbow-colored drapes, glittery stars, and oversize musical notes. Ritz, an alum of the theater company, "acted as the evening's enchanted and fierce host," Wells said.
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