CURTAINFIC -- hee! Great name for the Star Wars Victory Parade. ("Here! Have a plasma ball! Woo!" "Wait, don't we get a medal?!")

Apparently the cheesy has it.

Also, crowd control, yes. It is sooooo much easier to write individual character interactions than crowds. In that case, I think the answer may be characterCam, er, character POV in context of crowd, but still.