Curtain Call at the Tampico

 is a quest in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money.

Quick walkthrough
Where is the Holotape Projector?

- The Holotape Projector is up a staircase, overlooking the stage. If you are facing the stage, the staircase is to the right of the stage.

Where is the key to up stairs? The key is in Vera's Partitures paper music in front of the stage.

Where is the last holoprojector for the Hologram guard that patrols the stage? There is one right in the entrance hallway to the backstage, another one hidden behind a couch in the storage room backstage, but where is the third and final projector? After activating the projector the holograms disappear.

Do you have to kill Dean once you talk with him backstage? No you don't have to

Detailed walkthrough
Enter the theater area and you will have a desk with a computer and cash register in front of you, the computer can be hacked to discover the Tampico's listings of how the show operates and there is also the Sierra Madre security code (which you will already have). Upon moving forward you shall see the main doors, with a skeleton and the Tampico's desk terminal password, which are inaccessible and two paths that lead left and right, the path to the right has a vending machine at the end whilst the left has a skeleton. Both paths will make your collar beep, but on the right hand side path the door will be locked, so go to your left and your collar will beep and just at the entrance of the door frame above you to your right is a speaker, blow it up.

Now you are in the theater where your collar will proceed to beep once you enter but the speakers can't be destroyed as they are secured ones. If you enter from the left there will be a desk to your immediate right and there is a safe which is very easy but only contains Pre-War money and Sierra Madre chips and there is also a first aid box with 2 Dirty waters,a RadAway and 1 Rebound. There is also a random selection of wines, whiskeys and Scotch. So if you head to the middle of the room beneath the stage there is a music stand with some mentats and purified water next to it, this is a safe spot from the beeping. Grab the music sheet (known as Vera's Partitures) and you will have the backstage key and then you'll engage in conversation with the man himself, Dean Domino. Now depending on how well you treated Dean through conversation up to this point will effect how this "transaction" will go. If you avoided any confrontational speech options, he'll help you out(and through speech challenges he'll help you out more). If you insulted his ego or in any way rude to him up to this point, he'll just say the hologram security will deal with you properly. Now take the door on the right(he'll say left but he means HIS left, make sure you don't make that mistake).

In this corridor there are minor spots of poisonous gas but are avoidable,as soon as you enter the corridor there is a hologram emitter to your right near the ceiling, however it requires 100 repair to disable move forward and to your left to discover Deans room with a radio in which you should turn off(or destroy), but be careful because your collar will keep beeping so run back to where you entered the corridor and straight again. Run just passed Dean's room and round the corner to see some skeletons, turn around 180 degrees and you will see a speaker shoot it(it's advisable to destroy the speaker first), and then return back to Deans rooms where on his desk you will find Vera's key and his safe. Run to the next room where you will encounter a dummy, this is the backstage props room there is a speaker in this room. The speaker is as you enter on the wall to your left, but if you cant see it run to the middle of the room and face the door you just entered and it will be above a crate standing on its end. In the corner of the room there is an emitter behind a couch which you need to deactivate. As you leave the room the collar will beep again and you will need to find Vera's room for the final radio which is in the corner to your right(note: the terminal by the door across from her room will deactivate the speakers in the theater), in this room there is also a song for Vera by dean take the holodisk on the same table as the radio and the key. the key works for Vera's Med box in her bathroom.

Go back into the theater and from the locked door mentioned early, go forward and then right up the stairs to the projector room, make sure you have Vera's master key and there is a lying Congressional style. Activate the projector with the holodisk and the security will disappear. Go backstage again and the stage door opposite Vera's is open now so go in and climb the stairs and find Dean and speak to him. Again, depending on how well you treated Dean will effect how this meeting goes. If you chose the more confrontational speech options, you can pass a speech check of 75 to convince him for the key to the exit but unfortunately you need to kill him for the key. Then finally run for the exit as killing Dean results in his collar been activated and you must escape the room to save yourself. you have about a minute to do so. (Note, you will not see the key on the body of Dean, it will be immediately added to your inventory.)If you avoided any confrontation and/or avoided insulting his ego, he'll tell you his plans(following the right speech path)and allow you to finish his work as he trusts you more and he'll give you his key.

Journal entries
if someone figures out how to save dean please write it in: It's as simple as walking away.

Edit: In Order to avoid killing Dean, the player MUST agree with working for dean in their initial meeting, otherwise you'll insult his ego. Oh, and of-course avoiding any kind of confrontational speech options with him.

BTW, you can use a Stealthboy and loot the 2 keys on Dean, instead of killing him at the start; however, you will still have to kill him later on to tie up the final pieces to open the elevator. [XBOX 360]. Don't quite remember if I was rude to him at the initial sequence, but I'm guessing I was.

and you have to be high to beat dean.

Behind the scenes
Curtain Call at the Tampico is actually a reference to the 1956 hit, "Smash that Tampico" by Sim Pinkett