One thing that interests me--based on this, and Riedel's previous column--was that the designers had worked for weeks without being paid, and had in some cases put up their own money. Willa Kim has been in the business for over sixty years. She should know better.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
The producers probably spent all the budget on Dracula's wig.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
'The producers probably spent all the budget on Dracula's wig.'
All of about 12.00.
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I believe, or from what I gathered in the article that there was no performance done in street clothes. I think when the writers states they called the costume designer and promised her a check the next day it was before the show and they were able to get her to allow the costumes to be worn. I think that is what is meant when it says "8:00pm The red velvet curtain at The Little Shubert rose majestically on our handsomely costumed production of "Dracula."
LadyoftheWood- I took it to mean the opposite. She still took the costumes (She said it had been removed from the theatre) but that they were returned for the final performances.
"They probably spent all their money on the firing of Thora Birch. Wouldn't her contract have had to been bought out?"
Not necessarily. It depends on how the contract was written. If the reports of her father's weird behavior (threatening another actor) are true, then they could end her contract without a payout.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.