Favorite Costumes
Favorite Costumes
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#0Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:10pmThere's probably a few posts on this, but it's due time for another. What show holds your favorite costumes? I'm going to have to say Wicked. Not necessarily the leads, but the ensemble's are SO amazing.
#1re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:30pmI loved the emcees costume in cabaret.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#2re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:31pmtie between chicago and hairspray. oh, that talented william ivey long!
awkward.
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Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#3re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:33pmWilliam Ivey Long is a god. One of my favorite costumes - if not my favorite completely - is the Chrysler dress from The Producers. That was my Halloween costume.
#4re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:35pm
chicago... duh
hairspray
glinda's dress (opening, closing)
the red death head in phantom... love it :P!
::bust a move::
#5re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:36pm
Any thing that William Ivey Long has touched. 
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Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#6re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:37pmPhantom of the Opera. All the costumes are gorgeous. They remind me of the ones you see in grand opera.
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Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#7re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:43pm
-I second the Grand Duchess Anastasia/Chrysler Building (tomato/tomahto) dress! Indeed, William Ivey Long IS a god.
-A couple of the costumes for the new La Cage are stunning.
-Anna's dresses in The King and I... but, that might just be my fascination with hoop skirts talking.
-Most, if not all, of the costumes that have appeared in Forbidden Broadway ("Annie," and "Elphaba's" dress in Defying Chenowith come to mind).
EDIT: Ah, how could I forget the Red Death costume?
Updated On: 1/31/05 at 05:43 PM
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#8re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:45pmNot my favorite show but Beauty and the Beast's costumes (and sets) are INCREDIBLE!! Some of the coolest I have ever seen!
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#9re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:48pmInstead of getting down to specific costumes, I'll say I've liked the ones in Phantom of the Opera, the Producers, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Beauty and the Beast. I haven't seen Wicked, but from the pictures I've seen, they have wonderful costumes, especially for Glinda and Elphaba.
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LilMiZBroADwaY23
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/04
#10re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:52pm
Definitley Phantom, because well, the half mask is so kick ass and everything is so classy, and nice.
Hairspray- I was Tracy for two Halloween's, and also for "Occupation day" at my school.
Chicago, obviously.
DEFINITLEY LION KING! Some of those ideas are really amazing.
#11re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:54pmoh yeah the lion king! I was very happy with those costumes.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#12re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 5:59pmI love the green Emerald City costumes in Wicked. Also, Edna and Tracy's matching dresses in Welcome to the 60's. Finally, the costumes of La Cagelles at the end of the show (silver, lots of leg...)
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
jjdude2000
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/04
#13re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:05pmAll of the phantom costumes are stunningly beautiful (IMO - red death, etc.), and the wicked ones so wonderfully fit with the show. The asymmetry of most of the costumes are so right for Oz.
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Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#14re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:07pmMy mother, who has her own fashion line after attending Fashion Institute of Technology with Calvin Klein many years ago, fell in love with the costumes from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and still vividly describes them to this day. She actually had the opportunity to work in costuming for the national tour of the production, but she turned it down to raise me and my siblings. So now when I see the show on Wednesday, I will be looking at each costume in great detail!!
#15re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:09pm
Bernadette's Act 2 Dress in Into the Woods - WOW
Millie's Gimme Gimme Dress - stunning
Elphaba's Act 2 dress - GORGEOUS
Lion King- EVERYTHING IS PHENOMENAL!!!
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
#16re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:09pmspeaking of the asymmetry, i seriously just realized about 2 weeks ago that glinda's thank goodness costume has 1 sleeve.... wow... i'm so dumb!
::bust a move::
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#17re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:14pm
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Fav. Costume=Gimmie Gimme dress)
Wicked (Elphie's 2nd act dress, Galindas 1st dress)
Les Miz (Valjean and Javert)
The Phantom of the Opera (The Masquerade costumes)
The Lion King (Everything :))
Caroline, Or Change (The Moon, anyone?!?! WOW!!!!)
The list goes onnnnn....
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#18re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:14pm
Joshua -
Didn't you say on another thread that you had tickets up close for PHANTOM? I hope you do. This is one musical that can really be appreciated more from up close. The costumes are the main reason for that.
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mamie4 5/14/03
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stagestar130
Stand-by Joined: 1/24/05
#19re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:15pmThe costumes for Les Cagelles in La Cage are amazing. Millie's "gimmie gimmie" dress also. The costumes for the Wicked ensemble when they're all green and most of Glinda's dresses are awesome.
#20re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:20pm
La Cage
Phantom
Millie
Wicked
Some of the "Taboo" costumes were wild.
And here's a costume question for you guys...in the original production of "Sunday in ther Park...", how did Dot's dress in the opening manage to open and close behind her?
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#21re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:35pm
Huge contrast here but I love Chicago's costumes and Aida.
Simple, Sleek Sophistication with one, and bright, vivid colors with the other.
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#22re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 6:48pmLittle_sally - I always assumed it was mechanical and operated by remote. I don't really know how it works, though.
stagestar130
Stand-by Joined: 1/24/05
DivaMommy
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/03
#24re: Favorite Costumes
Posted: 1/31/05 at 7:07pm
I LOVE COSTUMES! In fact, I am designing for a production of Cinderella right now! It's a blast!
My fav's - Into The Woods (OBC) - I don't think I could ever design that show because those costumes are toooooo perfect - totally William Ivey Long shows (except the revival of LSOH - not to my liking) - especially How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
Elphaba's act 2 dress is truly stunning!
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