Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
DebbieDowner2
Swing Joined: 5/27/05
#0Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:07pm
I was going to dress up as Elphaba..green make up and all. It's not that hard of a costume to make.
Have any of you dressed up like your favorite Broadway character? My friend Cole wanted to dress up as Skimbleshanks for our high school costume party. I don't think guys have as many choices as the gals! LOL!
You too can be a famous singer with no French accent and wear a Twister game board in just 15 days!! Ask me how!!
#1re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:12pm
I dressed up as Galinda for Halloween..my friend was Elphaba w/ me.
For my Sweet 16 I'm having it Taboo/Anthony Rapp/80's themed..That way, I can dress up as Hedwig (:)!) and my friend is gonna be Boy George..for those 'non Broadway lovers' I have as some of my friends, I threw in the 80's theme so they wouldnt complain lol.
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#2re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:14pmI once dressed up as Eponine during an anime convention.
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#3re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:18pm
I think I want to dress up as Gavroche one night, just for fun. 
What the puck?!
#4re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:28pm
I dressed up as Mark from Rent one year for Halloween. I thought it was fitting.
~Steven
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:32pm
You name it, I dressed as it. I had my ow one Wo-Man show in West Hollywood for 6 1/2 years, so I dressed as everyone at one point or another.
good times, good times
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bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#6re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:36pm
She isn't my favorite Broadway character, but...
I tried dressing up as Mimi (from Rent) once, and my parents wouldn't let me out of the house.
#7re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:37pm
O no, sadness! That's upsetting, ha. Sorry, ballerina!
~Steven
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#8re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:48pm
Well, he's not my favorite character, but he's one of them. I went as Roger DeBris for Halloween. https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewphoto.cfm?id=3331 There's two pictures of the dress. Shame you can't see the heels I was wearing - I walked about five miles in them, and they didn't fit. My feet hurt for a week after. But it was worth it! I found the pattern for dress in my costuming book, and then spent a month or so designing the Chrysler shape. The tiara was thrown together last minute - it's made from one of those cheesy green Statue of Liberty things. Oh, and it's too bad you can't see the bag in the picture...I had leftover cloth so I made a matching Art Deco bag for candy. < /ramble>
And I'm going as Mrs. Lovett (in her Act II God, That's Good dress) this Halloween. Or Toby, if I can't make a pattern for the dress.
#9re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:59pm
Mythus, you look absolutely fabulous as Roger!
Did you make the costume yourself? It's great!
~Steven
#10re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:00pmI used to raid my mothers closet so that I could have an entire set of Annie costumes. I realized at age 12 that I would never be cast as Annie...not because I was a boy but because a 13 year old never gets the role....realization.
#11re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:10pmI was gonna make a really great '20s costume this year, and now it's turned into Millie! Then my friends had the idea to do a bway show costume party for Halloween and then go to six flags dressed in our costumes! lol
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#12re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:13pmYeah, HeyMrMusic, I did.
#13re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:34pm
When I was younger, I dressed up as Eponine from Les Miz, and won "Funniest Costume" in my town's annual costume parade. =/ I remember being very upset by that...
At least one person was Elphaba for Halloween this year in my school (I'm a senior, and all the seniors get to dress up), but it was bad green makeup and was smearing everywhere.
broadwaybaby77
Leading Actor Joined: 10/17/04
#14re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:37pm
I was Elphaba for last year's Tony party. I was covered in green makeup. It took me about three days to get it off of my entire body.
I also had this one dress for a dance that I made up to "All That Jazz", so I called it my Velma dress.
Right now I'm waiting for my mom to agree to let me wear a leather catsuit to the opening of the RENT movie.
-Grace
#15re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:42pmI was a half Elphaba only without the full on green skin (the stuff I was using ended up irritating my skin so I had to ditch it at the last minute :-P). I did manage to keep the green lip and eye makeup though. And me and my friends are going to dress up as RENT characters for the movie for sure. They are all telling me I should either be Maureen or Mark. Now there's a set of completely opposite choices..... (And for those confused, I am a girl but I have the Mark glasses and scarf and chords so there you go...)
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
#16re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:45pmdid Phantom a few halloweens back, thinking of doing kind of a male version of elphaba this year, using the phantom tux jacked and some jeans and green glow paint for almost a "punked" out male elphaba, LOL. should be fun glowing in the UV lights all night
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#17re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:50pm
I refuse to wear a Hello Kitty night shirt.
But, if you add long hair to this puppet, I am her spitting image.
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We even have the same smile. I have a few shirts in that color.
Updated On: 5/31/05 at 03:50 PM
#18re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:54pm
I did Phantom once for halloween.
I currently dress like Princeton almost every day. 
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
#19re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:56pm
Not Yet.... lol.
November 11.... I'm going to be ANGEL!!
.... or maybe I just can't wait to go to the movie theater in drag! lol
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#20re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:58pm
well this probably doesn't count but...i dressed up as janet weiss from RHPS with all my friends as the rest of the cast.
The year before that i went as eva peron for a costume gala my city had- nobody really knew who i was-well, except for the few people that recognized her signature blonde hair in that hairstyle- but i looked famous and important so i guess thats good enough :P and my bf at the time looked awesome as juan!
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
#21re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:07pmthis halloween me and my best friend are going as galinda and elphaba. im going to be galinda.
-annie
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#22re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:11pm
My best friend did that last Halloween. She was Elphaba and her friend was Glinda.
~Steven
MatureDignity
Broadway Star Joined: 10/31/04
#23re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:12pmIn 7th grade, my friend and I were Mark and Roger from RENT. We had to explain ourselves at almost every house.
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#24re: Have You Dressed Up Like Your Favorite Broadway Character?
Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:19pm
I thought about dressing up as Fosca from Passion for Halloween, but only my drama teachers at school would know who I was, and I might scare people.
I also thought about Ruth Sherwood, but then again, not many people would know who I was dressing up as. But that's still a possibility for this years Halloween.
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