Broadway for Halloween- Page 2

[Producer2]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:10am

Bowl haircut and white outfit for "Tommy!"

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:19am

Know your audience! A great Eponine or Marcy Park would be a hit with folks who post here, but might be a flop with the ignorant, unwashed, non-theater crowd.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 12:01pm

Usually I go as movie characters for Halloween(last year I was a Ghostbuster), but this year I'm thinking about Sweeney Todd from the current revival(thin black tie, white shirt, black pants).
________________________________________________________________
"The music is the story, not the excuse for it."
-John Lloyd Young

[BWayRookie]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 12:07pm

I don't know if I would rather be Mimi from the play or the movie. The movie seems like it would have more choices and be easier to find clothes for...but the play seems more recognizable?

[Weez]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:38pm

I went as Elphaba once. I was a bit rubbish, but still a cut above all the other witches we met in town that night. Seeing as, y'know, I was the only green one.

I'm half-tempted to be Norma Desmond this year, but I also quite want to be Clint Eastwood, so we'll see. ^_^

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:45pm

I did Norma Desmond a few years back...it was fun...hard to keep up the character all night (which is key to really putting over a costume IMO) but well worth it.

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:49pm

i was mimi a few years ago. i wore a short skirt boots and a tight top. i made a belt for under my chest for the mike pack/azt, i carried a candle and a put black stocking on my arms. i walked around carrying a candle. i was 15 and it was the best i could do.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:51pm

Last year I was The Lady of the Lake from Spamalot. The year before that I was Velma Kelly, and the year before that I was Ophelia.

This year...I'm not sure. I should be down a good 20-30 pounds by that time, so I want a character to show off my physique (read: skinny waist and rockin' chesticles). Maybe Sally Bowles? Or Patti LuPone Mrs. Lovett?

But I do know that when my friends and I go to Rocky Horror on Halloween, I've already called dibs on Columbia

Updated On: 8/7/06 at 04:51 PM

[DramaQueen700]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:05am

I had the blue belle dress made for halloween two years ago. It was the broadway tied-up-vest style, not the movie jumper style. Everyone recognized it, it was cool!

[gustof777]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:07am

If I were better with making clothes and that stuff I would love to make something like Marc Kudisch's homeless man suit in See What I Wanna See!

[EdmundOG]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:18am

Here's one of me as the MC from Cabaret...



That was a sort of test shot. I later added blue eyeshadow and went a teeny bit heavier on the face.

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:35am

One year when I was really little I was Dorothy for Halloween. It was cute as I was about four and so ridiculously into the Wizard of Oz but I am, after all, Korean.

So later on, my friends and I did a whole Wizard of Oz thing. I had a really good Scarecrow outfit going on, my friend did Dorothy; we had the whole gang. But, the real kicker, was that my friends and I decorated a nearly-square box and added stuffed black-and-white striped socks to the bottom and she was the house that landed on the Wicked Witch of the East (Nessa??). It was fantastic.

[elphatine]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:58am

Ahh, Halloween... one of my best costumes was Mary Poppins when I was 9, which consisted completely of thrift-store buys (i.e. long skirt, jacket, carpet bag, and since I'm a redhead, I bought one of those nasty fake-hair ponytail-holder things in black, put it into a bun and sewed it to the bottom of my hat )...

This past year, my best friend and I were Glinda and Elphaba, except since a) we're lazy/had no time, and b) we were only freshman and didn't wanna go *too* all out (I'm sure you catch my drift), I wore the "Popular" teeshirt, a pink sweater, and a tiara and carried a wand, and she wore the logo teeshirt, glasses, a knit skullcap, and green eyeshadow. Easy and cute!

Edit: Damn, I killed the thread again!
Updated On: 8/8/06 at 09:58 AM

[danaonotlater]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:30pm

broadway_show_fan...did someone actually go as the house that fell on the WWotE or did you just carry it around, or something?

Oh, and why don't you use those costume construction skills to make your Marcy Park costume? ;D

[Mythus]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:07am

I'm seriously considering going as Man in Chair for this Halloween. I have no ideas...which is sad, because I usually have too many.

Hey elphatine...where'd you get that icon?

[morosco]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:18am

"Evita would be an easy one to emulate. Just buy a white, strapless gown, rhinestone necklace and bracelets, a wig in a bun (or if you're a blonde, wear your hair in a tight chignon) and you're all set. Just a suggestion."

And no Evita costume would be complete without a contraption around your waist that hold phoney broadcast microphones!!!

[EganFan2]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 7:30am

I went as Christine from POTO last year. I made the dressing gown myself. =)

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:03am

I've been trying to think of someone to be for Halloween- I haven't yet been a Broadway character although 2 years ago I was Wednesday Addams and that was by far one of my best.

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:35am

whoa-
danaonotlater - you're alive on the boards!

yes, someone did dress AS the house/dead Wicked Witch of the East. We only had three people - me (scarecrow), friend (dorothy) and other friend as said house/dead WWotE - but it was rather obvious what was happening in our little group.

[Matthewjames]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:06am

Mimi from the play is better

and you should do the light my candle outfit. it's easier

a slip, sweater, boots, knee pads, put your hair up they way she does

and get a thin short white candle
------------

but if you must do out tonight
black stockings or tights on your arms a silver or grey tube top
fishnet shirt to wear under (some mimi's have this ripped fishnet/mesh thingy covering there stomachs) and blue tights and animal print boots

and you have time so start looking now. if you really look you can find stuff that resemble it. and you should get a kimono and put tons of glitter in your hair so you can shake it out "and flirt with a stranger" lol

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:07am

I onced dressed as Gavroche from Les Mis. I had to explain it to everyone. It was so awkward.

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:18am

I was winthrup from music man when i was like 8, everyone thought i was duke elligton by the end of the night i was soo tired of explaining.

[AtypicalTheatre]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:45am

My junior year of college, I went as "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof". I wore all black with ears and a tail and then fashioned a chair sort of thing out of carboard covered in foil. I put arm straps on it and wore that on my back.

It only cost me 1.50 for the cardboard. Three cheers for cheap Halloween costumes! Updated On: 8/18/06 at 11:45 AM

[alliez92092]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:52am

I went as Maureen in her catsuit. My friends thought I was a cat...

[Elphaba984]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:55am

my friends and i went as the Wicked witches last year. never again will i paint half myself green. i think this year i'm gonna try either mrs. lovett (the patti lupone version) or holly (wedding singer)