Costume question about original NINE

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 6:15pm

I was watching the Tony performance of "Be Italian," and saw that Saraghina's costume was very different from the one she is wearing in the photo on the back of the album sleeve. Was there some special reason she was photographed looking like a nun? (You can imagine my confusion reading the synopsis, and finding that this "nun" was a whore).

Also, did the women ever wear those white costumes, from the Tony performance, in the show? Any photos I've seen are of black costumes.
Tony performance

[Smaxie]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 6:26pm

The white costumes appeared in the finale.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 6:34pm

Sarraghina first appears as a nun, and the scene before "Be Italian", Guido has Carla dress up as a nun, meanwhile Sarraghina strips off her costume to reveal the whore costume you see in the Tony performance. Then she wears that costume through the rest of the show (with the exception of her white counterpart).

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 6:37pm

Thanks! It seems odd, to me at least, that they would chose to use her nun costume for the album photo, but whatever. Thanks again!

[Jon]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 7:08pm

There's certainly symbolism in the nun=whore imagery.

[morosco]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 7:26pm

Whenever I get my time machine fixed the the first thing I want to re-experience is the original production of NINE with the original cast.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 9:57pm

You don't need a time machine to do that, morosco.



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[morosco]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 11:02pm

lol....true

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/19/09 at 11:43pm

They really should NOT have cut The Bells of St. Sebastian in the movie. That would have helped bridge the gap between nun and whore, especially as Guido struggles with this himself.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/20/09 at 1:13am

Jon is right, there has always been some exchange of nuns and whores in history. In Shakespeare's time, a nunnery was a whorehouse.