Dressing up for shows

[Broadwaywest]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 10:04pm

Does anyone on here dress up for shows? I don't mean like fancy dress, I mean like dressing in appropriatness for the show. Like if you saw wicked? Are there ever any wannabe elphabas or galinda's in the audience. When we went to go see book of mormon last month, me and my friend dressed as mormons.(namestags and all). We got some stares and some awesomes. The cast seemed to enjoy it. So i was curious if anybody else does?

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 10:17pm

I appreciate that you dressed up for Book of Mormon, haha. That's awesome. I've never done it but I saw some girls at Billy Elliot in tutus. They were not young girls though, so it wasn't cute, just annoying.

[LegallyBroadway2]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 10:41pm

obvious would be spider-man costumes. that happens.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 10:45pm

I think seeing kids dressed up is cute. Adults not so much. Not that Im saying they are losers, but its kind of a stretch. It's like Janeane Garofalo's bit about the person who puts on the new concert T-shirt at the concert, "please don't be that guy", she implores. I kind of agree.

A few of my friends got irritated at Taboo because people showed up wearing all kids of facacta outfits and hats that obstructed views. It caused problems because the fashionistas didnt want to remove their 80s club headwear.

People like that are annoying. Its like get a life. No one is here to see you.

[LegallyBroadway2]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 10:48pm

unless its really creative and generally subtle, I am fine with adult/teens in outfits. . . it really depends on the situation. But usually its obnoxious.

I love little kids dressed up.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 11:01pm

I only dressed as Elphaba once. It was when I went to see The Normal Heart.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 11:48pm

I only dressed as Glinda once and it was to try to get Kristin Chenowith to notice me, damn it, just look at me, just tell me my life has meaning, be my friend, sign my Grimmerie, make life ok, make the voices stop, give me something to get up for in the morning.

She was out that performance, but Norbs gave me a reacharound so I got over it.

[Rudy2]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 12:15am

She seems to be out of a lot of performances.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 12:54am

I've never done it. But this reminds me... there used to be this regular guy at Phantom in San Francisco who was a makeup artist by night (caterer by day) and would show up in costume, deformed face and all, every Halloween. He brought a mask, too, but would take it off during the show to not be distracting. Huh.

[Okayfine]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 3:33pm

This all sort of smacks of what’s become our reality show culture: the audience not only wants to be part of the show, they think they OUGHT TO be. It’s sort of needy: “LOOK AT ME! NOTICE ME!” Icky. I can see showing up in a T-shirt or carrying some sort of small pragmatic souvenir (I guess a show-themed tote bag would be an example), but a costume is just begging for any attention at all. Sort of sad.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 3:39pm

I always wear Dolly's red feather headpiece whenever I see HELLO, DOLLY! There have been people who had the temerity to ask me to remove it during the performance so they could see the stage. I normally turn to them and glower, "Do you know who I am? If you don't like this, go to see PIPPIN." Normally that settles the matter. Once, though, the situation became rather testy and I'd rather not relive it.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 3:55pm

Well, I think it depends on the situation. If it was Halloween and the show was encouraging it. I seem to recall Toxic Avenger playing up the fact that they had a performance on Halloween.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 4:24pm

I find anything that makes the audience part of the show, repugnant.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 4:29pm

It's cute when kids dress up. There were 3 little girls maybe 5 or 6 years old dressed up as Glinda at the Wicked stage door. When Katie Rose came out and saw them she had the biggest smile on her face and was gushing over them the entire time she was walking down the line signing and taking pics.

[Patash]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 4:46pm

They were very rude to me when I went to Naked Boys Singing. . .

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 5:00pm

Patash, maybe your suit was a little too wrinkled when you went to see the show?

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 5:03pm

If you DON'T dress up and participate at Rocky Horror, however, you're missing the point of the show. And if by some chance the production team requests that you NOT get involved in the production and let the actors act unmolested, THEY are missing the point of the show.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 5:05pm

Depends on the show. I dressed like a club kid for Taboo (what? Everyone I knew was doing it). I dressed like my high school students when I saw ...Spelling Bee. I wore my Alice-themed graphic tee for Wonderland (it's awesome: it's covered in various cards in the heart suit and has a big pen and ink-styled drawing of a rabbit with a top hat and monocle on it) under an open button-down shirt. Otherwise, I stick to a nice pair of dark jeans and a button down shirt/tie combo for Broadway shows.

[defygravity24]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 5:14pm

I don't think there's anything wrong with wearing a show's shirt, but adults shouldn't dress up in costumes. It's not cute, just distracting.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 6:08pm

I'm not ashamed to admit that I wore my Ragtime shirt to the flea market last year, so when I won lotto for next to normal that day, Marin Mazzie winked at me from the stage when she saw my shirt.
Updated On: 7/6/11 at 06:08 PM

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 6:09pm

"I'm not ashamed to admit that I wore my Ragtime shirt to the flea market last year, so when I won lotto for next to normal, Marin Mazzie winked at me from the stage when she saw my shirt."

That's awesome. She's a class act.

Updated On: 7/6/11 at 06:09 PM

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 6:29pm

I only dressed as Elphaba once. It was when I went to see The Normal Heart.

Spit COKE Zero, all over my laptop screen.

[BlackCabbiTabbi]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 6:51pm

Updated On: 7/22/11 at 06:51 PM

[hairspraydude1962]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 7:00pm

When I saw the Hairspray tour in Baltimore, there was a woman there with a three foot tall beehive. I am just happy I wasn't sitting right behind her. It definitely got some attention, though.

[jenniewie2]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 8:44pm

When I saw Jerusalem, there were three or four grown women who had made exact replicas of the bright orange "Farewell Lee?" shirts that John Gallagher Jr. wears in the show. They also sat front row center. It was weird.