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With the Shortest and Longest on stage time treads, it got me thinking about the fastest quick changes on Broadway.
The few that come to mind for me are:
-Christine’s in POTO during Think of Me
-Adelaide in Guys & Dolls after “Mary the Man” in to the Finale
Elphaba right before "One Short Day."
Alexi Darling before Contact in Rent and Angel from Happy New Year to Without You, they need to take the make up off and all the clothes. Updated On: 5/12/08 at 08:53 PM
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Glinda transitioning from Dear Old Shiz to right before The Wizard and I.
Janet in "Show Off"
The Jersey Girls in Jersey Boys. They're flawless.
There are a LOT in Dreamgirls that Theoni V. Aldredge did with magnets (a common use on costumes that are required to be quick-changed nowadays).
Christine's is easy all they do is snap a bigger dress on her.
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Ooh I didn't even think of Janet...She has what 4 or 5 in the span of a song and a half.
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The Lady of the Lake gets into that wedding dress pretty darn fast... :)
The entire cast of LEGALLY BLONDE into pink during the curtain call.
Ooh I didn't even think of Janet...She has what 4 or 5 in the span of a song and a half.
But hers are actually all pretty easy except one, They are all layered.
The Millie one is my fav.
I'm pretty sure those in cap and gowns already have their pink underneath.
Well, isn't there a pretty quick change during the opening number in LEGALLY BLONDE?
There's also the Witch's transformation in INTO THE WOODS.
Not really, They actually showed that change on the MTV showing if I am thinking of the same thing. But are you talking about the sliding down the pole? Because that is two people I believe.
I meant the one at the store she goes to get a dress. I only saw it on the MTV performance so not sure that they do it in the actual show.
The title of the thread, Drunk Chita Rivera, is "fastest quick changes". As far as I'm concerned, all of these are quick changes. Just because the costumes are layered, doesn't make it any less of a quick change.
Smokey Joes Cafe has a 9 second quick change going into "They Say The Neon Lights Are Bright"
Laura already had the dress on under the dress she has on. Amber goes behind her and snaps the dress off and wraps it around the one she brought out.
Yeah, wear they all like crowd around her? Yeah it's all magnets and they showed it on MTV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHGKkYgdIk
And talk about quick changes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJolESx-TMA&NR=1
"The title of the thread, Drunk Chita Rivera, is "fastest quick changes". As far as I'm concerned, all of these are quick changes. Just because the costumes are layered, doesn't make it any less of a quick change."
I was just saying that they aen't as fast as people think or as had as people think.
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Martin Short and the entire cast of LITTLE ME
Thewre was a quick one from the freaks into reporters in SIDESHOW.
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I'd like to know how Glinda gets out of the bubble dress and into the Shiz uniform so quickly, especially since the bubble dress is so massive.
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The back and forth between Bobby and Bobby-as-Zangler in CRAZY FOR YOU is... crazy.
OMG. Side Show.... there are SO many ridiculous quick changes in that show.
Yeah, I think the fastest I know of are the Drowsy and Dreamgirls ones.
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