Favorite Costume Design
Favorite Costume Design
#0Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:07pm
This just sort of popped into my mind. What shows costumes did you enjoy the most?
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ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#1re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:11pmHmmm... I actually loved Wicked's costumes. They are so intricate. And glinda's are so much fun. I also love the phantom costumes.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/05
#2re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 6:16pm
I love Wicked's as well. Glinda's are gorgeous of course, but I love the ensemble costumes too. Brooklyn has extremely original costumes, especially the competition dresses.
I enjoyed the costumes of DRS, very colorful and light
#3re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:16pmYeah I've got to give compliments to the costumes and costume designers in Wicked. They were very unique and intericate and beautiful. Elphabas dress was awsome in the sense that it wasnt just some simple black dress and cape in the 2nd act but it had all these different black fabrics and beadwork to it and Glinda's dress was gorgeous. I was glad to see that it wasn't the typical pink floofy dress. And all the ensemble costumes were very well done and interesting as well.
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#4re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:20pmWICKED's costumes ARE great, but I tend to go for more subtle, realistic costumes - they appeal to me most. I would have to say recently, the extremely sexy and stylish costumes in NINE - they were 100% perfect, exactly fit the tone of the show, and were stunning.
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#5re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:20pmI love in Brooklyn Paradice's costume with the trash bags.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#6re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:20pm
Defintly the revival of Gypsy..... stunning hello the puruple Moma Rose Dress = Life.........
hmmmmm or 42nd Street .... i like dopey showgirls in gooey gowns
#7re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:22pmi loved the costumes of the three (there were 6 actually) vampire girls in dracula. their necklaces and wigs were really cool.
#8re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:24pmToo many to list but I'll say that the Phantom costumes were amazing from up close, back stage.
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#9re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:29pm
Almost anything that William Ivey Long has touched.
Wicked's and Phantom's costumes are also gorgeous.
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#10re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:36pm
I love the costumes from CATS. They are so elaborate and intricate and completely different from anything that had ever been done before.
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#11re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 9:22pm
brooklyn's trash costumes are awsome
wickeds are really cool
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#13re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 9:31pm
It's engineering as much as design, but I thought the cow in the Into the Woods revival was brilliant.
For that matter - all the animals in Lion King!
#14re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 9:31pmI'm a huge fan of simplicity...recently, my favorite costume was Charlotte's simple black house dress, head cap and pearls in I AM MY OWN WIFE.
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#15re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 9:37pmBrooklyn and Wicked they have beautiful costume designs adn they're vry creative
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#16re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/7/05 at 10:03pm
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - Absolutely dazzling and intricate. The best costumes I've ever seen.
WICKED - Beautiful fabrics and overall design. I like how they strayed from the film.
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Understudy Joined: 1/20/05
#19re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:51amWe wore the original Broadway costumes in our tour of Sunday in the Park with George - they were each hand painted with very intricate designs - I'd have to say that those were my favorites.
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#20re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/8/05 at 5:47pmI know alot of you have mentioned Wicked's costumes, but I LOVE Elphaba's black dress in particular. It's so stunning!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#22re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:39pmi ahve to go with Wicked for #1 especially elphaba's act II dress so amazing! then ive seen pics of the costumes from brooklyn they are awesome and very creative its awesome on how you can use such weird things to make awesome costumes
#23re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:46pm
INTO THE WOODS
...both the original and revival had gorgeous costumes.
As far as a drama...definitely the revival of THE WOMEN.
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#24re: Favorite Costume Design
Posted: 3/8/05 at 9:12pmlion king. those things are amazing! (i really want to be part of the elephant)
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