HOW TO SUCCEED Costumes

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 6:00pm

From the looks of these costumes, I am assuming they going more in the realistic MAD MEN direction than the stylized feel of the original show? Thoughts?


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[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 6:01pm

Yes, which is a copy of what they did out at Goodspeed last summer.

Link with pictures!

Updated On: 2/9/11 at 06:01 PM

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 6:04pm

Not sure I like it. I prefer it somewhere in the middle. Slightly stylized. IMO.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 6:08pm

This is a better link

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 6:16pm

^The guys' suits look like they are going to a funeral.
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[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 6:26pm

Still like the original


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[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 6:34pm

The show is a comical satire, not a realistic look at the times, the costumes (so far) look too serious, Hedy is suppose to look cheap and tacky. The Mad Man look is great for TV but this is musical comedy, it was boring in PROMISES and looks boring here so far. I mean Tammy looks gorgeous but wrong to me.
Updated On: 2/10/11 at 06:34 PM

[Overkill]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 10:03pm

I don't like it. And I knew they were going to do this. When they announced the revival, it was very clear to me that they were going to try to play off of Mad Men. Very unfortunate. The show is a satire and this could be very bland looking, which is not how it should be.

I love this show. I just don't think I'll be loving this production. The best thing about it so far, is Rob Bartlett.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 10:38pm

the people i know in the costume shop tell me all of tammy's costumes aren't at all like this. i heard they were lacey, girly, and revealing.

maybe they're just playing "joan" up in the advertising?

[B3TA07]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 10:40pm

You don't think Mad Men is extremely stylized?

[CandiceElyse]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 10:51pm

by "more in the mad men direction" i think you mean she looks like a carbon copy of Joan Holloway. i love mad men, so i think the blatant mimicry is a little much, but I guess the style has already proven itself wildly popular, so i understand them wanting to go along with it.

[singtopher]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 8:59am

Rob Ashford must be a big MAD MEN fan.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 9:11am

Maybe How Now, Dow Jones can be next to receive the Mad Men treatment.

[Pippin]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 9:50am

"The show is a comical satire, not a realistic look at the times, the costumes (so far) look too serious, Hedy is suppose to look cheap and tacky.

I respectfully disagree with you there, Curtain. Clothing does not dictate whether or not something is a satire. it can be one of the ingredients, but it doesn't have to be. IMO, the more straight-laced and closer to realism something is the better the satire. Afterall, satire is making fun of the norms in life. Satire comes from the direction, the writing, and the overall tone of the production, which by nature of Loesser's and Burrow's exceptional writing already shows us that this is pure satire. I don't think you NEED to have Hedy look cheesy and knock the audience over the head with a *hint hint, wink wink*. They'll get it.

Stephen Colbert is satire, and he looks as normal as they come. It's in his actions and words that we find the satire.

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[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 11:31am

Pippin, you are correct, I just think it needs a lighter, funnier take. There's no reason why the costumes (and sets and hair,etc.) can't add to the frivolity.

[Brick]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 12:00pm

Well, then you'll get McAuff's tacky and cartoony revival.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 4:20pm

I don't remember the last revival being tacky, but cartoony is closer to the original material than Mad Men, the comedy is rather broad.
And Robert Randolph's original sets and Robert Fletcher's costumes understood that. I am all for re-inventing the "look" but why copy a TV show that has nothing to do with this show?
One is dark and dramatic and the other silly and light hearted.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 4:20pm

I don't remember the last revival being tacky, but cartoony is closer to the original material than Mad Men, the comedy is rather broad.
And Robert Randolph's original sets and Robert Fletcher's costumes understood that. I am all for re-inventing the "look" but why copy a TV show that has nothing to do with this show?
One is dark and dramatic and the other silly and light hearted.