Quick Costume Changes- Page 4

[DiamondGirl]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 10:14am

"Show-Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone - particularly the one behind the umbrella.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 10:44am

Quick costume changes are all about having phenomenal dressers. With a good dresser all you really have to do is stand there and help if needed.

[jess20882]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 12:40pm

yup, the quick costume change is all about the dressed and how fluid the movements are backstage. i was a child wrangler/dresser for a broadway show (that unfortunately ended two years ago) and we had some costume changes that happened in about a minute and a half. not to mention having to get the kids cross-stage to make a new entrance. if it weren't for the dressers we had and the attention to detail of the actors and crew backstage, it never would have worked.
kudos to all members of stagecrews everywhere

[Tag]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 1:57pm

Are you IATSE?

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 2:22pm

when i did "Joseph..." the brothers/wives doubled as the ensemble as well....a very fast change was from One More Angel to Potiphar...the number would end we would run (which did not matter because of the previosu song) the narrator would go "Joseph was taken to Eygpt in Chains and Sold...." and then we were back on in a totally differnt outfit. The ensemble girls also had like 4 differnt wigs for numbers.

Also when I did "Into the Woods" we did not have a stand-in for the witch...she would simply reduce her make-up in the scene she was not in so when she had the scene where she changed the audience would not really notice because of the lights and smoke...aothough one performance she did forget to take off her witch nose...which looked funny now that she was pretty...oh well!

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 2:22pm

when i did "Joseph..." the brothers/wives doubled as the ensemble as well....a very fast change was from One More Angel to Potiphar...the number would end we would run (which did not matter because of the previosu song) the narrator would go "Joseph was taken to Eygpt in Chains and Sold...." and then we were back on in a totally differnt outfit. The ensemble girls also had like 4 differnt wigs for numbers.

Also when I did "Into the Woods" we did not have a stand-in for the witch...she would simply reduce her make-up in the scene she was not in so when she had the scene where she changed the audience would not really notice because of the lights and smoke...aothough one performance she did forget to take off her witch nose...which looked funny now that she was pretty...oh well!

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 2:46pm

Into the Woods has a couple quick changes - everybody mentions the Witch's, but Cinderella has a couple changes from hell. There's the scene before "Ever After" which has her going from ball gown to rags to wedding gown, and the Act II prologue which gives the actress about 15 seconds of dialogue (from the "birds" monologue to the Baker's "Into the woods" reprise to go from royal-wear to rags again.

[Colle]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 3:24pm

In Les Mis, I think Fantine has a quick costume change(s) during "Lovely Ladies."

[Phantom487]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 3:40pm

I played the Tinman in "The Wizard of Oz" last fall, and the Oz back to Kansas change at the end is pretty fast... about 20 seconds for me to change back into my Hickory costume AND remove all the silver makeup!

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 4:00pm

When we did Bat Boy at my college, some days were a mess.
It's hard to explain but there were double roles- and also some male roles were played by females and vice versa.

I don't quite remember how it went but the guy that played Rick Taylor, was Maggie for one scene. He was in a dress and he had to change back to Rick. However, something happened (don't remember what) and his pants weren't backstage so we quickly scrambled and found another pair of pants; only problem was, they were a bit big. He had to do some kind of flip/dance on Bat Bat Boys cage and since he wasn't wasn't wearing the pants that fit him, the flip was kinda...um...

floppy?