a wicked question

[broadwaybaby692]

a wicked question#0

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:41pm

Why does Madame Morrible, in particular Carole Shelley, have such drastic kabuki-like makeup on? It was distracting, almost like her face pulled focus from the rest of the actors.

I dunno, am I just being silly?

[Yankeefan007]

re: a wicked question#1

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:42pm

Morrible has to look like a fish. It's in the book, apparently.

[WickedGeek28]

re: a wicked question#2

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:46pm

In the show it's done to make her look more fomidable.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[broadwaybaby692]

re: a wicked question#3

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:58pm

well she looks like she is from a different show entirely.

[Fosse76]

re: a wicked question#4

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:17pm

According to Shelley, her make-up becomes more extreme throughout the show to indicate her progression to villain.

[theaterlover45]

re: a wicked question#5

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:27pm

On a broadway.com video there was a behind the scenes thing, and it showed some of the cast in there dressing rooms. I remember Shelley saying that the make-up was for the audience to see her facial expressions.

[epiphany]

re: a wicked question#6

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:29pm

The gigantic butt has always been distracting for me...

[Unknown User]

re: a wicked question#7

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:33pm

Wait, the main character is GREEN and you think Morrible's make up is "Distracting"?

[theaterlover45]

re: a wicked question#8

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:35pm

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=507561

Shelley says it right in the beginning.

[WickedGeek28]

re: a wicked question#9

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:39pm

Correct Fosse.

And btw, they all wear make up to see expressions, she was just joking in a half sort of way.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[ashley0139]

re: a wicked question#10

Posted: 5/15/06 at 6:17pm

Joe- that actually made me laugh out loud. Good call.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[Broadwayluva]

re: a wicked question#11

Posted: 5/15/06 at 6:56pm

i love watching that video and seeing the whole cast just having a good time backstage and joking around with each other, you can tell that they're really close!

[jonartdesigns]

re: a wicked question#12

Posted: 5/15/06 at 7:03pm

i've noticed that the makeup plot was lightened up considerably when i saw alma cuervo. Her makeup is pale certainly but not the great stark white of carole and rue's

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel