This post is about another one of the neutral “wedding wear” dresses that members of the chorus wore to the finale of “Cinderella”. This is not my favorite dress close-up, but I do like it better from a distance. This costume began with a base dress. This is actually the remnants of a dress. Once…
This post is a description of how I upcycled the dress that is 2nd from the left. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I had so much fun doing these dresses. They were super quick with the emphasis being on the general overall color-effect of the wedding, versus worrying about style, time period, etc.…
The closing wedding scene in “Cinderella” was one of my favorite visual pictures from our show. These dresses were actually really fun to make because I knew they would be on stage for only a few minutes and they were really only for background color . . so quick and dirty costume creation was…
The new version of “Cinderella” the Prologue opens with a lovely choral piece (cut from “South Pacific” incidentally) where we find Ella roaming the woods and picking up sticks. In a rapid juxtaposition, the scene changes to a “Rocky Glen” and we find the Knights engaged in battle with a “Giant”. The scene is described…
Sending the Stepsisters to the Ball required some creativity and walking a fine line between awkward and WAY TOO MUCH. If you’ve been reading my blog, you know that I made many, many upcycled ball gowns for the chorus members. Creating something for Gabrielle that was in her signature pink, and a bit “off”,…
The finale of “Cinderella” is a wonderfully joyous wedding scene. In the Broadway version the entire cast does the finale decked out in what I call “Wedding Wear”. Ella, of course, is actually wearing a wedding dress. Since Ella wears a white dress at the Ball, an easy option is to have her wear this…
The Pink/Gold dress transformation is the final transformation to happen in “Cinderella” (Broadway Version). Unless the audience has had the good fortune to either see the show on Broadway or one of the touring productions, this is probably the first time they are seeing this version of the show. The pink/gold dress transformation is totally…
I have been itching to write this post as this was a super easy, and really fun transforming costume and I have been wanting to SHARE. Now that the show is over so we won’t spoil the surprise, and the costumes have been washed, I was finally able to get together with the girls and…
In our production of “Cinderella”, Ella had two capes. The first was the one that she wore to the Ball, and the second was a “transformation” cape. She wore this for the Pursuit, and then as she stood up after the chase, the cape was sucked into the stone wall and disappeared and she was…
In the Broadway Version of “Cinderella”, Ella has to ditch her traditional Disney-blue gown for white. There really isn’t any way to get around this. When Marie asks about going to the Ball, Ella replies she dreams of a white gown, done up with pearls. There are other references to the color of her dress,…
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