How I, and my dedicated volunteers, costumed “Ella” in the musical “Cinderella” (Broadway Version)
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…
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…
The first transforming costume that Ella wears is for the “Impossible” scene, where the Fairy Godmother transforms her peasant dress into a white gown for the Ball. This is the finale of a long magical sequence that begins with the transformation of Marie into the Fairy Godmother, the Raccoon and Fox into Coachman and…
I have long commute to work and I often begin composing posts in my head on my drive. It helps me organize my thoughts, and frame the post so the writing goes more quickly. Ella’s costumes are so complex and intertwined that I kept twisting back and forth and getting side-tracked. And, in truth, that…
Dressing Ella is a huge part of “Cinderella”. One of the first decisions that needs to be made, before just about anything else, what to do about the Transforming Costumes. Broadway Cinderella has three major and one minor transformation costume–and three of those belong to Ella. Ella transforms from her peasant outfit to her white…
When costuming a large chorus scene, I like to provide some unifying details if possible. In “Grease” all of the girls who went to the Dance had wrist corsages. I like petticoats for that same reason. In “Cinderella” all of the girls at the Ball had hair pieces. I had a wonderful Freshman who created…
If any of you read my first post about Cinderella, you know that I REALLY wanted to re-create a high-school-budget-version of the wonderfully over-the-top ball gowns found in the Broadway version of “Cinderella”. The magical lifts and twirling skirts weave a wonderfully fanciful image of a Fairytale land ball–something every little girl would dream of attending. Figuring…
Cinderella = Glass Slippers. There isn’t a whole lot you can do to avoid them. The question is . . what exactly does a glass slipper LOOK like? And where do you get one? And how important are they? The easiest answer is to google glass slippers, and you come up with a couple of…
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