I haven’t done a post about Madame up to this point, in large part because I didn’t make any of her costumes. However, I did want to show how we did her wedding costume, and as long as I was doing that I thought I would share the rest. Madame needs, at a minimum, a…
This is my last quicky wedding wear costume to blog about. I saved this one for last because it is my least favorite dress. I thought the colors would blend together, but, they really didn’t. There are components of it that I really like, so I think it is worth describing, but it just didn’t “click”. […]
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…
Gabrielle wears four different costumes in Act II. She begins with her Ball Gown for the post-Ball “A Lovely Night” Quartet with Madame, Ella & Charlotte. In this version of “Cinderella”, the glass slipper is not left behind at the Ball, but rather at a second event–the Banquet–that the Prince gives in an attempt…
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…
