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”,…
After a little interruption writing the posts about the Transforming costumes, I want to turn back to Gabrielle. As I described in my initial post, my perception of Gabrielle is that she is a bit “off”. I chose not to dress my Stepsisters as the comic book, over-the-top stereotypes that they often are portrayed–complete with outlandish…
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,…
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…
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