Evita Fittings

This week began the epic journey that is Evita.  There is a cast of 34 including teenagers and children.  The average cast member has about 7 to 10 costumes each.  That's only the amount of costumes, the changes are more than that because they repeat a few of those.  We now kiss our free time adios... and get hunkered into the routine of frantically setting up alterations between fittings that last about two hours each.  Today we spent two hours with our Evita and we will have at least another two fittings with her... all I can say is thank goodness she is a delight.  She mentioned that there were a few videos of her on youTube that she can't bring herself to watch... however I decided to look her up and found the video at the bottom... the one good thing about doing a stressful fitting week is that the cast is fun and being with a bunch of theatricals isn't so bad most of the time.

Thank You Google!

I Googled my name and found that I got a mention for my Octopus costumes in a theater review;



It's only one line, but hey my costumes were "a visual treat"

Awesome!

Clothing word of the Day

Since I am doing Sweeney Todd right now I was thrilled to learn This word;

Brought to you via Dictionary.com;

tatterdemalion \tat-uhr-dih-MAYL-yuhn; -MAY-lee-uhn\, noun:
1. A person dressed in tattered or ragged clothing; a ragamuffin.

adjective:
1. Tattered; ragged.

Last time peasant blouses surfaced, in the 1960s and '70s, they were part of an epidemic of Indian bedspread dresses, homemade blue-jean skirts, Army surplus jackets, Greek bookbag purses and love beads, the whole eclectic tatterdemalion mix meant to express egalitarian sentiments and countercultural solidarity with underdogs everywhere.
-- Patricia McLaughlin, "The peasant look", Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, April 25, 1999