Starring the Baby-sitters Club! Part 2!
Hey, lovelies! I've been feeling productive lately for a miraculous change and just had to work on a snark. I think it's because I finally made a playlist of all my fave songs and listening to good music always puts me in a working mood. And I gotta say, this book is a lot funnier than I remember. I used to love it for the theater angle but now I
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WHICH IS REASONABLE. It actually is. Also it might be a lie he told her to make her feel better. Didn't she only do so-so at singing in her audition? Also she's supposed to be more girly while Kristy is more of a tom-boy and might make a more believable boy.
Also Peter is traditionally played by a woman because women can play long boys better than men can, and until the play Annie, lead roles (like Peter and Wendy, but not the smaller roles of Michael and John) that were children usually went to adults for the reason that adults are better suited to the pressure. Also children are unpredictable. Kristen Vigard, the first Annie, was replaced after just a week because her performances on stage ended up being "too sweet" for a street-toughened orphan.
At SMS (why isn't the play taking place at SHS?)
For the convenience of the BSC.
When she's done doing that, she hears Jackie say oops. She finds him hanging from some of the ropes holding up the sets and asks him how he got up there.
The lack of adult supervision in these books is astounding.
she thought she'd be 'sitting in a room somewhere backstage, surrounded by lengths of fabric, yards of lace, containers of sequins and beads. I would be seated at an ancient Singer sewing machine, piecing together a costume that I would later cover with sequins, sewn on by hand'.
That's adorable. Unrealistic for this how, but adorable. When I did costumes for The Producers, we actually were like this, and it was amazing. Only sequins usually got glued on because of time constraints. We also used commercial Jukis instead of ancient Singers. I have a Singer from 1891. It's amazing.
But Friday comes along and she finds that her first assignment is to measure the cast. Even the boys.
Usually adults do the measuring both for accuracy and to prevent a situation of a kid claiming to be inappropriately touched or made to feel uncomfortable by being touched in certain areas.
Here's a question to all you lucky gals with theater experience. Does this happen?
Hell to the FUCK NO. I've done many shows from high school to professional.
I personally have made multiple versions of Belle's gold ballgown for theaters in a couple states, her pink "Something There" gown and cloak, and her blue provincial. I've made the costumes for Cosette in Les Mis, and Mary Poppins's Jolly Holiday gown. I've been involved in productions that were entirely out of the theater's costume closets (Pajama Game, which was for chance to delve into that theater's vast vintage collection). So. I kinda have experience. :)
When possible, costumes are sourced from what's on hand already. When what's needed isn't on hand, we consider if it's more cost-efficient to make the costumes, or to rent. If it's a show likely to be done again, it may make more sense to make. We did do Little Mermaid Jr. from scratch because that's a production done every couple years and renting that sort of costuming would be prohibitive, but that's an unusual situation. We also rent out that production (renting the production means you rent out the costumes and sets you have for it).
When it comes to The Producers, Roger's "Chrysler Building" gown is usually rented. A handful of theaters have that one nailed down, and make bank renting it out. Since Roger says he looks like the Chrysler Building, his gown needs to have a resemblance to it, and be sequined. We rented that gown from a company I think in Utah.
And all this seems to take place over the course of maybe a month.
Less than a snowball's chance in hell.
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