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Author Morris, Triffin I

Title A History of the Theatre Costume Business Creators of Character
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (223 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- An Invitation -- Notes on Terminology -- Introduction: How Costumes Have Saved Choreography and Created Characters -- "I Would Hear the Audience Gasp" -- "Something Red and Gold and Glittery" -- "Skill and Sensibility" -- "Blown Away By What She Took From the Sketch" -- "Shared Experiences, Capabilities, and Ability to Deliver on Time" -- "The Happiest Place" -- "I've Never Been Let Down By a Costume" -- "The Stage Was Like a Bowling Alley" -- Keeping Secrets, Distributing Rhinestones
A Beader From Heaven -- "There Is Research, and a Back Story" -- An Inspired Improvisation -- Never More in the Character -- A Fitting Fitting -- Chapter 1 Orientation: How Costumes Became a Business, and How It Works -- From Antiquity to Equity -- The Costume Just Clicked -- True Colors -- The Dancing Jefferson -- Each Costume Built Confidence -- Spending Green for Witches and Ogres -- From Memphis to Newfoundland -- The Place Was Full of Beads and Feathers -- Costumes From Concept to Clothes -- Not Much Like a Pattern From the Fabric Store -- Fit and Finish
Chapter 2 A Stitch in Time: The Early Designer-Drapers -- Designer, Draper, Painter, Teacher, Mother, Lover -- "You Must Be an Astute Businesswoman" -- An Early Atelier -- First to Dress Showgirls in Sports Attire -- Co-branding With Bergdorf-Goodman -- The First Big Integrated Shop -- Casting Changes, Costume Crises -- "Be Back By 4:30!" -- Chapter 3 Thread and Circuses: The Rise and Fall of the Big Rental Shops -- "With the Rubbing of a Lamp" -- Three Generations of Geolys -- Designers, Stars, and a Tattoo -- And Then There Were None -- Send in the Gowns -- Fade to Black
The Goodman Matzo Noodle Building. -- Riding on a Tiger -- Michael-Jon's -- From Divine to Pavarotti -- Chapter 4 The Coming of the Continentals: Lighter Hands for Ballet and Opera -- A Vast Bodice of Work -- Balanchine Invokes the Bard -- "Any Idiot Can Thread a Needle" -- With Style and Grace -- Curating the Fitting -- Chapter 5 Broadway as a Business: The Syndicate, the Shuberts, and the Unions -- The Boys From Syracuse -- Costumes as a Cause Célébre -- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees -- Make Money, Not War
Only a Fool Fights in a Burning House -- From Tenderloin to Times Square -- A Better Business Model -- Common Ground in Vaudeville -- A Chorus Line and Cats -- A Brief History of Vaudeville -- Chapter 6 The British Invasion: The Legacy of Ray Diffen -- An Introduction By Katharine Hepburn -- Painting With Willa -- The Rise of the Designers -- A Break With Sharaff, Over Hats -- Salvaging the Situation With Streisand -- Drama at the Met -- Founding a Dynasty -- Chapter 7 A Leading Lady Herself: Barbara Matera -- Passing the Crown -- "Half Stanley, Half Barbara" -- Rebuilds and Rebilling
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Learning How to Deal With Impossible People
Form Electronic book
Author Morris, Gregory Dl
ISBN 9781351052337
1351052330