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| Glinda costumes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| There's no place like home . . . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Act Two | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Glinda's "Evita" Costume | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dubbed the "Evita dress" because of the stance Glinda takes for her entrance in Act Two, this dress has the glamour and elegance of the 1940's and '50's, mixed with the askew funkiness of Oz. Made of blue and green brocade with metallic thread woven in, the dress shimmers onstage. The skirt is again slightly asymmetric, falling lower in the back than in the front, where it hits just below the knee. It is very full and sports a petticoat underneath.The hat is pure '50's: a flat straw oval with a white feather. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The bodice, of course, is the main event with this dress. With the true closure up the back, the faux-closure in the front slants from bottom left to top right(the pointed bodice underneath peeks out at the center-front), featuring seven rhinestone buttons. The left sleeve is turned up and cuffed in green velvet and rhinestone cufflinks, and the collar (peter-pan on the left, pointed on the right) is also green velver, studded with more rhinestones scattered across it. The right arm wears a sleeve of flesh netting scattered with rhinestones and a bracelet. |
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| Glinda with Derrick Williams as Fiyero, on Broadway. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kristen Chenoweth with Norbert Leo Butz as Fiyero. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This version of the dress shows no velvet on the collar and cuffs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Glinda's Air Dress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Eventually this dress will get its own page, when I have more pictures of it! Susan Hilferty, when discussing the iconic looks of Elphaba and Glinda, said that she wanted Elphaba to be a goddess of the earth, and Glinda one of the air. You can certainly see that here, with this gown all covered in stars! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A good pattern for the bodice could be Simplicity 5724 The skirt has four rows of petals, the top layer very small, and the three successive rows each petal is about 12-14 inches long. There are approximately 25 heavily-beaded petals in the skirt. |
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| Kristen Chenoweth, out amoung the people of Oz. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stacie Morgain Lewis in Chicago. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The collar is a wired standing collar, attached to the dress with clear elastic bands in a halter-style. The wand in the above-right is Glinda's opening wand, in the above-left, it's her "fighting wand". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kristen and Idina on Broadway. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Here I am with Stacie Morgain Lewis, backstage in Chicago at the Oriental. She's holding out the Air dress, and you can see how shiny the material is; an iridescent organza, sewn with sequins in blue, silver, and iridescent white. Close-up the dress looks purple and blue and a multitude of other colors . . . and it weighs about sixty pounds, due to the heavy beading and the many, many petticoats under the skirt to give it that full shape! I think it weighed as must as Stacie . . .;) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last updated on 1/2/2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||