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This book lists 100 famous musicals categorised into eight costume styles. Applying the book’s crossover system, costumes from one show can be easily altered for any other show in the same category.
Eco-friendly Vintage Fashion Fair at the Oxford Union, St. Michael’s Street (Off Corn Market Street) Oxford, OX1 3JB. Saturday April 19th, 10am to 5pm. The next Oxford Vintage Fashion, Textile and Accessories Fair falls on Saturday April 19th.
I wonder if you need to have a secret yearning to be in drag, to be an amateur dramatics person. There’s just nothing like flouncing around in a long gown, whether it be Cinderella’s finale scene’s bridal version or a nun’s habit – it must be the only time, certainly, you could ever get a man into a frock and make him comfortable in it.
As recently reported in ‘The Stage’, a weekly newspaper for the entertainment industry, the performing arts industry face an alarming shortage of backstage staff due to a huge growth market; “for every one person on stage there is an average of three behind the scenes”. Previously these roles have not been high profile, if indeed people knew they existed and the only training available was at university level or a crash course of work experience.
In the middle of last week a garage/store that Garden Suburb Theatre maintain in Finchley was broken into and a huge number of valuable costumes were stolen. They are asking all societies to keep an eye open in case anyone tries to off load these for sale.
