Where: Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, downtown Appleton What: North American tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” 249, on Twitter a behind-the-scenes glimpse at “Phantom” costumes at. “We have it kind of down to a science,” said actress Jacquelynne Fontaine, who plays Carlotta in the production.įontaine and two other female cast members have the luxury of having the same dresser travel with them to each venue, and they have a special changing area, she said.Įver wonder how all the costumes are kept so clean? Well, the actual clothes don’t touch the body that much, Fleming said.Įveryone in the cast has at least one set of undergarments that gets washed the morning after every performance.Īs clothes come out of the dryer, the dressers get the laundry for their people so they have a fresh set before each show.
So backstage is really tightly choreographed.” You grab your laundry basket and your chair and your sheet and you just go because some big prop or set piece is going to come rumbling through where you just were. “You get them redressed and then you clear. “And you’re holding the costume they need to go into,” Fleming said. There is a chair for the actor to use and a laundry basket where previously-worn clothes are discarded. The audience will never see it, but it’s something you do wrong on purpose because it makes it easier to do the actual change.”Ī sheet is placed on the floor to keep all costumes clean. “Sometimes you will literally, on purpose, put a black snap on a white vest because you can see it in the dark better. “You have to be able to do it in the dark by Braille because there’s not a lot of light back stage,” Fleming added. “Meanwhile, I’m getting a vest on and they’re snapping. “Here’s your tie, and it’s already tied and I slip it over my head,” Jacoby said.
He focuses on one thing while two dressers do everything else. is rigged with Velcro because that’s a quick in.”īen Jacoby, who plays Raoul, said the between-scenes costume change is all about teamwork. “His military jacket has closures down the center so that it comes off really, really fast,” Fleming said.
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