HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Every year from her first Halloween until she was twelve, I created extravagant costumes for my god-daughter Jessie. She started out as a beautiful rose, but when she was two years old her mother suggested to me that I dress her as Norma Desmond from SUNSET BOULEVARD.

For the next eleven years I created costumes that salute the leading ladies of Broadway, Hollywood and even Opera.

Norma Desmond from SUNSET BOULEVARD

Dolly Gallagher Levi from HELLO DOLLY

Jessie backstage with the legendary Carol Channing

Belle from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Peter Pan from PETER PAN

That year Jessie was joined by her baby sister Molly as Tinkerbelle

Dorothy from THE WIZARD OF OZ

Cio-Cio San from MADAME BUTTERFLY

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Annie Oakley from ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Christine from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Eliza's Ascot Gown from MY FAIR LADY

Velma Kelly from CHICAGO

Anna and Tuptim from THE KING AND I

ALTAR BOYZ

For the Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls, NY. What a pleasure it was putting this show together. I had assisted Gail Brassard on the original off-Broadway production over 3 years ago, so it was a real treat to revisit and redesign this show in a new production directed by Stafford Arima. I kept "the boyz" in a tight palette of black, blue, silver, and turquoise and I think the show had a great cohesive look for a boy band in 2008.

Matthew

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Mark

Luke

Juan

Abe

GREASE

Frenchy, Teen Angel and ensemble perform

Beauty School Drop-Out

I designed this production of GREASE at the historic Granbury Opera House in Granbury Texas. Stephen Nachamie directed and choreographed. I love GREASE, it is a fun, high energy show and I hope my costumes help bring some of that energy to the stage.

During a production meeting the artistic director Tom Morrissey insisted that the production be splashy and colorful and mentioned fiesta-ware, so I took a little inspiration from that and worked towards creating costumes in a 50's fiesta-ware palette.


Jan, Rizzo, Sandy, Frenchy, Marty and Patty

Miss Lynch and the boys

Sandy and The Pink Ladies

Danny and Sandy sing Summer Nights

Magic Changes

Marty and Sonny

The Slumber Party

Greased Lightning

We Go Together