The Guthrie Theater will present Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesselring's classic comedy that kills with kindness. As previously announced, the incomparable Sally Wingert returns to the Guthrie stage for the first time since last season's Faith Healer, joining acclaimed comedienne and Broadway veteran Kristine Nielsen to play the pair of well-meaning sisters, Martha and Abby Brewster, respectively. The production, which marks the 70th anniversary of a play The New York Times called 'so funny that none of us will ever forget it,' will be directed by Joe Dowling and presented at the Guthrie for the first time since 1975
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Wicked tour has just announced it will welcome Jessica Vosk as Elphaba and Kristen Martin as Nessarose beginning tonight, September 7 at The Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend. Check out a first look at Vosk and Martin in action below!
Pioneer Theatre Company's production of the Tony-winning musical adaptation of the Disney hit NEWSIES opens tonight, December 1st, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in costume below!
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Patrick Willingham) announced today that it will extend Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's beloved musical INTO THE WOODS one final week through Saturday, September 1. The Shakespeare in the Park production, part of The Public's 50th Anniversary season at the Delacorte, will officially open on Thursday, August 9.
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From the classic ghost to the upside-down man, you should be able to DIY these fun looks with limited resources in just a flash.
In 1907, the Lumiere brothers brought a dazzling new color to photography, with the invention of the autochrome. National Geographic adopted the medium for its pages and now, more than 100 years later, has unearthed originals for an exhibition.
?Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as...as a Fiddler on the Roof,? announces Tevye, a humble milkman from the Russian village of Anatevka. So begins a tale of love and laughter, devotion and defiance, and changing traditions. The Tony Award® winning Fiddler on the Roof continues to capture the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal. This North American Tour offers audiences a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Jerome Robbins? original Broadway direction and choreography, complete with the star of the original West End production and the 1971 film, Chaim Topol. A Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation, it will play at San Diego Civic Theatre, July 14 ? 19, 2009.
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Broadway veterans Norm Lewis and Tamyra Gray have just stepped into the roles of Agwe and Papa Ge, in Once on This Island.
The laughter has begun! Paper Mill Playhouse, recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony® Award, presents the comedy by Ken Ludwig, A Comedy of Tenors, the hilarious sequel to the Tony® Award-winning comedy Lend Me a Tenor.
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For its 2009 season, The Shaw takes on a monumental and historic project with full productions of each play in Noel Coward?s famous Tonight at 8:30 collection. The Shaw?s 2009 productions represent the first time all ten short plays have been performed in repertory by a professional company since they were first produced by London?s Phoenix Theatre in 1935-36. The plays will be performed in sets of three, one on each of the Festival?s Niagara-on-the-Lake stages, with the tenth, the rarely produced Star Chamber, being the lunchtime production in the Royal George. And to celebrate this idea for the event that it is, on two separate occasions, we will present all ten in one day ? an event we are appropriately naming ?Mad Dogs and Englishmen?.
Cortland Repertory Theatre's third production in their 44th annual summer season is the regional theatre premiere of the 'creepy, kooky and all together ookie' musical 'The Addams Family', based on the iconic characters of TV, movies, and New Yorker cartoons drawn by Charles Addams. A recent show on Broadway, this new musical has a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. Performances of CRT's production will run from tonight, July 8, through July 25, 2015. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below!
Westchester Broadway Theatre presents Fiddler On The Roof, with Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics Sheldon Harnick and Book by Joseph Stein. This production is directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford with musical direction by Leo P. Carusone. The show runs now through November 25, 2012, and returns January 3 - February 3, 2013, starring Bill Nolte as Tevye. Get a first look at the cast onstage in the photos below!
Theater at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, will present a heartwarming production of the two-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Audiences can enjoy the fun now through August 18 as Theater at the Center spells out another winner with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Featuring witty and endearing music and lyrics by William Finn and a delightful book by Rachel Sheinkin, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is the touching story of a group of prepubescent overachievers who are pitted against one another in the spelling challenge of a lifetime. Check out a first look below!
McCall 1585; ©1950; Girls' Dutch Maid Costume. McCalls 1951 Annual Gift Buying Guide Add a photo to the gallery by clicking the "modify" button below. This photo is from MCCALL'S NEEDLEWORK & CRAFTS ANNUAL, Vol II, 1951. The boy's costume is McCall 1584. [insert your username, and make sure your preferences allow for people to contact you via e-mail. Do not list your email address here!]
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Broadway veterans Norm Lewis and Tamyra Gray have just stepped into the roles of Agwe and Papa Ge, in Once on This Island.
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Broadway veterans Norm Lewis and Tamyra Gray have just stepped into the roles of Agwe and Papa Ge, in Once on This Island.
Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Betsy Wolfe (in photos) play four friends at different points in their lives, in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, the first New York City Center Encores! production of the season. Merrily We Roll Along, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, will be directed by James Lapine with music direction by Rob Berman and musical staging by Dan Knechtges. Merrily has been extended for a two-week run and will play for 15 performances, February 8-19, 2012, at New York City Center 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.
Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA is an epic tale of love, loyalty and betrayal, with an exhilarating Tony and Grammy Award winning score by Elton John & Tim Rice.
BroadwayWorld Philippines correspondent Bing Shimizu was in the midst of the huge crowd that gathered during the two live concert performances celebrating epic musical LES MISÉRABLES 25th anniversary at the O2 Arena, Greenwich, South-East London on Sunday, October 3, 2010. Ms. Shimizu, a loyal supporter of the Pride of the Philippines and Tony winner Lea Salonga, shares her own photographs of some of the concert's highlights to avid BroadwayWorld.com readers.
Cameron Mackintosh announced on stage at the Manchester Palace at the end of last evening's performance of Oliver! (in which Barks is currently playing Nancy) that she is set to play Eponine in the film version of Les Miserables - the role she played at the 25th anniversary concert and on stage in London. Here, we take a look back at Barks - on stage and off!
First Stage will fuel the imaginations of audiences young and old with their next 2019/20 mainstage production, A WRINKLE IN TIME, based on the bestselling book by author Madeleine L'Engle and adapted for the stage by John Glore.
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Hello all, I have been rather neglecting Germany, because of a lack of comprehensive information. I will try to remedy that now that I have expanded my German library, and am now in the possesion of somewhat more information. Today I will talk a bit about the costume of Lower Franconia, with special focus on the costume of Ochsenfurter Gau, which is the most colorful and elaborate version of this costume. This costume is sometimes presented as being 'Bavarian', which is technically true, but rather misleading. The current State of Bavaria in Germany consists of the contiguous parts of the old Kingdom of Bavaria, which includes, besides Bavaria proper, Schwabia, Oberpfaltz, and Franconia. Bavaria is divided into two districts, Upper and Lower, and Franconia into three, Upper, Middle, and Lower. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria The costume which usually comes to mind when we think about 'Bavaria' is that of Upper Bavaria, with Lederhosen. The other areas each have a distinct and separate costume tradition. Lower Franconia, or Unterfranken, is in the northwest corner of the State of Bavaria, far away from the land of Lederhosen, and rather close to the center of Germany. This area is distinguished as being one of the areas in Germany in which the folk costume is still a living tradition, in that there are still some older women who never wear anything else. As in any living, or near living tradition, there are many forms of the costume, I will be focusing on the costume of the high feast days, as the most colorful and distinct. Here is the one image which I have been able to find which shows the constituent parts of the costume. This is a less dressy version, in that the outer pieces are made of solid color fabrics. From left to right, linen chemise and underskirt with padded bands on the hem [Wattrock]. kerchief and second underskirt, this one worn under the first one, bodice with sleeves [Mutze], and top skirt, shawl and apron, fingerless gloves and bag, stockings and shoes. Most of the various forms of the costume are basically the same, differing only in the materials used. The two exceptions are the everyday working costume, which consists of cotton top, skirt, and apron, and the dancing costume in which a sleeveless bodice replaces the bodice with sleeves. Here are photos of the various forms of the costume. Note how they become progressively less ornamented. 1. Wedding costume. The high headdress is not often seen in Ochsenfurt these days, but is retained in other parts Lower Franconia. 2. High feast day costume. Less ornamentation on the apron, which is made of a brocade with smaller patterns. 3. Sunday costume. 4. Middle Feast day costume. 5. Mourning costume. As in many places, this is worn for a full year after the death of an immediate family member on all dress up occasions. 6. Half Mourning costume. This is worn after the period of full mourning, or upon the death of people who are not immediate family. There are prescribed rules for this. 7. 'Traveling' costume. This is worn when traveling away from your home village. In the local dialect it is called the 'from us' costume.This has a dressy version of the everyday top instead of the Mutze. 8. Everyday work costume. This is all of cotton or linen, and is often blue. It can be in many other colors, however. The dancing costume is less heavy and hot, and is often worn by younger women. The mutze is replaced by a sleeveless bodice and the sleeves of the chemise are visible.. It may seem odd that the ornamentation on the bodice is covered by the shawl. This is because the shawl is a relatively new part of the costume, being derived from city fashions of the late 1800's. The ornamented bodice is older than that. It often happens that new items introduced into a Folk Costume take precedence over older items. Here is a closeup of the dance bodice from Unterelsbach. This girl is wearing the Haube plopped on top of a modern hairstyle, with the curls spilling out the front. This clearly shows that the costume is no longer a living tradition in her area. This would never have been tolerated otherwise, the hair should be put up under the Haube. In Ochsenfurt on dressy occasions, the hair is braided from 9 to 11 strands so that it forms a wide ribbon, the ends of which are then pinned to the top of the head. This is combined with a hairband across the front of the head [Samtband], and a comb and hairpins ornamenting the ends of the zoepfen where they are attached to the crown. This may be why the Haube has mostly been replaced by a kerchief in the Ochsenfurt area. This last photo above was taken in 1956. The bodice is cut low in front, and the front and lower sleeves are ornamented. In earlier times with gold or silver embroidery, today mostly with sequins and braid, and large costly metal buttons. Fingerless gloves with beads knitted in are worn on formal occasions. The peaked tops of the sleeves, the Mutzen, are stiffened with cardboard inserts. The shawl is worn over the bodice, but the ends are tucked under the front. The shawl is pinned with a brooch, and an elaborate cross is worn over it. Note that the M on the apron formed by the application of ribbon is typical of the Ochsenfurt area. In other parts of Lower Franconia this is not found. The apron is made of brocade, damask or satin, except for everyday. Ochsenfurt area. Note that the little girl does not wear the bodice with the Mutze. Euerfeld.in the Geldersheim costume area. The skirt is pleated, with two rows of blue ribbon appliqued above the hem. It is in various colors from black through red, depending on the occasion. The everyday work costume alone is gathered rather than pleated. The hem varies from ankle to mid or upper calf, depending on taste and age. the wadded hems of the cotton underskirt help the skirt to stand out. in the 1930's. In 1957. In 1976. White home knitted stockings in a variety of patterns are worn, along with low leather shoes. a basket completes the outfit, as in many parts of Germany and France. A prayer book and rosary are considered to be part of the jewelry which accompanies the costume. Rings, earrings, and other pieces are also worn. The men's costume consists of a linen shirt, white knee stockings, low black leather shoes, yellow chamois leather knickers, red vest with embroidery and/or braid on the left side with many buttons, a short jacket with many buttons or a long frock coat, depending on the formality of the occasion, and a tricorn hat or a round hat with fur around the edge. This photo is not from Ochsenfurt, as you can see, but the men's costume is similar over Lower Franconia. The everyday work outfit of both men and women was simple. Thank you for reading. I hope that you have found this to be interesting and informative. I will close with some more images of this costume. R. Kozak Brides often wear a crown of glass beads rather than the Haube. A video showing the variations of the Ochsenfurter Gau costume, in German. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTT8TyfTt7k Email: [email protected] Source Material: Reinhard Worschech, 'Trachten in Bayern 2 Unterfranken', Wuerzburg, Germany, 1982 Debionne/Meissner, 'Die Schoensten Deutschen Trachten, Munich, 1987 Josef Duenninger, 'Deutsche Trachten', Berlin, 1930's? Erich Retzlaf-Duesseldorf, 'Deutsche Trachten', Leipzig, 1397 Oswald Erich, 'Deutsche Volkstrachten', Leipzig, 1934
Below is a gallery of photos and posters from the 1975 adaptation of George MacDonald Fraser's 1970 novel, "ROYAL FLASH" . Malcolm McDowell starred as the famous British Army officer/scoundrel, Harry Flashman who becomes engulfed in the Schleswig-Holstein Question in 1848. Oliver Reed, Alan Bates,…
Pioneer Theatre Company's production of the Tony-winning musical adaptation of the Disney hit NEWSIES opens tonight, December 1st, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in costume below!
British-born actor Michael York will appear as narrator of a staged concert performance of the Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Musical nominee 'A Tale of Two Cities' to be Broadcast Nationally on Public Television beginning on Thanksgiving Day November 26th, 2009 at 9pm. In NY the show will be first Broadcast on NJN December Sunday December 6th at 4:30pm and again Friday December 11th at 8pm.
OK, these are the top five historical costume movies and TV shows I’M looking forward to in 2016! We know that Downton Abbey is done for, Outlander will head to France for its second season, …
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In 1907, the Lumiere brothers brought a dazzling new color to photography, with the invention of the autochrome. National Geographic adopted the medium for its pages and now, more than 100 years later, has unearthed originals for an exhibition.
