This is Melissa Swanson, costume designer for Room Service and The Bop She Bops. Today I wanted to share with you the toughest challenge we costumers had while constructing for our current show, The Goodbye Girl. This challege was, of course, the Giant Food Costumes! For those of you who have seen our production, I am referring to the dancing rib-eye steak, french fries, and ice cream cone.
Em Rossi, the designer for The Goodbye Girl, developed a strategy to construct these mascots out of ordinary foam mattress pads, headliner foam, a bit of wire, and lots and lots of hot melt glue.
Pictured here is the inside of the ice cream. I built a wire skeleton for the ice cream scoop in order to keep its shape while Katie Lemos was dancing in it.
This process kept us stuck inside these costumes for many hours while gluing each piece together.
After gluing everything together we spent a day in a mist of spray paint behind the opera house.
Lastly, we added the finishing details with some acrylic paints, and lots of glitter.All three of us built one. Em Rossi made the fries, while Kat Reid (popcorn designer) built the rib-eye, and I tackled the delicious ice cream cone.
So far in the season these costumes were the toughest to build, and yet the most fun. But perhaps not for our diets, considering they caused many ice cream and french fry cravings (not so-much for raw meat).
If you have not seen these costumes in action there are still three more performances; tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm.
The next show will be The Bop She Bops, designed by me. Here is a sneak peak of the costumes for Tibbits last summer performance.
Having designed costumes twice for Tibbits I have to say CONGRATULATIONS and AWESOME solution to a really tough challenge. Looks like it was a great show.
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