This production of Comedy of Errors has a few costume firsts for me. It's the first time i'll be wearing a wig on stage and the first time i've worn a break-away costume.
First i'll talk about the more interesting: break-away clothes. Both the shirt and pants have been designed to be easily pulled off in one quick motion. The shirt has one velcro seems running down the back along my spine. It you grab the front collar and pull it straight out, it comes right off. The pants have had both outer seems replaced with velcro while the inner one remains intact. Thus if you put a thumb in a belt loop and give a good tug, they come popping off. I wish i had a few of my own break-away outfits so i could come home after these late rehearsals and go right to bed.
Now on to the wig. My "identical twin" has long hair, so rather than giving him a trim to make us look a bit more similar, i get to put on a hair piece. To get the length needed i thought i might be wearing some sort of female wig but actually the label referred to it as a "Beethoven" wig. What horrible, scratchy, squeezy, itchy thing is a wig. The bobby pins holding it to my head are the most painful part. They are there to keep the hair out of my face but so far they have been unsuccessful. It's weird having long hair; i now see why girls are constantly flipping their locks behind their ears. You'd think i be happy to get it off at the end of the show, but then it leaves my head all feeling weird. Wig hair is not very flattering.
Opening night is Thursday. Wish us luck!
Posted by Matthew at October 4, 2004 11:34 PM