Wardrobe Time!

I know... It's been a while. Bad, bad blogger!
To be honest, it hasn't been that long. But five days in on-line time does seem like forevah (yeah, someone is still focusing very much on her cockney.)
There's so much going on that the majority of the posts I have in store live either on my camera -waiting to be edited- or in my head -waiting to be pulled out by a magic wand (I still have not seen the latest Harry Potter, by the way... Which is upsetting my cockney-Surrey self.)

Getting back into business, though: It's wardrobe time! (AAAAH!)
I was crazy lucky enough to volunteer for wardrobe duties during last semester's production of The Fix.  I like wardrobe duties and I always flip a bit with excitement when this time of rehearsal comes. In the case of Sweeney I would say this was enhanced by two facts:
1. We're dealing with period pieces, and
2. I get to wear them! (Woot!)

The appointment was at the Theatre Development Fund's Costume Collection, which stores approximately a gazillion pieces (over 75,000) from "Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, opera companies and touring companies" (aaawesome!)

This dreamy place is located in a warehouse building on 11th Ave., which -I believe- also made this adventure my first endeavor to what seemed to be the Western-est point of Manhattan (it's not... I know. I'm just trying to give some color to the point.)

Once in, there was such an overdose of wardrobe pieces neatly arranged in loooong hallways that I don't really remember much. I do remember thinking about my friend Amira (*hug*), who would have passed-out in such a dreamy land; and meeting our wonderful costume designer Karen, who managed to led me through the fashion maze all the way to a dressing room.

There, a dress waited for me (well, a dress, an underskirt, a shall and the most comfortable pair of shoes ever conceived for a show.) I tried them all on, and -since my mental shots tend to be defective- I snapped one with an actual camera to keep the moment alive forevah:

What?! Blurry?
Photoshopped?!
Well, duh! I'm not going to ruin the surprise before the show starts! :-p

To compensate though, I leave you with the funniest video of the staff at TDF Costume Collection, which not only shows the purpose of the institution, but the actual premises, way better than my Blackberry can :-p

The End!