Met with the costume designer in her half-hour free before she left for Vegas where she is costuming another show. We met at a Starbucks near Penn Station – which was packed. We had no time to spare. I’ve never met her. We were like: “Hi! How are you! Okay … so … costumes!” We sat down (found seats, amazing) – and DIDN’T order. Nobody had a heart attack about this. We then looked over costume sketches, and photographs, and discussed – hair, shoes, glasses, and jewelry. Accessories, basically. I love it because I’ve never met this woman, but it doesn’t matter. We speak the same language. The language of theatre. I showed her some photographs that struck ME as the way I wanted to go (I had been nervous she would take the character another way – clothes are so important – and I had put my two cents in with the director at the beginning of rehearsal) – so I’m like: “And here … see where the skirt falls on her calves? That’s sort of what I’m thinking … and definitely sensibile shoes – maybe like this?” Showing photographs – just pieces of people – a shoe here, a scarf there, a skirt there … She showed me her sketches (we were amazingly in sync – yay!) – and then – right in the middle of the throng of Starbucks patrons – she took my measurements.<\/p>\n
Why does this make me laugh …<\/p>\n
It just does. The absurdity of it, and how we just started to do what we needed to do, regardless of how … uhm … bizarre it must have seemed, to have one woman measure another woman’s inseam in the middle of a midtown Starbucks.<\/p>\n
But I’m telling you: it was half an hour and it was so productive I felt like the energy we generated could sustain the power on the island of Manhattan for a good 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Love work. And I love people who are IN my line of work, every aspect of it – people who are serious and committed to their part of the puzzle.<\/p>\n
It’s the best business in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Met with the costume designer in her half-hour free before she left for Vegas where she is costuming another show. We met at a Starbucks near Penn Station – which was packed. We had no time to spare. I’ve never … Continue reading