Wow Neil, great costumes and sets.  Beautiful work. Must have a dedicated staff of people. Not only do the costumes look absolutely correct in most cases the ACTORS fit the period and the look. While you have some nice looking young ladies in some of those roles, they "fit" the period, the hair styles - the overall look of that period.  I've seen so many shows where the ingenue' wants to be a beauty queen and isn't interested so much in keeping it real and in period.  These ladies while all very nice looking could be cast in a movie of this period. Even that young boy sitting on the stair - very cute and seemingly "into" his character.  You must have a tremendous costumer or if not a permanent fixture - and the costumes are rented - well you evidently found the right rental house for these because they simply look great. Awesome work.

Edited by TonyDi - 4/05/11 at 7:05am

Very nice.  I appreciate how the colors you chose must have popped on stage.  Thanks for posting.

Originally posted by neilfortin Hey TonyDi!   Thanks for checking them out! We actually did this all with two people. Myself and my mom! All of them women's garments we made from scratch using period patterns from a company called Truly Victorian. They are fantastic! They are patterns that have been drafted with modern techniques but usuing actual antique clothing patterns! We even did the hats from buckram and wire and built them fully ourselves. The designs I had come up with made it impossible for us to rent the female stock. All the men's stuff is from our own stock, and from a local college in Rhode Island that I attended and still have a great working relationship with!   Our ladies are great, and love theater ,so they will let us do anything. Since we are small and have almost no budget (This show was completed, sets costumes PR etc for just under 1000 dollars) I also did their hair, and learned a TON!! We only used 1 wig in the show and the rest of the hair was set every night (we had a three weekend run)   Again thanks for checkin us  out! Hope all is well. People STILL talk about that Cyrano nose you lent us!   Neil

Tony-Thanks again! I did get sleep and held a full time job on top of it all.