Showcase: Costumes

As we have yet to find out the actual story for our showcase, it is difficult to come up with any costume ideas. However, I have two ideas that we can use regardless of the story because they are flexible and can relate to anything that we do.

The first idea I had was for everyone to dress as their stereotype. As the purpose and I guess "theme" of the play is cultural stereotypes, we can't go wrong with having everyone dress as their stereotype. At the same time, stereotypes can be very entertaining. The good part about this idea is that a lot of costumes/cultural clothing that we may need, will most likely be available in either the costume department at school or in an ensemble members wardrobe at home. Therefore, we most likely wouldn't have to spend a lot of money. The only problem with this idea is that there will be a lot of dancing and it may not be easy to dance in all of the "stereotype costumes".

The second idea was actually suggested to me by Ivanna and together we developed it and finalized it to what it is now. The idea is to have each ensemble member in a different colour t shirt, black shorts, black converse and tye dye knee high socks that are the same colour as their t shirt. This idea is easy to move in and will therefore not cause any problems/restraints when it comes to the dancing. Another good thing about this idea is that it is so "open ended" that it can relate to any direction that the play goes. We made a list of all of the ensemble members and the colours that they would be. We chose the colours based on personality.

Ivanna - Green

Tegan - Aqua Blue

Emily C. - Orange

Julia H. - Purple

Julia S. - Lilac

Leah B. - Navy Blue

Connor - Gray

Tristan - Red

Aaron - White

Lorenzo - Yellow

Alejandro - undecided

Amazon has all of the t shirts and socks that we would need for this idea and they are all relatively cheap. The t shirts would be the one below. It comes in every colour that we would need it.

The socks would be the socks in the image below. These too come in every colour that we would need.

All together this would cost about $170.00 to get all of the t shirts and the socks. This is assuming that all girls and guys have a pair of black shorts. However, I am assuming that they do because it is a pretty standard thing to have and they should definitely get some if they don't just for personal/everyday use. I am also assuming that all girls and guys have a pair of black converse. I am pretty sure that all of the girls do. However, I also think that there are some in the costume department at AIS that we might be able to borrow.

In terms of the t shirts, they would most likely be fine for the guys. However, girls could spice them up a bit and maybe do a one shoulder thing or something like that. They are like the t shirts that we get for the musical every year. They are just standard/classic t shirts.

I have shared these two ideas with the other members of the costume committee (Julia Henry and Julia Schlicht) and they like them.