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| SFO 2005-2006 Season L'Italiana in Algeri |
| I saw no audience members who tried to match the costumes, in this show designed with sexy flair by David C. Woolard (Review-Rocky Horror Picture Show) |
| David C. Woolard's sketch
for usherette uniforms |
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| David C. Woolard�s colorful costumes, updated the story to the early 20th century(Review L'Italiana in Algeri) |
| David C. Woolard's tellingly appropriate costumes (Review The Day Emily Married) |
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| David C. Woolard, The Rocky Horror Show
Got a rock 'n' roll show and need a costume designer? Woolard's your man �he was Tony and Olivier nominated for The Who's Tommy and has lent his talents to Off-Broadway's The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show and Godspell. His gothy S&M designs for Rocky Horror contrast nicely with his more down-to-earth work on Broadway's Wait Until Dark, The Young Man From Atlanta, A Few Good Men and Marlene. His most recent musical was Manhattan Theatre Club's revue newyorkers. (Review) |
| Analysis: Each designer had their own special challenges to overcome� Woolard needed to wink at a film version that imprinted Tim Curry in fishnets onto the nation's brain, but create his own vision of sweet transvestite and innocent teenagers; |
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| Stephanie Blythe flies into Rossini's Algeria. Photo Ken Howard (Review) |
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| David C. Woolard* Costume Designer |
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| My copies of the sketches of the costumes in the program for the SFO L'Italiana in Algeri - you can see the middle costume completed in above photo. |
| Color, light and texture create the blend of fantasy and adventure, that highten the comedy of this opera with its two worlds and their cultures colliding onstage. Inspired by Erte - 2 the Art Nuvo Russian fashion and costume designer, Woolard found ways to create Isabella's western persona with clean, modern, yet feminine lines, and then artfully evolve her appearance as she passes into the world of the harem, and blends in while taking control of the situation. Painters Osman Hamdy Bey, Frank Dillon and Jean Francois Portaels gave Woolard ideas for the world inside Mustafa's palace. |