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Easier to design costumes for an era 20 years ago or 200 years ago or 2000 years ago? When the audience can be offended by the way an era is presented, it opens up lots of new doors and creates new issues about what is onstage. This, I would imagine, could either help or hurt a show. It can certainly get the audience more personally invested, but at the same time, it could distract the audience by serving as a reminder of real life, and thus pulling them away from the storytelling onstage.
There's some part of me thats hurt by the fact that there is a stage musical based off an Adam Sandler film...
It an interesting issue that they tried to not make fun of the '80s. The style of the era was very rediculous, and seemed to accept this. It does pose an interesting challenge not to go too far, though. The '80s is so stylized and so garish that it is all together so easy to make the clothing come off as humorous instead of realistic. Where is the line between designer interpretation and reckless fashion endangerment drawn?
I am pleasantly surprised that they chose to stick to costumes that didn't scream 80s. Its annoying when desginers choose outfits simply because its the stereotype for the era. It is more fitting, I think, to choose specific pieces for the entire outfit that make a statement; its more pleasing to the eye and can be very unique to that particular character. Props to them.
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Easier to design costumes for an era 20 years ago or 200 years ago or 2000 years ago?
When the audience can be offended by the way an era is presented, it opens up lots of new doors and creates new issues about what is onstage. This, I would imagine, could either help or hurt a show. It can certainly get the audience more personally invested, but at the same time, it could distract the audience by serving as a reminder of real life, and thus pulling them away from the storytelling onstage.
There's some part of me thats hurt by the fact that there is a stage musical based off an Adam Sandler film...
It an interesting issue that they tried to not make fun of the '80s. The style of the era was very rediculous, and seemed to accept this. It does pose an interesting challenge not to go too far, though. The '80s is so stylized and so garish that it is all together so easy to make the clothing come off as humorous instead of realistic. Where is the line between designer interpretation and reckless fashion endangerment drawn?
-Maddie Keller
I am pleasantly surprised that they chose to stick to costumes that didn't scream 80s. Its annoying when desginers choose outfits simply because its the stereotype for the era. It is more fitting, I think, to choose specific pieces for the entire outfit that make a statement; its more pleasing to the eye and can be very unique to that particular character. Props to them.
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