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The Dresser: A Look Backstage at The Matchmaker
This blog post is Emily Schweich, a sophomore Broadcast Journalism major.
Photo by Stan Barouh
Vibrant costumes and perfectly coiffed hairstyles shone on the Kay Theatre stage as the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presented Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker this October. As the actors moved effortlessly around the stage in their 1880s attire, one could hardly believe that many of them walked into the dressing room bare-faced, wearing sweatpants and some ponytails, just an hour before the show.
It’s like this pressure hour. They come in in sweatpants, with no makeup on, no pin curls, nothing. They have to completely redo their hair, do their face and put on this multi-layered, multi-piece costume.
If you could ask one person from the event one question, who and what would it be? October 30, 2013
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