Hidey-ho... Stefanie here. Last Wednesday we had the Meet & Greet for Jonathan Moscone's production of An Ideal Husband. For those of you who don't know, the Meet & Greet happens on the first day of a show's rehearsals. The whole staff (plus a smattering of board members, donors, and other folks who rate) get together with the new show's cast and crew to hear and see presentations by the director, set designer, costume designer, and any other designers present. Then they kick all of us out and jump into their first read-through.
For An Ideal Husband, Moscone is reuniting with his award-winning Man and Superman set designer, Annie Smart, and working with Meg Neville, who captured the beautiful desperation of the pre-Depression era with her King Lear costumes last season. Jon's speech was a stunner, a fascinating examination of how the personal and political intersect in the lives of the powerful; watch this space for a podcast of it. During Meg's costume presentation, we learned that Gertrude Chiltern (Julie Eccles) will be a "Grace Kelly type" with sleek blond hair and the "Victorian version of a Chanel suit," and that the chic villainess Mrs. Cheveley will be fresh from Vienna in the latest, most avant-garde couture, which, in this case means no corset (how scandalous!) and fabrics inspired by the art of Gustav Klimt.
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