Scenes of Paige Faure playing Cinderella on Broadway with Victoria Clark. The costumes were designed by William Ivey Long who won the Tony for his work.
No, you can see that when she first spins it has a simple white skirt. Then she goes to the tree, grabs something and twists, she's putting on the very full ballgown skirt and fastening it around her waist.
@@jasonmatthews534 it’s not lol. The inside of her skirt is tree material, it’s inside out on the tree to blend in and she just reverses it onto her waist
The second transformation will always be better. The first one, I understand they had to do something to get that puffy bottom but the fact she has to basically run around the stage to go get the bottom has always bothered me. The second one though is so perfect.
It's almost like magic. The changing is subtle.. the dress is regal.. the designer had done brilliant job on it. IMHO the actresses could try to not wobble too much (something like ballet) so it can elevate that magical factor
after the first ball (white dress) when ella drops the slipper, instead of leaving it, she takes it. So the prince hosts a banquet. Gabbie, one of ella's stepsisters actually treats ella with respect. She is going to work in the village with her BF so she gives ella her ball gown, but the step mom ruins it (tatters and rags) so the godmother comes in and turns her tatters into a gold dress, at the end, ella purposely leaves the slipper so the prince can find her
The dress used at the Tonys made for a more impressive transformation, but it was heavy - too heavy for all the dancing that Cinderella does in the peasant costume before the transformation scene. That's the explanation I heard Laura Osnes give - there may be other more technical reasons that the normal show method was more practical.
It's a much less stable transformation, practically spring loaded because of the hoop rigged up inside. On one hand, it makes the transformation happen super fast one activated. On the other, it could potentially activate when you don't mean it to during movement/dancing! It probably also is a bit harder to rig in a hurry.
@@sumaphelia I have a seen a non Broadway theatre work that one out. Having a stand in of the peasant dress to wear before the transformation scene that isn't rigged. And probably in a scene before the actual transformation they switch costumes to the rigged one. Something Broadway could do as well.
@@YannisGoedermans Absolutely! I've done it for several productions myself, and they do this in the Broadway show as well. In fact, you might notice in the Macy's Thanksgiving video, they do a version of this where in one shot Laura is wearing the un-rigged dress, and then in the next shot, she's wearing the trick dress with the hoop (not her usual trick dress, which is only a partial transformation as part of her full change, assisted by the tree). Now, you can see even this had to be pre-filmed, because the hoopskirt/Tony version is simply that volatile, I mean she literally looks like a trussed up chicken. In my opinion, it's simply too much of a risk, and probably takes a good deal more time to rig carefully than the 90 seconds they are allotted in the show.
Laura was in the show from mid January 2013 until late January 2014 before being replaced by Carly Rae Jepsen for 5 months. Between June/July 2014 and September 2014, Paige Faure (the one in this video) temporarily played Cinderella on Broadway before starring as Cinderella in the first US national tour of the show. Finally, KeKe Palmer joined as Cinderella in September 2014 until the show closed at the beginning of January 2015.
