Annemiek



​ **Wicked was first performed on broadway in october in 2003. Since then it has been performed in londons west end, universal studios japan, Germany and Australia, in Melbourne and currently Sydney. the costumes in wicked were designed by Susan Hilferty who has designed over 300 different productions. There is appoximately 263 costumes in each new production of wicked. these are based on 180 unique designs. Some costumes have doubles for understudies and standbys, the Australian producer John Frost said "there 450 costumes and 90 wigs." No two uniforms from shiz are the same. Wicked won a tony award for best costume design

My favourite costume is the dress that Elphaba wears in the second act. The bodice of this dress is made of as many as 20 different pieces of fabric. ** E**ach piece is cut into only about 3" and then quilted together. the ruffles in the skirt of the dress require 40 yards, 36.5 metres, of fabric. One of the other costumes i like is Glinda's bubble dress. There are 25 differnt sequins used in this dress. Glinda's dress is supposed to be related to the air and to look like a wedding dress.**


 * [|image of Elphaba's dress]

[|image of Glinda's dress]

here is a webiste with pictures of designs for the costumes of wicked. []

 Art elements-colour:

One of the art elements used in these artworks is colour. Colour has been used to create contrast with different characters and scenes. Elphaba wears a lot of dark colours, mainly black. Whereas Glinda wears bright colours whites, pinks and yellows.the costumes that the chorus wears also have contrast. the costumes in the scene at the emerald city are bright greens of many different shades (this is one of the only scene where green is used in costuming, this creates effect.) the costumes that the citizens of oz where are earthly colours like brown,red orange. The colour of the costumes also help descibe the personality of each character. E.G. Glinda wears very bright colours and she also has a bright, perky and bubbly personality. The emerald city costumes show that the citizens of the emerald city are bright people and the ozians are more serious and not as bright.


 * Art elements-texture :**

**Another art element that has been used in the costumes is texture. Since these are 3 dimensional artworks if they didnt have any texture, or they all had the same texture, they would not look effective on stage. In different costumes texture has been used in a different way. For instance the dress that Eplaba wears to the emerald city has very subtle texture so you have to look more carefully to see it. Her dress that she wears during the second act has very obvious texture that is easy to see especially on the skirt because of the ruffles. Many of the costumes that the other leads wear have reasonably smooth texture such as some of Glinda's costumes, the wizard and Fiyero's.Nessarose's costume that she wears in the second act has texture that has contrast.Most of the dress is quite smooth but then the collar is lace which feels and looks different to the rest of the dress.In the emerald city the costumes also have texture that has contrast. Such as one dress that is smooth until you get near the top where around the shoulder there are ruffles.**

[|image of Nessarose's dress]

**Materials:**

**The materials that are used in these artworks are many things like lace and loads of other fabrics. Some of the costumes that the citizens of oz wear look like they made of fur. Many small things have been used like sequins which were used on Glinda's dress qhich make it sparkle under the lights, buttons which have been used on jackets. There is also a chain used in the costume that the wizard wears.Hats have also been used. Many thngs that you wouldn't normally notice have been used like on the dress that Glinda weras to the party. The stitching in the dress are actually rainbow but you wouldnt notice it unless you were up close**.


 * Bibliography: **

[] []) [] [] [] [] me and Penny McNamee (Nessarose) me and Lucy Durack (Glinda) me and Rob Mills (Fiyero )