Alexandra Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 We haven't had a silly topic in awhile. I did the Hallowe'en Party a few years ago, but I think it's one of the posts that got sucked into the Great Beyond. There's this Virtual Hallowe'en Party. Everyone is invited, and asked to come as a figure -- person, role, character -- from ballet. Who will you be? (Answer with costume possibilities more than merely personal favorites in mind, please ) Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 I'd like to attend as Madge, so I could tell everyone's fortune and "stir" up trouble! Link to comment
djb Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 I'd love to be the Swan in Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake," but I'm female, so there might be a slight problem with the costume...I'd just have to go the right party, I guess. Link to comment
Alexandra Posted October 29, 2003 Author Share Posted October 29, 2003 Oh, this is a virtual party, so you can come as any age or gender you want. I'd thought of having a special Mardi Gras party for cross-dressing, though, so you might want to save it for that, djb. Mme. Hermine, Madge is perfect -- the seasonal ballet character! And you can have first dibs on the fortune telling concession!! Link to comment
Hans Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Either the Bluebird from Sleeping Beauty or the Savage from Excelsior...probably the Bluebird. That Savage costume is so revealing. Editing to say: Even better--I'm coming as Erasmus the Troll from Barbie Swan Lake! Well it was that or the talking porcupine... Link to comment
Funny Face Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 This isn't a ballet role. It's just that I always wanted to be Supergirl. Our university is in a city that treats Halloween VERY seriously. So much so, that our annual concert runs this week Thursday, Saturday and Sunday -- off Friday night! On the last day before Halloween, we come to class in costume. Last year, I finally came as Supergirl. It's amazing to go across the floor in a cape! Jete, jete, wheeeee! Link to comment
Alexandra Posted October 29, 2003 Author Share Posted October 29, 2003 Ballet-related costumes only, please. This wasn't meant to be a thread about what we were really going to do on Hallowe'en. Hans, the Talking Porcupine has decided potential..... Link to comment
dirac Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 I always liked the Odette costume Streisand wore in "Funny Girl." I could make my entrance to the party announcing, "Whaddya gonna do, shoot the svans? Dese lovelies? My svansgirls?" Link to comment
carbro Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Hmmmmph! Mme. Hermine, you took my choice! :angry: ::stamping feet:: ::beating fists:: So if I Madge is taken, I'll be Carabosse. And since I'm Carabosse, I'll insist on a full retinue of rats. And skirts with lots of black silk to toss around menacingly. Link to comment
Alexandra Posted October 29, 2003 Author Share Posted October 29, 2003 Auditions for rats and svangirls Thursday, noon. (But Carbro, you could do Madge in a different make up! We want everyone to be happy.) Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Okay; I'm coming as Madge as Erik Bruhn. Carbro maybe you can be Madge as Sorella Englund? :grinning: Link to comment
Manhattnik Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 As always, I would be the drummer boy from Graduation Ball. Talk about the life of the party! Either that, or one of those Cuban guys from Canto Vital (as if!). Link to comment
Alexandra Posted October 29, 2003 Author Share Posted October 29, 2003 Think of the social possibilities -- the Canto Vital Guys meet the Svangirls!! Polka at 9 Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 OK, I'm coming as Thing. You know, the character in Napoli who helps Teresina with her onstage costume change? Link to comment
Alexandra Posted October 29, 2003 Author Share Posted October 29, 2003 Mel has just volunteered to spend the entire evening under the floorboards, peering up at women's skirts, looking for a string to yank, but that's okay. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Hey, who said anything about the rest of me? Thing, after all, is just a hand! Link to comment
carbro Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Mel has just volunteered to spend the entire evening under the floorboards, peering up at women's skirts, looking for a string to yank, but that's okay. Tough job, but . . . Alexandra, I am getting into the Carabosse mode! But, Mme. Hermine, if I do decide to be Madge, I think I'll be Shelley Washington's Madge. Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 But Mel, you could come as Quasimodo!!! A full service bell ringer! Link to comment
Hans Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Auditions for rats and svangirls Thursday, noon. I can't come then, but I'll make a poster and put it on the bulletin board here If anyone else wants a retinue, the Mouse King and Lilac Fairy are still available! Hans, the Talking Porcupine has decided potential..... Maybe, but does it count as a ballet costume? Link to comment
mbjerk Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 Both ugly stepsisters in Ashton's Cinderella - The tall one and later as the evening wears on the shorter one. Need cavaliers though.... Any takers? Link to comment
Victoria Leigh Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 I will be the "Burning Girl" from Herbert Ross' "Caprichios". The makeup is wonderful, very pale and gaunt, with deep, dark circles around the eyes. And, I like the white costume. B) Plus playing a martyr and getting to die is fun! Link to comment
leibling Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 I'll be the sleepwalker from La Sonambula... someone has to represent Balanchine !!!! :grinning: Link to comment
Dale Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 More Balanchine to the rescue...I'd like to come as the Mistress of Ceremonies from Cotillon and get to wear that divine dress with the bat wings. But at Midnight, I'd morph into the ballerina in "The Hand of Fate" - another with a fabulous gown. That party was not innocent, it could have been a Halloween soirée. Link to comment
Juliet Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 I come as Firebird, of course. My colours and I get to do the great makeup! That is for cocktails. For dinner, I get to change to the wonderful black and cream Karinska costume from La Valse. After dinner, for champagne and dancing, it's the Vienna Waltzes gown, of course. Certainly you don't expect me to confine myself to *one* change of clothes for an entire evening? Link to comment
Guest Helena Handbasket Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 I think I'll dress down this year. Perhaps Phlegmatic..... :party: Link to comment
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