Costuming

Costuming had their work cut out for them during Hairspray. When it comes to costuming, there are four main ways to acquire costumes. One can rent them, buy them, borrow them, or make them. And, in Colonia High School’s case, reuse them.

Colonia High School has a room dedicated to costumes. This room is where all costumes are stored until they are eventually reused. Members of Theater lovingly refer to this room as “Narnia.”

It is Costuming’s job to find costumes for all cast members, through whatever means necessary. This process has been extremely difficult for Hairspray. All the costumes needed to look like they were from the 60’s. This eliminated most of the costumes stored in “Narnia.”

 Quick Changes

On top of acquiring costumes, Costuming is also in charge of quick changes. Quick changes are when a character has a very minimal amount of time to change from one costume to another. Hairspray happens to be loaded with quick changes. If anything in any of these quick changes goe wrong, a costume malfunction is bound to happen. Quick changes are one of the most stressful parts of Costuming.

Head Costumer Michelle Remite-Berthet reported that quick changes are one of the trickiest parts of costuming. “Quick changes are rough because some of the cast members literally have only 30 seconds to completely change their outfits. Wigs are flying everywhere!”