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Costume Design and Production for Legally Blonde the Musical book by Heather Hach, Music and Lyrics by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe

Nogar, Julianne K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555364601372494

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2019, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Theatre.
This thesis will document the costume design process for The Ohio State University Department of Theatre’s production of Legally Blonde the Musical. This production ran from November 8th, 2018 through the November 18th, 2018 in the Thurber Theatre, under the direction of Associate Professor Mandy Fox. The production team consisted of the following people: third year graduate student Cassie Lentz as scenic designer, third year graduate student Kelsey Gallagher as lighting designer, and undergraduate student Emily Schmidt as sound designer. Based upon the 2001 hit romantic comedy film Legally Blonde and the book of the same name written by Amanda Brown, Legally Blonde the Musical takes the iconic character Elle Woods and places her and her friends in a singing, dancing, over the top spectacle. Together as a cohort, the production team worked to preserve the charm of the movie, but give it a fresh, feminist, facelift for 2018. The production team and I researched designer fashions, trends, and architecture from the early 2000s and pushed those styles into a heightened reality. The goal of this production was not to change the iconography of Legally Blonde, but to embrace and amplify it. With a budget of five thousand eight hundred dollars, it was my challenge to wardrobe a cast of thirty-two performers, each of whom played one to six characters. As the musical progresses, there are many distinct locations that require complete costume changes. This allows approximately thirty-two dollars per costume with an average of five looks per actor. This thesis will explore the creative solutions employed to design a beautiful show with hundreds of costume pieces under the constraints of a limited budget, as well as limited time and labor constraints.
Jeanine Thompson , Professor (Committee Chair)
Amanda Fox, Associate Professor (Committee Member)
Oliszewski Alex, Associate Professor (Committee Member)
155 p.
Theater; Theater Studies
Costume design, theatre, musical

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  • Nogar, J. K. (2019). Costume Design and Production for Legally Blonde the Musical book by Heather Hach, Music and Lyrics by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555364601372494

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nogar, Julianne. Costume Design and Production for Legally Blonde the Musical book by Heather Hach, Music and Lyrics by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe . 2019. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555364601372494.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nogar, Julianne. "Costume Design and Production for Legally Blonde the Musical book by Heather Hach, Music and Lyrics by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555364601372494

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