The Chicken Opera: The Chickens
The Chicken Opera Rose, Birdetta, Farmyard Chicken Completed March 2012 Items made: Dresses, Bloomers. (I did not design these amazing makeups -- I wish I had -- but I included them anyway because they're th e final element that finish the look.) If you've been reading my blog, you'd know that I made several of the costumes for my college's original production, The Chicken Opera . I ended up making 5 chicken costumes, but since Rose (the lead) was dual cast, I had to make 2 costumes for each of the girls playing her. 1 Rose costume and 1 not Rose costume. Plus a costume for Birdetta. So... 5 costumes. Luckily, the design we came up with was the same for all of the girls, just different fabrics. Each one started with a giant pair of bloomers to which we sew ed lots of ru ffles on the bum to form a kind of mini-bus tle. Then I actually used a pattern I had in my library for the dresses. We...