#chorus costume

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Alberto Fabio (Fabius) Lorenzi, Cover Le Sourire, Mi Careme, Carnival Pierrot Costume, Disguise Chorus Girl, March 1926.

[dynamoe]

still dicking around with my Triple Threat design

Bruce Timm-ish/Batman: The Animated Series-style character rendering. Some Tuxedo Mask inspiration snuck in with all the roses... maybe she throws them to initiate battling evil doers?

I actually really don't like superhero shit (tough considering the direction VBros took in later seasons), but even with my distaste I wanted to do justice to the references.

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🌹 Triple Threat in the 1980s

🌹 Rose Whalen (old)

🌹 Billy's prom date

Triple Threat's costume is meant to represent a Broadway chorine, but also it's a bit like a majorette... antiquated military uniform but pantsless. Very gendered. The old-fashioned/family friendly version of sexy... but not TOO sexy.

Visual reference to both the pants-less white tie tails of Zatanna the magician of DC Comics and the stage costumes from the "burlesque" Broadway musical revue Sugar Babies

The revue starred Mickey Rooney in his Broadway debut, Ann Miller... The revue subsequently had a short-lived National tour which starred Carol Channing and Robert Morse, from August through November 1980. (Carol Channing is the model for Rose's speaking voice, obvs.)

Billy's mom as a character sucks— she's introduced as [out-of-touch old person] who becomes [smothering mother] archetype— but in just a few appearances implies potential depths not explored. She's the only canon character I've written aside from Billy & White, in a series of flashbacks to Billy's childhood with her in Boy Genius (← read it on AO3)

Based on the hair, this flashback is mid-1960s. Maybe a bit later. OG Team Venture have been painted as Jonny Quest, Doc Savage and the Fabulous Five and James Bond, but this scene has a real TV Batman '66 feel to it. Best arena for a campy Broadway-musical-themed crime-fighter.

Triple Threat would be interesting to explore in the trajectory of comic book superheroes going from Golden Age goofy to the '80s X-treme en-darkening/en-seriousning (imagine Triple Threat reimagined as a Punisher type). At the same time, her Pollyanna American Exceptionalism/Moral Purity message (that Action Man wants to soil with his filth) would get dragged through the mud as she makes "hard choices" aka being a hypocrite in service of her all-American values.

She buys into moral panics. She warns against rock and roll and drugs, despite being a Baby Boomer. She is defiantly "a square" (as well as gullible to propaganda).

Female Conservatives are fascinating as they are gross. The Anti-Feminist Feminist. She's never shown to be motivated by religious fundamentalism (she seems fine with the possibility of her son being gay), it's more insidious than that. Is she machiavellian like a super-powered Phyllis Schlafly or, like the moral panic stuff, she's really gullible to conservative messaging? I see her more as a Kissinger Neo-Con than a MAGA conspiracy rube. She's not angry or hateful in her conservativeness, just reactionary and myopic.

Another ill-defined aspect... does Triple Threat have superpowers? She can still do flying leap kicks at age 60ish which suggests she's more than just "really good at fighting." What if she had been part of some Captain America super-serum ultimate-soldier program that screws her up medically, later causing Billy's genetic birth defects? Is she filled with guilt? Angry at the government for not telling her about the side effects?

→ → More on Rose Whalen's history

all my Billy & White stuff at → FAILURES of SCIENCE index

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One singular sensation!

Costumes from A Chorus Line

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#OldiesWeek - November 10th - Jennyanydots

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i mentioned this in the tags of another post somewhere but there rly is something so theatre kid core insane in rehearsing les mis and learning how to build a barricade and playing the role of a student in the rebellion at the same time as an awful winter is descending on you and you have no real way of knowing how much money you're going to have left and the coronation of king charles, which will most likely be millions of pounds worth of money spent on watching another racist idiot put a hat on, seems to be a more important use of the government's expenses than feeding and heating the homes of the rest of the country. like idk i really would love to hear the people fucking sing. or something.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Asia Kate Dillon in costume as Lucifer backstage at a performance of The Mysteries

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I CAN'T BELIEVE HE MADE A VIDEO FOR TRAGEDY TOO WE ARE SO BLESSED

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The Hanged Man by TULIP

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halloween art (falls over)

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Chiming back in to say: nobody on TV looks that good in real life! Like yes obviously a lot of actors are still very good looking people, but when you see them on camera, they’re made to usually look their absolute best. It goes so beyond getting their hair and make-up done professionally. The girls usually have extensions and fake eyelashes and people are lit a certain way and everyone gets their clothes tailored to them perfectly. All this to say, don’t ever feel bad that you don’t look like the people on TV cause they don’t look like that either lol

Hell yeah!!!! It’s easy to look that good when you have a team of professionals whose entire job is to make you look good.

When I see social media posts or other things like “wowowowow these people haven’t aged at ALL” I remember (and it took me a while to learn and accept) that rich people and celebs have deep resources and doctors and procedures and skin creams and skin care that the general public does not.

Everybody’s journey to body acceptance / body neutrality won’t be the same but I have grown a lot more comfortable with myself over the past couple years re: wearing what makes me feel good and giving progressively less fucks about how other people feel about it. Which often means no makeup whatsoever. As one of my best friends has been saying about such things for the past year as we’ve begun to emerge: What did we survive for? What did we endure for? To wear underwire bras and a full face of makeup everyday? I think not!

[mcbitchtits]

so i was in fact just rewatching little shop (favorite musical. eclipse prep. as one does) and i know menken/ashman talk about it being a faustian bargain between seymour and twoey, but in rewatching the movie i never really noticed before that patrick martin (jim belushi's character) is dressed in a red suit jacket. i wonder if that's... purposeful. or just coincidence?

[quinnmorgendorffer]

I regret to inform you, in the year of our lord 2023, that the Glee cover of “Bad Romance” still fucking kills

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Cassie Costume from A Chorus Line

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Original Broadway and Co. is the reason I'm so P/Oed about what they did with Asparagus' ("Peter's") chorus costume in the revival.