Sooooooo you’ve seen a lot of sketches for the Cabaret set, and I’m now able to share some of the ideas for costumes. Jeff Cone is our resident costume designer, and because we work together so often (our first show was back in Atlanta in 1990, oy vey am I old), I don’t always ask him to draft renderings. But because with Cabaret you could literally go in about 5,000 different directions, I’ve asked him to show me the ideas in visual form.

So here is first shot at the palette:

We’re hoping to create the sense that the entire show happens inside the Kit Kat Club – and in Berlin in early 30’s you would have seen lots of skin. So the base for the ensemble will be various iterations of period underwear:

Here are ideas for Cliff

Sally Bowles in her nightclub numbers

Frau Schneider

With the nightclub numbers we’ve been going around and around. I’ll throw an idea to Joel (choreographer), who will chew on it for awhile. Jeff will sketch something. Then Joel will come up with something clear, and throw it at me, and then Jeff will sketch some more.