31 Days of Costume - October 13, 2012 - Christine's Wishing Twisted Dress

This dress is featured in the Webber musical. Christine wears it during the twisted notes scene in Act II and also wears it during Wishing with a cloak and red scarf. This is also one of the dresses I'd like to eventually cosplay in. The pattern of the dress reminds me of a Victorian wallpaper, it's very beautiful and has some great detail.

31 Days of Costume - October 12, 2012 - Meg Giry's ballerina girl costume

This is a simple costume from the Lloyd Webber musical. It's a simple white bodice with a short A line skirt/tutu. This is the ordinary or every day costume for Meg Giry and also the costume for the rest of the ballet girls in the musical. I believe this costume was based on Degas' ballerinas, or at least I've heard and read his name in connection with these costumes.

31 Days of Costume - October 11, 2012 - The Manager's Masquerade costumes

 

Surprisingly my photo search didn't yield many photos for my blog use. I wanted to feature the manager's masquerade costumes. Generally the manager's costumes are just an ordinary reflection of the time period the story takes place in. The masquerade costumes stand out, especially the skeleton costume with glitter accents which is revealed after the manager's find each other on stage and breath a sigh of relief as the second act of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical beings. It's one of the funnier moments of the play, one I look forward to every time I go. 

31 Days of Costume - October 10, 2012 - Christine's Think of Me gown circa 2004 movie

Unfortunately the 2004 Phantom of the Opera has a few flaws, however I did enjoy some of the costumes from the movie. I love Christine's Think of Me gown from the movie. This gown would have also made a good wedding dress since it's predominately white with some gold accents. To me this gown says starts out subtle then wows you once your eyes travel to the bottom of the gown. If we want to get into potential symbolism here we could say it's representative of Christine's performance, since traditionally many Christine's I've seen tend to perform the song in a low nervous voice at the beginning, then become vocally stronger as the song continues finishing off with a tremendous vocal wow factor by the end of the song.

31 Days of Costume - October 9, 2012 - Hannibal Slave Girl Costume

This costume is from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, it's worn by the ballet girls during the Hannibal scene. Christine also wears this costume, her first appearance in the musical is actually in this costume. These costumes are ornate and IMO they are the costumes that make every male phantom phan drool.

31 Days of Costume - October 8, 2012 - Christine's title song/MOTN robe

This costume isn't as stunning or as ornately detailed as Christine's other costumes in the musical. It's still pretty, it's plain with ruffly lace on the bottom of the dressing robe/gown and on the sleeves. She also wears it during the title song and MOTN, which IMO are the two best scenes in the musical.

SPECIAL CHARITY DONATION CONTEST

As some of you might know yesterday I started to campaign for an organization called RAINN! I'm hoping to raise $3,000 in a year's time.

To inspire fellow phans to donate I've created a donation contest. The Phan that donates the most money to this cause will get a prize! Here's what you will need to do to enter the contest.

1) Visit my donation page

http://rainnmakers.rainn.org/phantomrainn

2) Submit a donation by October 27, 2012 

*Please put Phan after your name so I can recognize that you are a phan entering the contest.

3) If you have donated the most money you will receive a Lon Chaney glow in the dark necklace, hopefully before Halloween! I'm going to send the necklace to the winner on Monday October 29, 2012.

Please donate - I'm trying to work very hard this cause is important to me! Also pass the word on to non phans. Every time I notice a donation I also make a status update on the campaign page thanking the donor publicly! 

The highest donor will receive this prize!