Lisa is amazing! I'd kill for her jaw line. Yes, she changes her eyebrows!
If you still have that 17th century style costume from 1986 go you!
Finally, you are not that short!
The guy? It is hard to tell with the pic. What I can tell is they hide a lot of indicators. Gloves on the hands. High collars. Theater makeup and eyebrow adaptation. There is makup on the noses. The red haired character had dark brown eyebrpws. The Dark haired has lighter, brown eyebrows that are extended in a way to do optimization. At first glance I'd say the guy is in the blue collared jacket based on face structure, but I am going to say the blue collar one is the gal due to the eyebrow makeup. =)
Honestly? Someday getting to sing Cherubino is a not-so-secret dream of mine (I know both the arias and it's a great role) and trouser roles in general are awesome fun and amazing when they're well done. I legit could not tell which was the man and which was the woman in that one pic, btw.
Thanks for your thoughts on this, it was an awesome read! And I'm glad you had a good time.
No, really, at one point I knew almost all of the big ones, and by "knew," I knew all the music for Cherubino, including the recitative, the Paggio in Poppaea, most of Octavian, Prince Charming in Massenet's Cendrillon . . . oh, yes, and some of the castrati roles, too, like Sextus in La Clemenza di Tito ("Parto, parto" is a bitch to sing and I'm sure I can't do it anymore) and "L'amero, saro constant" from Il Re Pastore. Like I said, kind of a specialty. (Up there, I'm playing Bastien.)
Both of those roles are played by women, but the blond/reddish haired one is the "woman." It's more blatantly obvious in the manga and the anime it's based on, Berubara. http://www.araya.i8.com/ It's big in Europe, too, but the artist decided that Americans would roon it, so you can only find unofficial dubs.
I have a picture of you as Day Lupin - it's not the clearest (I don't like using flash) but I'll try to remember to post it once I've sorted through my 1000ish pictures from the last fortnight.
Very interesting theatre history digression - and Lisa as Iago is amazing. I'm getting the sense, from this and fandom, that drag kinging is more prominent in the US than over here?
Every time I see a write-up of the revue, I wish I'd gone. I'd have much rather heard alabastard sing than read fanfic to 3 uninterested people at the far end of the hotel!
It may be more common in theatre, but in my experience not so much in life - male to female drag is pretty common, but the only women I've met who go out as men are pre-op transsexuals.
I'd not heard of Lisa's company before your post; I'd definitely like to see her if I'm ever in LA or she tours near me.
I think, though I'm not sure, that there are simply a lot of interesting male characters and we'd like not to be limited.I totally get that. The first character I tried to cosplay was Lucius, but I tend to think in terms of robes (as I envisaged when reading the books) rather than the movies' suit+cloak - and I didn't find long robes conducive to getting into a masculine mindset. After that experience someone pointed be towards some drag king websites, but I've not gone any further with it. Yet
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If you still have that 17th century style costume from 1986 go you!
Finally, you are not that short!
The guy? It is hard to tell with the pic. What I can tell is they hide a lot of indicators. Gloves on the hands. High collars. Theater makeup and eyebrow adaptation. There is makup on the noses. The red haired character had dark brown eyebrpws. The Dark haired has lighter, brown eyebrows that are extended in a way to do optimization. At first glance I'd say the guy is in the blue collared jacket based on face structure, but I am going to say the blue collar one is the gal due to the eyebrow makeup. =)
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Thanks for your thoughts on this, it was an awesome read! And I'm glad you had a good time.
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No, really, at one point I knew almost all of the big ones, and by "knew," I knew all the music for Cherubino, including the recitative, the Paggio in Poppaea, most of Octavian, Prince Charming in Massenet's Cendrillon . . . oh, yes, and some of the castrati roles, too, like Sextus in La Clemenza di Tito ("Parto, parto" is a bitch to sing and I'm sure I can't do it anymore) and "L'amero, saro constant" from Il Re Pastore. Like I said, kind of a specialty. (Up there, I'm playing Bastien.)
Both of those roles are played by women, but the blond/reddish haired one is the "woman." It's more blatantly obvious in the manga and the anime it's based on, Berubara. http://www.araya.i8.com/ It's big in Europe, too, but the artist decided that Americans would roon it, so you can only find unofficial dubs.
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Very interesting theatre history digression - and Lisa as Iago is amazing. I'm getting the sense, from this and fandom, that drag kinging is more prominent in the US than over here?
Every time I see a write-up of the revue, I wish I'd gone. I'd have much rather heard alabastard sing than read fanfic to 3 uninterested people at the far end of the hotel!
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I'd not heard of Lisa's company before your post; I'd definitely like to see her if I'm ever in LA or she tours near me.
I think, though I'm not sure, that there are simply a lot of interesting male characters and we'd like not to be limited.I totally get that. The first character I tried to cosplay was Lucius, but I tend to think in terms of robes (as I envisaged when reading the books) rather than the movies' suit+cloak - and I didn't find long robes conducive to getting into a masculine mindset. After that experience someone pointed be towards some drag king websites, but I've not gone any further with it. Yet ( ... )
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