Playing Dress-Up: Costume Shows

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LUCY SILVAY, a delight to hang costumes on, (A) in TOM EYEN’s Court at La Mama, (B) as Wonder Woman for Halloween, (C) As Cleopatra in Vermont, (D) as something terribly symbolic in PAUL FOSTER’s Tom Paine Off-Broadway, and (E) in a Betsey Johnson original in my The Sleeping Bag at Tony Bastiano’s Playwrights Workshop, wth IRVING METZMAN.

BILL MITCHELL as Pierrot in “Aria da Capo,” Cino, 1960.

CHARLES STANLEY in PETER HARTMAN’s Vistas of the Heart Revealed, 1966.

JUDITH GAYLE HARRIS as The Wicked Queen faces CHARLES STANLEY as The Magic Mirror in Charles’ production of the comic book of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Charles wears a headdress made by Maria Irene Fornes for the Judson Church production of H.M. KOUTOUKAS’ Pomegrenada. 1967. Judith Gayle, a reviewer for the paper “Show Business,” often gave us her cast-off gowns to use as costumes.

MAGIE DOMINIC, TED HARRIS, Unidentified, BOB SHIELDS, EDDIE LEAVITT in Snow White, Cino, 1967.

SHIRLEY STOLER, Camino Real, 1961, photo, Ben Martin.

Unidentified Actress, Camino Real, photo Ben Martin

TANYA BEREZIN, Schiller’s Mary Stuart, Circle Rep, 1979, dir. MARSHALL W. MASON, from Marshalls’s BOOK.

LINDA ESKENAS and ANTHONY SCIABONA in Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” Theatre Genesis, directed by WARREN FINNERTY. Photo by JAMES D. GOSSAGE (who says this is actually H.M. KOUTOUKAS’ “Medea” at the same theatre, same director)

JACQUE LYNN COLTON, ONDINE; SOREN AGENOUX’s Chas. Dicken’s Christmas Carol, Caffe Cino. Billy Name/OvoWorks, Inc.

Unidentified and CLARIS NELSON in Medea at a university.

Let’s have an order of puffed sleeves for everyone, shall we? PAUL FOSTER in my Play-by-Play, La Mama, 1972.

DONALD L. BROOKS, As You Like It, Stella Adler Theatre Studio, 1962.

BOBBY KUBERA in my “Play-by-Play,” La Mama, 1972.

Double order of puffed sleeves: SOREN AGENOUX and ARNOLD HORTON in CLARIS NELSON’s The Clown, the Cino, 1967.

CHARLES STANLEY could make a costume out of any piece of fabric, as here in his own “The Sun King” at Theatre Genesis. This and next photo by JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

And finally…a costume not worn nearly as often Off-Off as people think: lovely LUCY SILVAY again, this time in only her own beautiful young nudity, in JOHN P. DODD’s “City of Light,” La Mama, 1973.

Then: DORIC WILSON in “Tartuffe” in college.

Now: RICHARD SMITHIES as “Richard II” in New York.

Gary Swarz offers two costume shots from the WPA Theatre in the Bowery, 1970′s. Above, an unidentified cleric watches lace-collared Gary menace Francine Middleton in JOSEF BUSH’s Inquisition epic, “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,” photo by CONRAD WARD.

Gary (center) as Christ among his disciples in WPA star playwright Joe Renard’s spectacular “The Word of God,” sumptuously directed by Hugh Gittens.

LUCY SILVAY, a delight to hang costumes on, (A) in TOM EYEN’s Court at La Mama, (B) as Wonder Woman for Halloween, (C) As Cleopatra in Vermont, (D) as something terribly symbolic in PAUL FOSTER’s Tom Paine Off-Broadway, and (E) in a Betsey Johnson original in my The Sleeping Bag at Tony Bastiano’s Playwrights Workshop, wth IRVING METZMAN.