Cry Baby: Lenora - Screw Loose Dress

Hello Fellow Broadway Lovers,


So today, I'm going to talk about a completely different character from a completely different Broadway Musical. Lenora from Cry Baby, the crazy, stalker girl. If you haven't seen Cry Baby, as it unfortunately didn't run for long on Broadway, just search on you-tube Screw Loose to get the gist of this Character.

So a quick run down of Lenora; she was played by Alli Mauzey, who later went on to play G(a)linda in Wicked. She is madly in love with the male lead of the musical, emphasis on MADLY.
Anyway, During this song Lenora is wearing this hideous purple dress  (I think it's either made out of taffeta or satin, either way it is still kinda ugly), that is in the typical 60's style. But to emphasize her "crazy" nature, she has tucked the top of the bodice of the dress into the bottom of her bra.

Pics:

In this picture you can see how she's tucked the top of the bodice into the bottom of her bra.

You can also kinda see the edge of the collar she is wearing with the dress.

You can see in this picture that she has a large black belt around the waist of the dress.

Okay, so this last picture isn't actually of the Screw Loose dress but this is how I imagine the top of the actual bodice looks like. As of course we can't see cause its been tucked into the bottom of her bra.

So, when Lenora wears this dress She wear long Black gloves that come up past her elbows. She also wears a black wig like the one pictured above, although she does wear this the most of the show, except for in the finale when she wears a wedding dress. When she sings this song, she also wears this leopard print collar thing that is separate from the dress, I couldn't find a decent picture that shows it, but you can kinda see it in the pictures above. The pink dress is another one of her costumes, which she wears later in the show.

Anyway that's all from me for now

Ciao,

Becca M.

"Bonkers! That's what they're calling me! Not, metaphorically... They mean truly INSANE!"