Cry Baby: Allison Finale dress

Hello fellow Broadway Lovers,




So today, I'm going to be talking about another character from the Broadway Musical Cry Baby, Allison who is the lead female role. So to give you a quick run down of her character, Allison is a "square", a girl born into the high-class wealthy life during the 1960's which is when the Musical is set. Allison is basically the opposite of Lenora, who is slightly psychotic and has no objection to making a fool of herself, while Allison is poised and quiet and needs some coaching to fully bring her out of her shell.

So during the finale of Cry Baby at the opening of a new amusement park, Allison is performing a baton twirling set in accompaniment with a barber shop choir who had been asked to perform at the opening. For this scene and the finale, she is wearing a gorgeous bright blue dress, with red stars and ribbon attached.

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I couldn't find very many pictures of her wearing this dress, but I still think its pretty cool. So i'm gonna do my best to talk about it anyway.

So in the pictures above, in the 3rd one down you can really see how the top of the dress appears to be cut in almost an "M" shape, with the straps being attached just after the points (and on the point is where you would normally expect the straps to be attached). Anyway I'm not sure if you can see it very clearly but the skirt of the dress is actually pleated. I found another photo, its kinda blurry but it shows the pleats pretty well.

I can't get a good enough look at the dress to determine what fabric its made out of (possibly taffeta or satin due to the way the light hits it but I'm not certain). I'm not sure if you could see it very well but the petticoat which Allison wears with this dress is a light reddy/pink colour (kinda like the colour of the dress the women is wearing in the picture directly above this paragraph).

So with this dress she also wears a large red headband. I was also trying to get a decent look at what her shoes look like; They're definitely heels but in some pictures they appear to be blue with a red bow or ribboning of some sort (Like in the first picture up the top - where they appear to have a peep toe and an ankle strap) and in others they appear to be light blue or silver (also like in the pic directly above).

But anyway that's all from be for now.

Ciao

Becca M.

"I'm afraid that I'm not gonna fit in here. You know, with your friends, and stuff."

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.

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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!"