My theater company was showing a production of Newsies and needed several time-appropriate phones. We found one in the thrift stores, but we needed several so the Props Committee asked me to 3D print a few. To begin I found an .stl design on Thingiverse. Click here for the files…
Our Newsies Sets team asked us to create the Jacobi’s Delicatessen sign. I searched around on the good ‘ole internet to see what I liked, chatted with our director, then dove in. We started off in the garage, and propped the two 4’x8′ luan panels on white folding tables so…
When Medda Larkin wears a dressing gown, it must be as lavishly over-the-top as she is! In our costume stock, I found a sequin dance dress to be the base layer of this costume, and ordered a feather lingerie robe from Amazon. But… our Medda needed more. 😉 To enhance…
Even the most famous people have stay-home-and-work days, and Newsies! Medda Larkin is no exception. Director Bobby Tschoepe and I decided Medda’s work that day was at her desk, paying bills and working on paperwork, and that she still dressed for success, knowing her important customers could drop by. I…
The first time we meet Medda Larkin, is Act 1, Scene 5 at Medda’s Bowery in New York. The scene is full of colorful characters and Medda’s vaudeville outfit needs to shine brightly. We made her look by sewing a skirt based on Butterick B5969 and embellishing an Amazon corset…
Our theater asked us to create costumes for Newsies’ Medda Larkin, a 19th Century Vaudeville actress who worked in New York and also provided haven to the “newsies” or news boys who had no place to stay. (1) Medda is a dynamic, high-spirited character and needed to bring a jolt…