[Spatzthecat]

Hi

No leg or arm warmers though!

From the same actress and provider as before.

Starting bid £450!

Enjoy

[Akeyla]

oh wow, Cats costume sale flood
I stay to my word, I'll slap them with my desk with all my art materials if they DARE to sell a Munkustrap costume .... and tempt my savings

I dont want to be a spoilsport or harsh, Spatz, but why do you never post neither auction number nor link? If you know it you would basically have the link open in another window already. Of course google is my friend, but it still stays a big internetz out there and some of us may be just browsing through here on lunchbreak, it is quite nervegrinding to have posts like this.


Aky


EDIT: the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/West-End-Musical-CATS-VICTORIA-Costume_W0QQitemZ400075741299QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_Theatre_Opera_Ballet_Theatre_Programmes_Brochures_Flyers_CV?hash=item5d265f5873&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

[Spatzthecat]

Hi

I will put the item number next time, I normally type in cats costune and then select collectables to find them.

Yours Spatz

[Heavylove]

How come its so many london costumes out now, is the theather cleaning up theyre storeromes or? If I had the money it would definately be fun to have one of theese dresses but apart from the tail and maybe the wig I doubt its a costume Ill never be able to put on...

[Belle]

It's a few cast members who are, presumably, friends... times are tough, money's tight, and if you have a costume sitting in a cupboard that is worth hundreds of pounds, and you need to pay bills, then the costume goes!

[Heavylove]

Ive understand thats its more than one person thats like to collect interesting costumes from theyre favorite shows to and as I said, if I have the money it would definately be fun to have a costume or two...

But if you ask me, this kind of costumes (id guess its ends up with preatty many over a 20 year plus run thou) should end up in a public museum rather than in some ones wardrobe.

By the way is it the actor the the theathre who owns the costumes when the show is closed?

[operafantomet]

[Belle]

When the London show closed, there was 21 years' worth of accumulated costumes in the theatre! Each actor had, I believe, at least two of their character costumes, plus personal costumes of roles they frequently understudied. For example, Sarah Jane Honeywell was Etcetera and understudy Victoria, this costume was her own Victoria that she alone wore. Unitards and warmers are relatively cheap and consumable, and therefore replacable.

When the London show closed, they kept a set of the best quality costumes, that supplied the UK tour I think? Plus all the prop-costumes. That was certainly the plan. Then everything else was free for all! Take whatever you want! I presume the cast got first choice on keeping their own costumes, then crew took what was left, and the most worn out, least desirable pieces were thrown out.

London's Theatre Museum, now part of the Victoria and Albert museum, has some very old Cats pieces in their "dressing up box" of costumes and wigs! They had them out for West End Live, it was painful to see what might once have been a Cassandra wig, now totally unstyled and frayed, a moth-eaten short wig that may have been Electra... a Coricopat unitard wearing Skimble's waistcoat, and Skimble being used for kids to play in. I can only presume that years ago, when the theatre museum was just down the road from Cats, these pieces were of little value to the show which had many fresher copies, and they were given to the museum for their play set. But now with Cats gone, the pieces are so much more valuable!

[Heavylove]

I spent some time watching all the youtube vids of cats out there and many of the highschools productions tends to have preatty good costumes so I guess thoose unitards (I always calls that dress coverall) is preatty cheap and easy to make a set off. And I guess costumes (esp in Cats with all the lying on floor etc) tends to be weared out preatty fast so the number of aviable costumes should be... high...