Violet: Went to GoodWill and found a 2 similar violet pant suits-one for her and one for her mom. Violet's jacket zipper's down so at intermission she'll put the inflatable sumo suit on with the bulk tucked into her jacket. During the break in her song she'll run offstage, unzip her jacket and turn on the inflatable. She's only inflating from her waist up and leaving the jacket on. There's enough force to push her jacket open and she'll raise her arms as she gets bigger. With a violet light slowly getting stronger, the suit getting bigger, her arms raising, I think the effect will be good. When she "pops" we're also going to hit the audience with a quick flash of light, and we have 2 handheld confetti shooters we're going to shoot out into the audience. I'm hoping the effects playout as well during the show as they do in my head!

 

Augustus: We cast one of the skinniest kids in this role b/c we thought it not only would be hysterical to see her walk out, but we didn't want to "type cast" an overweight pre-teen. That being said, while at GoodWill I bought the biggest pair of mens pants I could find (houndstooth print to boot!). I got a small hula hoop and hot glued the pant waist around the hoop...added felt 'liederhosen' suspenders and viola! I found a houndstooth dress for Mrs Gloop to coordinate. I found Alpine style hats with feathers for both of them online. I also got a hat with a propeller on it  for when Phineous interviews them at home.

 

Fizzy Lifting Room: With the bubbles & lighting I originally thought we'd set them up on a slight teetering mechanism, however the other day at rehearsal one of the siblings in the cast was rolling around on heeley's so we're going to have Charlie & Grandpa rolling around the stage for that.

 

If anyone has any pictures of scenes/costumes then can send me, that would be great! alleah13@hotmail.com

 

 

It's almost impossible for Violet to get changed during the song, so during intermission is when she'll put the sumo suit on under her costume. She's wearing a Violet pant suit and the jacket to the suit zips up. During the break in the song she's running offstage and unzipping her jacket (but leaving it on) and turning on the sumo inflater. She'll go back out and as the suit inflates, it pushes the jacket open, and Violet slowly raises her arms to add to the inflating. The pant waist keeps the bottom half from inflating so she's just blowing up from the waist up. We've combined that with the blue lighting and the effect is really good. I also purchased handheld confetti shooters that are stuffed with purple & blue confetti so that when she "pops" the audience gets sprayed with confetti (we'll restuff for the end with metallic gold confetti ala golden tickets raining down) I think we might actually use a flash of stobe lighting for the pop too. We've got tech rehearsal tonight and full dress tomorrow.