Last weekend (6-8 September) saw us in Newcastle, bringing down a bunch of friends, to join up with other friends and family to see Metropolitan Players' production of Phantom of the Opera. As you will remember, Steve was co-costume designer and creator, with Bev Fewins. The seven of us, six from Northern Rivers and Vaughan from Sydney, arrived Friday afternoon and stayed in a lovely terrace house in Parnell Place, Newcastle East. We had a beaut breakfast at Scotties, in Scott Street, on Saturday morning. From left, Dale, Vaughan, me, Glen, Steve, Julie and John. Steve went off to see the matinee performance, after we'd had a nice walk out along Nobby's breakwall (seeing a cute Australian fur seal), while I enjoyed an afternoon of second hand bookshopping, before we all assembled at Le Dynasty - all 25 of us - for our pre-show dinner. Which was delish!
And these are a few photos so you can get an idea of how scrumptiously fabulous the costumes were. The Phanton taking Christine across the subterranean lake, deep below the Paris Opera.
Carlotta and Christine in one of the operas.
Masquerade....lots of costumes in that scene!
Carlotta not happy.
Masquerade again
Final bows for the cast at the end of a stunning performance and season!
And take a bow, Bev and Steve! Fabulous work!
5 comments:
We're finally breaking lurker status here lol, but we really wanted to say what a great job Steve did. Your photos look stunning. (And I'm a costume and textile curator, so I know good work when I see it :) )
Jeni and Robin
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Hi Jeni and Robin,
thanks so much for your message! Steve is very chuffed that you like his work (and that of his co-designer/maker, Bev).
I'm also chuffed you lurk in my blog!
So where abouts are you?
We're near Blue Knob Hall Gallery / Blue Knob Farmers Market, just off the road from Uki to Kyogle. It's a 43 minute commute to SCU for Robin. We "tree changed" about the same time you guys did.
Jeni and Robin
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Excellent. I've just 'liked' your fb page....lovely bobuck! We have them around our place but have only found one actually on our place, but unfortunately it died very mangey.
What does Robin do at SCU?
Yes I remember that post. Poor thing. We've not seen mange on the possums here, thank heavens.
When we left Canberra Robin was still finishing his PhD via the IT dept at ANU. Up here he wanted a 9 to 5 job that would allow him time to finish the PhD so joined the IT tech side of things at SCU. This plan worked well and he graduated from ANU last year :)
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