Costumising the Phantom of the Opera

This is Costume Designer and Creator Extraordinaire, Steve, standing in what used to be the 'Good Room' or the 'Maryville Room', depending on your disposition. Steve agreed to be co-costume designer and creator for Metropolitan Players' production of Phantom of the Opera, so the room now looks much more like the backstage of a theatre than a room in a house. It's very lush! Creating the costumes for a show with about 50 performers - and with such lavish costumes - has been a herculean task and Steve has literally done little else in his spare time for the past few months. He is on holidays at the moment and his days and nights are spent either on the sewing machine or at his cutting table. He is incredibly focused and while it must be a tremendous feeling of satisfaction to hold a completed costume, the amount of hours involved in very tedious work, is unbelievable.
There's a bunch of us from up here heading down to see the show in September, so it will be fabulous to see these costumes sparkle and shimmer under the lights of the Civic Theatre stage.