As a spin-off of eatlasagna's thread about the best wigs in a production, how about the ugliest and tackiest mops that they call wigs you've ever seen?
I'll start.
SJB in Cats at the Muny.
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
I am not a fan of Kristin Chenoweth's wig in Promises, Promises. The wig on the advertisements, posters, etc with the side-part flip looks much better with the structure of her face.
This isn't Broadway, but the Signature Theatre's Les Mis was a great show, but half the wigs looked like they pulled them off of troll dolls. Poor Marius' hair looked like a wet Tarzan.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
I didn't see the show on Broadway, so I don't know how it compares, but the recent Grease tour with Taylor Hicks. Awful show, awful wigs. Updated On: 7/29/10 at 11:34 AM
Not Broadway, but the Walnut Street Theatre's "Les Miserables"...Hugh Panaro's first convict wig was horrific.
They refitted him and modified them to be a TINY bit better. His initial Valjean/Monsieur Madeleine wig was too long and rather ugly, too...the redesign was O.K., too.
On Broadway...HATED Drew Sarish's Armand wig in "Lestat." I preferred the first, shorter SF preview wig for Armand, but hated Hugh's SF wig. Too long, pale, and straight. Didn't care for Gabrielle's post-bite wigs in either production.
That's because it wasn't a wig. I was reading something (can't remember if it was his book or an interview) where Arthur Laurents said that there was a wig made that turned out to be terrible, so Patti didn't wear a wig.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Natalie Toro's Madame DeFarge wig and James Barbour's Sydney Carton wigs were terrible in A Tale of Two Cities. It could have been Barbour's real hair, but I hope not!
Edit- WHo could forget that HORRIBLE Emma wig in Jekyll & HYDE, or the wig that the Jekyll/Hydes wore when it wasn't their usual hair. Ouch! Lauren Kennedy's wig in Waiting for the Moon world premiere looked funny to me.
Updated On: 7/29/10 at 04:49 PM