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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World
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We're on the set of a Christmas story live where Tony Award winner William Ivy Long is showing us his many costume sketches for the big night on December 17th
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Here we are at the moment. I've created 20 of these big, what are they, four, bonds
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eight. They're not mood boards, they're actually research boards. We went back to the
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Jean Shepherd story, the original story, not the movie, not the Broadway, which we are part
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movie, part Broadway, part, we're a hybrid, you know, we're this live television. Everything
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I showed him, we just said, well, it's really Norman Rockwell. It's really Norman Rockwell
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So if you look at these wonderful Norman Rockwell pictures of Christmas, Norman Rockwell
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sort of summarized and celebrated and brought, made into iconic images that on the covers of the
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Saturday Evening Post, Americana. Since he was from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, you know
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there's a specific type of New England Americana, Americana, and a lot of snow. Well, that segues
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perfectly into this town And you see these Pendleton jackets Well Scott Ellis our director thought that that would be a perfect way to connect our narrator telling his story
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And our narrator is Matthew Broderick. When we first meet him, he's wearing something that is from today
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Like you could go out and actually buy that Pendleton and wear today. But yet, they're still making them since the 40s
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I've also taken my Pantone books in order for us to sort of
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solidify our color scheme and I can then share it with the set designer and the lighting designers
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Listen to me, I'm talking like a Broadway show here. Well, why not? So you see these things. I've taken these
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pantones and matched them in to show you how that and that looks like that and this is like that
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so that we can keep the color scheme succinct and very tight. For instance, there's no fluorescent colors
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there's no day glow colors and there's really no bright colors. This is what pretty much is wearing
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pretty much because they start out in modern-day clothes and then they segue and they're our
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choir our boy choir singing throughout the entire evening so I'm pretty darn pleased with how
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we've been able to match like vintage trousers with available fair aisle sweaters and and all these
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just sort of create this look
