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Cristine "Sans H"
Location:
Ft. Carson, Colorado
Birth date:
November 2, 1978
Occupation:
Accountant/ Graduate Student
Homepage URL:
Bio on I.P. cast website (where there are more pictures).
E-mail address:
PKTaxWench911@aol.com
(remove the 911 - I add that to confuse those programs that crawl the net looking for email addresses.)
Cast name and web address:
Midnight depravity in Colorado Springs, CO
Previous cast(s):
Interchangeable Parts in St. Pete Beach, FL (2002, 2003)
Larger Than Life annual Tampa cast (2002, 2003)
Date I started performing in Rocky Horror:
June 8, 2002
Why I love this part:
Magenta Rocks. :) And, well, she wears the most clothing of all the women...
What made me want to perform in this show?
I'm not too sure. I'm a total prude, and wear granny underwear on stage even now, so it can't be an innate desire to run around in underwear. I think I really love Rocky because it is zany. Because fun people attend. Because I love being involved in theatre, don't want to have the massive suckage of free time that community theatre takes from one's life, and professional theatre pays dirt and I make much better money as an accountant. Rocky is a place where “grown-ups” with Peter Pan complexes can play!
Advice I'd give to someone just starting out:
1. Watch the movie and know every intimate detail. You not only need to know your part backwards and forwards, but also you need to know the parts of the characters you interact with. To be seen as a professional, yet fun, learn the part obsessively, including camera angle changes. Feel free to interpret the parts when the camera isn't on you, but be able to switch immediately back to your character.
2. Get your costume together. All of it. Walking in with a complete costume will impress people to no end. Magenta is the cheapest of costumes to make! My costume hints, not found on the Anal Retentive list, are as follows.
3. Maids' Dress – Use Simplicity 7162 for the body of the dress. Make the collar slightly larger. I learned the hard way that use of interfacing is not optional. It will keep the front of your dress from gaping if the fabric lies flat. Expand the front of the dress 1.5 inches in order to make the three pleats on either side of the buttons. The pleats are very small. Sew the pleats after you cut out the pieces, before you assemble the dress. After the pleats are in, the front parts of the dress need to match up to the pattern for accurate pattern fit. You can use the sleeves that come with the pattern, but I prefer the longer sleeves of Simplicity 9456. Once again, no matter which pattern you use, add in 1.5 inches for the three pleats on each sleeve. Try not to use all-cotton fabrics.. colors fade, and white collars won't stay white. Sure, you will sweat a little in a high-content polyester blend, but you won't be remaking your costume every few months. Ironing it makes it look awesome, as a wrinkled maid looks silly. I found a black on the Wal-mart dollar table of mystery content, but it hasn't faded a bit. My canvas white collar, however, is now a shade of gray. Part of that may be due to Darth Maul makeup, however....
4. Aprons like falling off of shoulders. Use a bit of Velcro on the shoulders of the dress and apron to hold it on. Black on the dress, white on the apron. Use the fuzzy side of the velvet on the dress, or you will be forever snagging your wig on it. Sew on the Velcro.
5. For the sheer dresses, make sure you do French seams. Use snaps to hold dresses closed. For seams where snaps are being attached, also sew on Hem Tape or Bias Tape, because the sheer seams alone will NOT hold onto the snaps. Once you tear sheer fabric, there is no mending; you will have to start over. You will find that you practically have to rip off the “Toucha Touch me” dress to get into dinner scene dress, so snaps work great. Attach the cream marabou boa with small/medium-sized safety pins. Sewing it on, even with thread loops, is a pain and will make you not want to wash your costume. Costumes NEED washing, no matter what you think, and Febreeze will fade delicate sheers. Safety pins are much easer to reattach your boa.
6. I can't recall the wig I use, but it was a relatively tight corkscrew curl wig. Brush it out carefully using lots of water. Use a wide toothed comb, not a normal hair brush. Weekly brushings will keep it looking naturally frizzy and it will be mistaken for natural hair. Don't get a cheap Halloween wig. Go to a wig shop, such as one that specializes in cancer patients, and spend the $45-60 for a good quality wig. I've been using mine three years now, every other week, and it is looking as good as when I bought it. Better actually; because the more you brush it, the more the frizz is under control.
7. Wash your costume as often as you can. People get really ripe on stage, and don't realize it. Make Columbia's want to hug you, and wash your costume. :-D
Other:
Go check out the Interchangeable Parts webpage!
Save FarScape! go to http://farscape.wdsection.com to see how you can help!
Date added to this site:
October 24, 2005
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