Broadway Violet Blueberry Costume Confirmed Pic

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Tue, 03/28/2017 - 19:15

Anonymous

I found this in Instagram. Drumroll...

https://instagram.com/p/BSNFy8RjWB2/

Yeahhhhhh. For a multi-million dollar budget I'm honestly aghast that this is what they came up with. I've seen high school productions with a better blueberry ball costume than this.

Im not a designer though so I can't be too critical but the London show with a smaller budget came up with a way more impressive set piece than this. Bigger by about double and that's with the fact that the Violet's in that production were played by girls/teens so they were on average a foot shorter making the end result more dramatic.

i was really hoping getting Broadway designers to do this could give us new ideas for a better blueberry ball but it looks like the niche designers in our community have a better grasp at this than Warner Bros. themselves. I can't say I'm surprised. We do have different motivations.

Thoughts?

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 19:29

BttrfliesNHurricanes (not verified)

Also the costume is confirmed to be a whopping 144" in circumference. Alittle under four feet in diameter...

Given the fact that Broadway set pieces are usually blown out of proportion so audiences in the cheap seats can see them this all but confirms that Violet shrinks in this adaptation. That's something new though not unheard of. Concept art for Burton's film shows Violet shrinking down to as small as 3.5 feet but even that still showed her ballooning up to 10 feet round in the end.

To make things weirder the costume designer confirms that our adult Violet explodes just like in the original production. Congratulations poppers. So Violet blows up, shrinks down closer to a blueberrie's size, and still explodes. Strange.

The show just did its first preview tonight so things can still change but overall things got weirder in the WB canon Violet mythos.

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 23:39

Margeret Moonlught

Alright first, That looks less Willy Wonka and more Yellow Submarine. Color it blue and you've got something the Blue Meanie could wear.

And second, I feel like judging a broadway set piece on fetish appeal is like judging Dragonball Z on how much chocolate is consumed in the Buu saga. You can do it, But you really shouldn't and it doesn't really make too much sense. To me, Anyway.

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Thu, 03/30/2017 - 23:19

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SirFrancisThe3rd

That's this fetish in a nutshell.

Well, it's been fun

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 23:54

sterlingchapel

I agree that the costume looks very amateur considering that it is a broadway production but to its credit I don't believe the London show had Violet being rolled. So if what I read from the comments were correct we might get to see Violet actually rolling across the stage. I wouldn't mind seeing that if it's excecuted well.

Wed, 03/29/2017 - 05:23

BttrfliesNHurricanes (not verified)

Lol Blue Meanie. I wanted to come off not judging it that way because if you are familiar with the London show you would see how much of a downgrade it is. They apparently stripped out Juicy and didn't give Violet an exit song as of now. Basically on all fronts Violet's scene beyond bare bones territory. Maybe they haven't finished up everything involving it before first previews?

it just boggles mind that they did this and cheapening of all the set pieces is a complaint for the show in total at the moment. This is unfortunately a symptom not an exception. Maybe I also just feel pissed because besides our obvious interests in Violet I really like this property and live by NYC so I wanted this to go really well.

as far as rolling I didn't get that from the comments. I took her yep as more of confirmation that that was her final blueberry costume and that she ignored answering whether it rolls or not. Given what I've said before about the show I seriously doubt they put that much thought into the costume.

It's just a bad costume period fetish or not.

Wed, 03/29/2017 - 08:02

BttrfliesNHurricanes (not verified)

It rolls! It's been confirmed that Violet does roll in that costume. I wonder how they achieve that. Apparently her first ostume inflates like in London. She goes offstage and is in an even bigger inflatable costume then goes offstage one last time in that costume we see then rolls offstage and explodes with her remains appearing onstage.

Dark. Sounds interesting it's such a small costume though I wonder how they pulled it off. So a simple rolling costume is possible. Question is could one be made believable for a video minus being the monstrosity of the 71 costume.

Wed, 03/29/2017 - 08:43

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Margeret Moonlught

Y'know it might be a bad costume, But fuck I want a turn in it.

Katamari Damacy motherfuckers.

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Wed, 03/29/2017 - 08:52

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firnov

She is gona explode? Nice!

And boom goes the inflatee

Wed, 03/29/2017 - 16:18

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sterlingchapel

I just want to see a live clip already!

Broadway Violet Blueberry Costume Confirmed Pic

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