Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, who initially introduced Glinda and Elphaba to life within the 2003 Broadway manufacturing of the Depraved musical, returned to the witches’ world with shock cameos. They had been a part of the Wizomania when Erivo’s and Grande’s Elphaba and Glinda arrived within the land of Oz. Sticking to the movie’s magical and eccentric theme, they donned equally whimsical outfits.
Chatting with Folks journal, costume designer Paul Tazewell revealed his intention behind these clothes. “The query was, how do you make one thing theatrical? How do I design one thing that is going to be theatrical throughout the context of a fantasy world?” he mentioned.
Product designer Nathan Crowley needed the movie to seem like a pop-up guide come to life, which gave Tazewell the thought to dive again into the context of those characters. “They’re the goddesses of the Wizomania story and presenting the historical past of how Ouncescame to be,” he informed the outlet.
The Oscar-winning costume designer, who’s additionally been a part of Broadway productions like Hamilton and Dying Turns into Her, shared his imaginative and prescient of making these robes utilizing a Christmas tree made from folded pages as an inspiration. He envisioned the costumes to be one thing from the nineteenth century that was mild, ethereal and had a whimsical vibe.
Tazewell needed to place a distinction to Menzel and Chenoweth’s characters in comparison with their roles within the OG Depraved manufacturing. “We all know Idina as Elphaba, however I needed her to be the ‘mild’ one and for Kristin to be the ‘darkish’ one,” he mentioned. So, by placing the previous in a light-weight pink apparel and the latter in a vibrant purple, he flipped their shade schemes.
“They’re each nonetheless fairly vibrant chromatically and sparkly, however I attempted to offer them opposites. And it was a mad sprint to get every thing as a result of all of it got here collectively unexpectedly in a short time,” he added.
He additionally recalled that the workforce needed to put these outfits collectively in a brief interval, however after loads of flying forwards and backwards between London and New York, they pulled it off. “And it was actually great,” he mentioned of the expertise.
Depraved is now accessible in theaters.