Broadway Costume Designers Honored at 2014 Tony Awards

The musicals and plays we see would be nothing without the Broadway Costume Designers behind them.  The Tonys were last night, and there were some fantastic plays and musicals nominated for Best Costume Design.  Everything from feathered showgirls in Bullets over Broadway to 1920s Harlem in After Midnight; from transvestites in 1960s Catskills in Casa Valentina to 1920s Bronx in Act One, this year’s nominees are a diverse, impressive crowd.

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” Costume Design by Linda Cho

The Broadway costume designers who won the coveted award, Jenny Tiramani for Twelfth Night and Linda Cho for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder were definite standouts, with Twelfth Night’s traditional Elizabethan ruffs and tights and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Victorian whimsy.

Broadway Costume Designers Nominees:

Best Costume Design of a Play

Jane Greenwood, Act One

Michael Krass, Machinal

Rita Ryack, Casa Valentina

Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Linda Cho, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

William Ivey Long, Bullets over Broadway

Arianne Phillips, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Isabel Toledo, After Midnight

This year, there was also a special award for lifetime achievement awarded to Jane Greenwood, who also happened to be nominated for Act One. Greenwood has created  Broadway costumes for over 125 Broadway shows, including Once Upon a Mattress, The Iceman Cometh and Our Town. Greenwood also won the Irene Sharaff Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Helen Hayes Award (Washington), and The Lilly Award.  Congratulations, Jane, on an illustrious– and still continuing–career!

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