Iolanthe Wings

In 2007 I was in Iolanthe, or, The Peer and the Peri, at Lyric Theatre. The costume designer, Pat, who is a delight and as creative as the day is long, fashioned wings for all the fairies. The wings were built using knee-highs stretched over ovals made of wire coat hangers. They were then coated with watered-down white glue and painted. Each wing was made up of two of these ovals: one each for the upper and lower halves of the wings. Pat let me paint a handful of the wings, and I worked pretty hard on it. Pat had assigned a flower to each fairy, and the wings needed to look like that flower and match the costume. Bethany and Michelle took pictures of the wings, and I thank them for letting me use them. You also might notice that we added color to our hair. Fun stuff.

Here are the wings:


ForgetMeNot

Bethany: Forget-Me-Not*

Poppy

Cara: Poppy

Honeysuckle

Cheryl: Honeysuckle


Pussywillow

Connie: Pussywillow

Cattail

Dana: Cattail

 

Foxglove

Elinor: Foxglove

Thistle

Jen: Thistle

Fritillary

Joan: Fritillary


Trefoil

Lydia: Trefoil*

WildPansy

Meb: Wild Pansy

Bluebell

Michelle: Bluebell*


 

Dusty Rose

Pat: Dusty Rose

Daisy

Tiffany: Daisy*

 

Private Willis

Private Willis after sprouting wings

Iolanthe wings

Here's a puddle of wings that includes Iolanthe's in the lower left
(yeah, I did those and they're a heavy fave).

 

* Wings I painted.


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