Do doo! Do doo! Do!! A Trio.

voltee ♦ September 23, 2010 ♦ 2 Comments

Item: Skirt Color/Fabric” Black, polyester/wool/spandex Designer: Gap Years Owned” 6ish?

Item: Skirt Color/Fabric: Black, cotton/spandex Designer: Isaac Mizrahi Where Purchased: Target Years Owned: 5ish?

Item: Skirt Color/Fabric: Black, cotton Designer: Odille Where Purchased: Anthropologie Years Owned: 4ish?

Here I offer for your consideration three black skirts. But first I have to confess that I have yet found another black skirt that I forgot to put away, so now the BS total has risen to 18. Now I have to get rid of 6. Since a few of you have expressed concern about voting for or against a BS without seeing the others, I thought I could start showing them in groups of three. You should be able to vote for one, yes?

In order to try to go to bed before dawn, however, I’ve chosen three skirts whose stories are sort of intertwined, so that I don’t have to write three separate tales tonight. I know that the format of this post isn’t as nice as it would be if Nate hadn’t gone to bed already, but it’s the best I can do on my own. To make things easier, I’ll refer to the first skirt posted tonight as skirt #1, and so on.

All three of these skirts remind me of the summer I was in Company, in 2007. I was cast as April, a stewardess, and it’s not a huge role, but it was probably the the most I had ever had to do on stage up to then. Ok, it absolutely and definitively was. And I was terrified.And not least when shortly after accepting the role, the director casually asked me “You’re alright with being naked on stage, right?”
“Naked naked?” I asked in a tiny voice.
“Yep,” he answered in a loud and firm voice.
“Um, not really,” I said in barely a whisper.
“Oh, you’ll be fine!” he exclaimed, laughing loudly.
Long, long silent and tortuous pause.
As it turns out, I did not have to actually be naked. Since I may really have expired if that had occurred. Or maybe just melted into a puddle Wicked Witch style. In any case, it would not have been good. The reality was not much easier, however. I did have to strip on stage and then sing a song in my underwear. I wore skirt number 3 the night we rehearsed that scene. Kevin had asked that we wear clothes that were easy to get out of, so I chose this skirt due to its elastic waistband. Simple! Quick! And Easy! And I sort of cheated by wearing little shorts underneath.
That rehearsal, I have to admit, is a blur. I think that my entire body was red from head to toe. I looked like a giant lobster in a ruffled skirt. And it was probably not the best night for me to audition for another show in the middle of rehearsal, since I was already nervous, but that’s what ended up happening. I’m not sure which is more horrible; auditions or taking off clothing on stage. All in all, it was a horribly awkward night for me, even though we didn’t really end up doing all that much stripping. It was sitting there on my shoulder like a 500-pound parrot all night.
Skirt number 2 I wore the day we did publicity shots for the show. I thought that I would be a professional looking stewardess, in a nice, knee length pencil skirt. The skirt was deemed too long, though, to wear in the show, and that’s where skirt #1 comes onto the scene. I have a picture of me in this one:

I am actually very glad that I wore this one instead of skirt #2. It would have been an entirely different character if I had been wearing a pencil skirt. I am always amazed by how much costumes can change everything in a show. All of the costumes in Company were painstakingly chosen, and I loved them all. It’s just a great show, and such fun to be in. I ended up loving every second of it. Well, maybe not so much the massive amounts of second hand sweat that was involved… Anyway, I’m proud to have done it, but I do not ever want to sing in my underwear ever again if it’s not in the privacy of my own bedroom. Or living room. And sometimes kitchen.

So here’s what I would like to have happen in a perfect world. I would like to get rid of two of the black skirts that I’ve posted this week. Could you help me? I will tell you that the one I have worn the most is #3 from tonight. I don’t really have another one that’s quite as flouncy, so I’m partial to it. #1 from tonight was great for the show, but I’ve never worn it since. It’s just a little too short for my real life. And I think #2 from tonight, and the skirt I posted on Sunday are very similar. I don’t know which I prefer. What do you think?

**Number One I decided to toss, Number Two moved to the Costume Bin, and Number Three is staying.  For now.  It’s starting to show how much I love it…