Original Broadway Costumes

for Bright Star's high school tour

The original dresses from the Broadway run of Bright Star went missing. Or they were danced to smithereens.

That dress and a few replicas used to be sitting on a hanger in a corner of Musical Theater West’s costume storage. When the Broadway run closed and it was clear the tour would be short, MTW bought the set and the costumes from the original show. For $2,000, a school can rent this whole costume package now - minus this dress. sad sigh.

The photo on the left is the Musical Theater West's production, the two on the right are the costumes from the original pre-Broadway run at Center Theater Group.

I bet I could bargain that $2,000 figure down. As I understand it, the costume sketches or extra fabric do not come with that rental. If Musical Theater West just bought the costumes, but not the designs, and you wanted the real originals; I would call Jane Greenwood, the costume designer.

Jane lives in a townhouse in Alphabet City in Manhattan. On the garden level there are rows of filing cabinets with research for shows to come and shows that have been. She has had enough assistants sifting through those files over the years, that I bet someone ot…