As the end of summer drew near and during the last two weeks of the SFO season, each apprentice was given the opportunity to design for the Apprentice Showcase Scenes. The Stars of Tomorrow (performers) wore our creations on stage, allowing all of the young talent to show their stuff.
We were given a list of opera scenes from which we chose one to design using a combination of retired costumes from the wardrobe closet plus whatever leftover materials we could get our hands on to create something incredible. I chose Anna Bolena.
As you may have guessed, one wasn't good enough. I volunteered to design a second along with my trusty new BFF, Jerry. It was a doozy. What the heck were we to do with a children's opera called "Help, Help, the Globolinks!" when we had a wardrobe full of classic costume? Have no fear....
Here is the synopsis, "A busload of children becomes stranded when the vehicle breaks down. It is soon surrounded by unearthly globolinks, who are repulsed by musical sounds. A child goes off to get help and the children are saved by the intervention of good music" (http://www.schirmer.com/).
We understood globolinks to be weird little aliens, ironic considering we were only a few short hours from Roswell, NM. Why make it more difficult than it needed to be? Sometimes there's beauty in not overthinking the situation. We used the Roswell alien as our inspiration.
Globolinks was the smash hit of the Apprentice Scenes bringing lots of laughs and cheer as we closed the Apprentice Scenes for the SFO 2000 season.
FYI: Jerry will be jumping in here shortly. He has his own wild stories to share... Stay tuned!
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