Mary has volunteered her time in costuming 42 musical productions. For the majority of these (28) she was the lead costumer and for 14 of these, she was a key player as part of a costume team. She has personally sewn over 3,000 costumes for Globe!!
Most people doing work of this nature charge the groups that they are working for. The last show that we did without Mary was Man of La Mancha and it cost us $2,000.00 to get the job done. I estimate that without Mary’s contributions, we would have had to pay between $60 and $70 thousand dollars in outside services. It is fair to say that if she had not done this, Globe would not exist today, at least not in terms of financial success and artistic success. The quality of her work has been recognized at the ACTCO Awards which covers community theatre for the entire Greater Toronto Area.
Mary is not just “all about costuming”. For many years, Mary has been in charge of our rehearsal hall. She deals with the landlord, leaky ceilings, renting out costumes to other groups, changes burnt out light bulbs…you name it. She has also volunteered on the Globe Executive for many years. She participates in the Executive’s decisions and is a key team player. Since we started the Youth Company in Jan 2009, she has been a big supporter of our youth. She has costumed their shows and also participated in our Youth Company costume workshops in 2009 and 2010, bringing 50 or more costumes out for the kids to try on and teaching them about costume design. In addition to all the aforementioned items, Mary has been singing and dancing on stage for over 20 years.
Mary is very pleasant to work with and a much beloved member of Globe. No job is too big or too small. She doesn’t get stressed or get nasty, no matter how tight the timelines are or how much work still has to be done. She simply gets her sewing machine out and stays up all night. When it is all over, she does the laundry, irons the costumes and adds them to our collection, ready for the next show to come along.
Mary lead and managed the production of costumes for:
2010-Beauty and the Beast (Youth Company)
2010- Into The Woods
2009-All You Need is Love (Cabaret), Guys and Dolls
2008-South Pacific, Ragtime, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
2006-Once Upon A Mattress
2005-Big The Musical, Globetrotting (Cabaret), Oklahoma
2004-Don’t Touch That Dial, The Wizard Of Oz
2003-Hooked On A Feeling 2 (Cabaret), Cabaret
2002-Waiting In The Wings (Cabaret), Evita
2001-Hooked On A Feeling 1 (Cabaret)
2000-Encore Encore (Cabaret),
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
Crazy For You
1999-Mame
1998-The Sound Of Music, The Pajama Game
1994-Music Man
1992-South Pacific, Into The Woods
1991-My Fair Lady
And she assisted with the following:
2009-The Wizard Of Oz (Youth Company)
2004-City Of Angels
1999-Gondoliers
1997-Cabaret From A To Z (Cabaret), The Secret Garden, Crazy For You
1996-Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Camelot
1995-Bye Bye Birdie
1995-Leader of the Pack.
1995-Pirates Of Penzance
1994-Anne Of Green Gables
1992-Grease, Oliver
Thank you, Mary, for making us all look so good!
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