He did not choose the Duke's costume, except to ask for a white shirt.
It's performed in period costume, except for Ashley Zhangazha's open-faced, tremendously engaging Chorus who wears a Union Jack T-shirt and is our modern link with the action.
No one was in costume, except for two friendly middle-aged women wearing t-shirts that read "District 12 Tribute," which they'd gotten at the Columbia bookstore, and a man inexplicably dressed as the Harry Potter character Severus Snape, but there was a buzz of excitement in the air.
A few days before the party we took Lonnie and the baby to the Halloween store to hand-pick costumes for everyone in hopes of avoiding last year's Christmas card debacle, where everyone accidentally showed up in the same costume (except Benny--he marches to his own beat).
For all we get about Cordova and his films (the story lines, memorable characters, favorite motifs and symbols, casts, costumes, everything except what there was to eat at the craft service table), the story isn't really about him at all but about his daughter, Ashley, an equally larger-than-life figure, matter to his antimatter.
The British love their period costume dramas, except when they don't.
Second Life, in case you haven't noticed, is sort of like a huge video-game version of a costume party, except that it has an economy.
No props, sets and costumes were allowed, except for four chairs.
We like wearing costumes on every day except Halloween around here, and so I was unbelievably excited when artist Sara Phillips emailed me her Astronaut Suicide photos.
