This may seem odd, but:

I love the Wicked costumes. I absolutely do. When I saw the tour (when it first came to Detroit) I remember being absolutely sucked in by the gorgeous-ness of the Bubble gown and staring at like a crazy person. I'm working on a replica of the Popular gown for a convention next year, although I may cave in and try to make the Bubble gown.

Anyway.

Does anyone know of a site, or knows themselves, how the main costumes of Wicked have changed throughout the years? Sometimes I'm going through pictures and I THINK I see differences, but I can't be sure.

The outfits in question, but feel free to mention other costume changes/differences:

*Glinda's Bubble Dress
*Glinda's Popular Gown
*Glinda's 'Wedding' Gown
*Glinda's Thank Goodness
*Elphaba's Act 1 "Party dress"
*Elphaba's Act 1 "normal outfit" (the blue one)
*Elphaba's Act 2 Gown
*Nessa's Act 2 Gown

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I know of some of the main differences from pre-Broadway to Broadway (the popular dress being blue, Nessa's completey different look Act 2 outfit) but I'm really interested in seeing if there is a difference in the gowns from the original Broadway to the current productions, or if there are differences BETWEEN the production's outfits.

Any help/comments/websites/pictures are appreciated!

Glinda's Shiz Dress has changed. And Elphaba's hat is always slightly different.

Also (this is really picky) some Galinda's wear clear skin colour tights at Shiz and other's wear whiteish ones.

If I'm right, I'm pretty sure that Elphie's Act II dress used to have this ruffle-y thing in the front instead of the current dress...I think it was like, a triangle-ish shape with ruffles or something. I saw something (like a documentary or something) where Idina had that dress, and I think SJB had the dress on in a picture. Again, I'm not sure, but I'm also really bad at describing things, so my definition of the old dress might not make sense.

Glinda's one short day dress used to have long sleeves .

^^or a shawl worn over it, or sweater, ie. kristin early san fran

oh and popular dress used to be blue

If you have the OBC Program or the modern one with 'all' casts, towards the end there is a picture of Idina and Norbert doing ALAYM and Idina's dress is completely different.

^ Yeah, it's the dress from the San Fran tryouts.

San Fran dress


The dress now

And also what I have noticed (I am sitting here going back and forth between my OBC, London, and All Programs) they have added a 'frilly thing' to the bottom of Glinda's Shiz outfit.

Also, the yellow OSD dress's design pattern changed a bit from what i've noticed on some pics. Also, i THINK that on some bubble dresses, some Glindas didn't have that collar...i could be wrong.

is that stephanie in the san fran picture? is that from the prebroadway or the tour? did steph go on during the tryout? i thought idina did it...

Stephanie went on once during the SF try outs. On June 24 I believe.

It was on June 8.

Oh, thanks Jessica.

Really glad they changed the Act 2 dress....

^ Can't say I disagree .

It looks so plain compared to the one we have now. The sleeves really bother me... how it just cuts off at the wrists.

I prefer the torn elegance of the one we have now.

^ I agree, it seems to, um, 'neat' if that's the right word. The new one looks elegant and mysteriously sexy which just makes it look gorgeous on the actress!

the bubble dress has REALY changed.
Kristin and JLT I believe had the best Bubble gowns, the ones we have now are still amazingly beautiful but the older ones really had a "beauty" to them.
This is a link to the "original" dress
http://www.castparties.com/gallery/pictures/prod3333.jpg

and here is a newer version of the dress
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4235000...203goodevil.jpg

If you look at the way the petals on the skirt are layed out, you can see a HUGE difference. The bodice is typicaly the same, but the skirt always differs.

blueberry_jam, I'd recommend this site: http://www.geocities.com/galindaswardrobe/Home.html

Yes i like the old bubble dress... but i believe they changed it because it was easier to reproduce[i.e for new glindas/ stand-bys/ unerstudys] and cost less. Krisitns/JLT's bubble dress the sequins were sown (sp?) on by hand!!

Nessarose's Act Two dress in SF, was completely different. I don't have a picture right now, but it shouldn't be hard to find. It was gold and red, and almost styled to be like Madame Morrible, but of course, they changed it.

Also, the bubble dress didn't used to look as plastic.

Here's the San Francisco Try-Out Act II Nessarose dress.

WOW! thats not the fed is it?!?!!? and im glad the costume changed the simple black is much more powerful!

Yep, it's Michele Federer.

Does anyoen have a picture of Glindas OSD dress with the long sleeves or shall?

This is going to be kind of long....

Glinda's costumes have had the most noticeable changes. Kristin Chenoweth and Jennifer Laura Thompson both had the "original" style. The newer/current style was introduced with the national tour, and adopted on Broadway when Megan Hilty took over. All of the North American productions and the Tokyo production use that style, while the European productions have some additional small differences.

All of the dresses have gotten slightly poofier over time....

I made this a while ago to compare the bubble dress. The top row is the style worn by Kristin and JLT. The middle row is the modified, current American/Japanese style. More scallops have been added, and the material is a bit cheaper-looking. The bottom row is the London and Stuttgart styling; notice how the scallops are much more evenly-arranged. Also notice that the bodice has more shape to it.



The Shiz dress has also had a pretty drastic change...it went from a one-piece with 3/4-length sleeves to something a bit more childish-looking (IMO).



And here's my comparison of the party dress. The latter two ("new" and "newest") are the current American and European styles, respectively.


The biggest difference I can see in the Thank Goodness dress is the hat she's wearing.
American:

London/Stuttgart:


It's difficult to compare Glinda's ballgown, because very few pictures of it have been made available. However, the skirt does have scallops on it, and I'm fairly sure that their changes have been in sync with the bubble dress.

I wouldn't say that any of Elphaba's costumes have had any noticeable changes, aside from the SF transition. Her blue turtleneck in act 1 has gone from a full shirt to a partial one; this can be seen in Julia Murney's greenifying video.

Nessa's act 2 gown has changed slightly. The black dress has a broach. Also, her stockings weren't originally striped, but just plain white.


There are definitely some of that I've missed, but that's the bulk of it. Let me know if it's too confusing....

I wish they would go back to using the old material. The ones we have now are still great looking but not as "nice." I know its budget reasons and also time constraints but I think if the costume makers do have enough time (as in they find out who the new Glinda is gonna be a few months in head of time) they should make the older style dress. Same for the Shiz dress, kristin's is gorgeous, the newer one looks more like you said childish. Its not like they dont have enough money lol

Wow. And I like the new Shiz uniform better, because she is young, and it fits in with the frilly pink Popular dress and the frilly yellow One Short Day dress.

Another two that have changed:

here's the OSD old dress




also..i think that nessa's dress used to look like that b/c then she kinda resembles Melena more...especially with the hair in everything (but actually it looks like morribles TG dress)

ahh!! i just post a second late, and morrible wore funeral clothes when they used to have Dr. Dillamond's death

I think the Galinda Shiz dress was changed because the new one would be so much easier to get into after NOMTW.

WOW!!

Thank you so much!! That's ridiculously awesome and informative. I didn't know that the Stuttgart had differences as well.

And I agree with some people that the new Bubble dress looks almost... plastic sometimes, and the new Shiz outfit is more childish. I think it kind of works with some of the new American Glindas, because aside from Kristin and JLT, most of them play Act I Glinda as extremely spazzy and almost valley-girl ish. The old Shiz outfit reminds me of something a college student would wear - very mature and elegant. I kind of like the style of the new Bubble dress (with the petals being very defined) but the materials leave something to be desired. The first dresses look just... amazing, like something a fairy queen would wear. o.o;

And thanks so much to whoever provided that link! (I have dial-up and it's not cooperating so I can't see who posted it, but it's extremely helpful and interesting!)

Me, if you can see this, lol! I'm glad you find the site interesting. I find it a great source of pictures, thought I've never really looked at the costume construction side of things as, while I'm very interested in costume & can happily spend hours discussing Glinda's outfits, it would never occur to me to actually try & make any myself.

Another thing I don't think has been mentioned yet is that, as well as losing the shrug, the OSD dress has also changed a lot in bodice design. Origionally, for Kristin, the bodice was in two parts with a horizontal seam under the bust and was just plain material. (This can be seen in the pic that has already been posted to illustrate the shrug & in the Idina/Kristin OSD promo pic at http://www.wickedthemusicaltour.com/images...Dphotos011.JPG). Now it's similar in design to the Popular dress bodice & has very fine ribbon detailing which can only really be seen in HQ pics so the Shoshana/Megan promo pic is the best one I can think of to show it. I can't find a link to an HQ version of that at the moment but hopefully someone else can find/upload it (all my pics are on my other computer).

I like how you labeled that. "Ancient" , old, new, newest. I noticed most of the others mentioned, but not the Popular dress.

i dont know if this is what was meant by "ribboning" but you can def. tell how much the OSD dress changed, the old top was more like a tank top, and the new one is heart shaped with more detail




also i found these super old pics of the popular/ could be just another optional dance dress, it kinda looks like part of the uniform...also the fiyero's jacket also was improved over the years

^ That looks like screen caps from a video of the deleted song "Which Way Is The Party?", right? Is there a video of it somewhere?

^That was on the "Road to B'way" DVD, right? I have that SOMEWHERE....

On the road to broadway DVD, the clip they of Which Way's The Party is a rehearsal-they're in street clothes, so those aren't caps from the DVD

^Are you sure? I know it shows them in street clothes, but I thought it showed them onstage in costume as well.

they are caps off the dvd, i got it from a kritsin fan site...its probably just an old popular dress..i think it's a deleted scene
they also show the very construction of the bubble dress

I never knew that those pictures of Cheno and Norbert were from Wicked...wow. Thats amazing to me.

Yeah, here's some videos including the one you mentioned!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uvEsiqf2E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4AGoU9TKDw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UcP_R7GOdM

Thank you for the links!

I don't know if this counts, but the Fiyero ALAYM button-down shirt is different. Norbert wore a browner color, than the greenish looking one we have now.



Sebastian's is greenish.

Those Videos are cool :]

can someone who has the vid tell me for sure what those pics of cheno and norbert are from...i know i posted them, but idk what scene there from

Finally getting round to posting pics to try to illustrate what I meant, by "ribbon detailling" I was referring to the thin strips of different colours that are visible through the organza(?) top layer of the bodice. (The best pics I could find were HQs of the post-RVP meet&greet from Idina-Here so the Glinda is Helen.)



Compare that to Kristin's origional with its undecorated bodice:

Thanks for posting those catalys

Thanks to everyone who's posted pictures and the like! I'd reply individually but dial-up is killing me.

Feel free to post any more differences.

I love (some) of the changes, since they seem to fit with the portrayal of the character. Kristin's Galinda was a bit more "refined" (aka stuck up, not so... ah... PERKY) and her Shiz outfit seems to reflect that.

I have a question regarding a different change in Wicked. Did they ever change the program? Like with pictures of more than just the OBC?