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TOY STORY: THE MUSICAL/ Disney Cruise Lines
Ann Closs-Farley/ Costume Design

Disney Cruise Line has turned one of the most beloved animated features of all time into a theatrical musical aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship when Toy Story-The Musical makes its debut at the Walt Disney Theatre this spring. This is the first time the popular DisneyoPixar classic has been adapted for the stage.
Taking audiences into that world was no small task. In all, Toy Story-The Musical represents one of the largest productions ever developed for a cruise ship. Larger-than-life props help transform the 977-seat Walt Disney Theatre into a toy-sized world of fun and adventure. A rear projection screen aids the transformation between human-sized and toy-sized scenes and takes the show from the comfort of Andy’s room – to the frenzied world of Pizza Planet – to the frightening room of Andy’s neighbor, Sid.
Costume designer Ann Closs-Farley created an extraordinary vision for what the characters would look like on stage. With a combination of articulated puppets and inflatable costumes, the Toy Story characters come to life - including Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, a nearly 9-foot-tall Rex the dinosaur and a 4-foot-round Hamm the piggybank.
Toy Story-The Musical has a repertory cast of 21 performers, and a backstage crew of nine, and compliments an already stellar lineup of entertainment performed every voyage on the Disney Wonder, joining stage shows The Golden Mickeys directed by Diane Paulus, and the award-winning Disney Dreams.
In the last five years, stage musicals created by Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment, exclusively for Disney theme parks and cruise ships, have played more than 18,000 performances to a combined audience of over 20 million guests around the world. These productions have become an opportunity for millions of families to introduce their children to the excitement of live musical theatre for the first time.

check out these links.
News13:http://www.cfnews13.com/Entertainment/HeyJohn/2008/4/11/toy_story_becomes_a_musical.html
Toy Story Link to costume interview /http://www.cdbproductions.com/TSCostumeDeSpudRev2.mov

NORMAN’S ARK at the FORD AMPITHEATER, Los Angeles

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NORMAN’S ARK
A Maria S. Schlatter, Gary Necessary, Danny Fresh & Jessica Hanna, in association with DuHirst Music, presentation of a musical in one act, music and lyrics by Glen Roven, book by Jerome Kass. Directed by Peter Schneider. Music direction, Michael Kevin Farrell. Choreography, Christine Kellogg.
God - Dawnn Lewis
Norman - Philip Casnoff
Alice - Karole Forman
Sam - BJ Wallace
Harry - Noah Galvin
Jenny - Tiffany Espensen
Sets, Jerome Sirlin; costumes, Ann Closs-Farley; lights, Stephen Sakowski; sound, Cricket S. Myers; stage manager, Nate Genung. Opened, reviewed, May 28, 2008. Closes June 8. Running time: 1 HOUR, 15 MIN.
Ensembles: Holman United Methodist Church, St. Finbar’s Children’s Choir, Grace United Methodist Church, United Children’s Choir, 360 Theater, E.S.C.A.P.E. Theater, Dance Studio 84, AMDA Alumni Choir.

TITUS THE CLOWNICUS at the Actors Gang/ Costume Design by Ann Closs-Farley

“Titus the Clownicus” - In the hands of The Actors’ Gang, Shakespeare’s bloodiest and most macabre drama (Titus Andronicus) becomes rip-roaring family fare. Titus the Clownicus is leader of the Red Nose Army. He returns home with his entourage of clowns and puppets victorious after defeating the Green Noses in the Battle of the Clowns, but immediately sets off to avenge the deaths of his sons, and the clown wars escalate.
/>Costume Exhibit at Highways Artist: Ann Closs-Farley

Artist: Ann Closs-Farley
Title: “Eye Strain”
July 2008
A Sex Trade Workers’ choice of fashion is staged to create the experience of visual sexual stimulation. This character is outfitted in it’s occupational uniform of porn and newspaper sex ads to trigger the signal of erotic availability.
Costume: Built of Barely Legals into a Catholic School Uniform (the most requested costume in the sex trade)
Gallery: Highways
During the exhibit men and women approached the model and quickly walked away. No one approached her a second time. 2 Gentlemen slipped her their phone numbers. 1 woman scoffed at her while walking by. One young man filmed her during the night but only from a distance of 15 to twenty feet away. A little girl tried to approach her several times but was shooed away by her Mother. She couldn’t stop staring at her all evening. Eventually no one came in the exhibit area she was in if she was there. Interesting.
Model: Molly O’Neill

Sneaux: The Musical

Reviews: Ann Closs-Farley’s costumes are hilariously glitzy/
Ann Closs-Farley’s Costumes Are Notable Not Only For Their Wit But Also For Sheer Extravagance!
Tim Garrick (Book)
Lori Scarlett (Lyricist, Composer)
Andy Fickman (Director)
Leigh R. Crawford (Executive Producer)
AnneMerie Donoghue (Executive Producer)
Debra L. Gainor (Producer)
Betsy Sullenger (Producer)
Glenn S. Gainor (Producer)
Meredith B. Robinson (Producer, Casting Director)
David Manning (Musical Director, Vocal Arrangements)
Brian Ralston (Orchestrations, Arrangements, Musical Underscoring)
Kelly “Ohso” Devine (Choreographer)
Bobby C. King (Fight Director)
Alan E. Muraoka (Set Designer)
Rand Ryan (Lighting Designer)
John Zalewski (Sound Designer)
Ann Closs-Farley (Costume, Hair Designer)
Shannon R. Kern (Stage Manager)
Stephen R. Ohab, Jr. (Technical Director)
Mark Crowell (Make-Up, Hair Designer)
Brad Elliott (Propmaster)
Rebecca Herron (Costume Assistant)
Lori Beth Bernat (Associate Producer, Assistant to Andy Fickman & Betsy Sullenger)
Jonathan Everett (Associate Producer, House Manager)
David Elzer (Publicity)

HARD TIMES, Evidence Room

Hard Times at the Evidence Room
HARD TIMES/ Ann Closs-Farley’s simple effective costumes use earth tones as well as the burgundy favored by Victorians and the vivid colors worn by the circus players.
Adapted from Charles Dickens’s novel by Bart De Lorenzo
Director: Bart De Lorenzo
Cast: Jan Munroe (Thomas Gradgrind), Ames Ingham (Louisa Gradgrind), Ben Messmer (Tom Gradgrind), Colleen Kane (Sissy Jupe), Adrian A. Cruz (Bitzer/Kidderminster), Henry Lide (Mr. Sleary), Don Oscar Smith (Josiah Bounderby), Janellen Steininger (Mrs. Gradgrind/Mrs. Pegler), Kevin Cristaldi (Childers/Stackbridge), Lisa Black (Mrs. Sparsit), Michael A. Shepperd (Stephen Blackpool), Liz Davies (Rachael), Blake Robbins (James Harthouse).
Set Design: Jason Adams and Alicia Hoge
Lighting Design: Lap Chi-Chu
Costume Design: Ann Closs-Farley
Sound Design: John Zalewski
Winter Wonderettes

A David Elzer, Peter Schneider and Marvelous Dreams presentation of a revue in two acts; created, directed and musical staging by Roger Bean. Musical director/orchestrations, Brian Baker. Choreography, Janet Miller

Missy - Misty Cotton
Betty Jean - Julie Dixon Jackson
Suzy - Bets Malone
Cindy Lou - Jill Van Velzer

While prepping for a scheduled move to Gotham in early ‘08, cast, crew and characters of the long-running revue “The Marvelous Wonderettes” take time out to offer a Yuletide-themed sequel, “Winter Wonderettes.” While there weren’t exactly a lot of burning questions left open at the end of the original, time spent with these talented songbirds is as comfortable as coming home for the holidays to cocoa and a Johnny Mathis Christmas album.
The quartet performs at their 1958 high school prom and 1968 reunion in the “Marvelous” original, so creator/helmer Roger Bean rolls ahead a few months as ambitious Betty Jean (Julie Dixon Jackson) taps them as entertainment for the holiday party at Harper’s Hardware (we’re the employees).

As we await Mr. Harper’s arrival as Santa with our bonus checks, the Wonderettes regale us with 25 pop holiday standards while catching us up on their lives. Ditsy cutie pie Suzy (Bets Malone) is pregnant again by hubby Richie at the light board. Bespectacled nerd Missy (Misty Cotton) is recently wed (to an audience member house left), while sultry, unattached Cindy Lou (Jill Van Velzer) vies with Betty Jean for the attentions of Bob from Plumbing, great fun for some guy sitting house right.

The Wonderettes’ act remains an altogether pleasant mixture of character conflict, ineptitude and terrific McGuire Sisters-style chantoosing, accompaniment crisply prerecorded. Their deadpan-serious take on Christmas songs from other lands is a hoot, but they know how to sell solo numbers straight as well. In ensemble singing and Janet Miller’s impressive dance routines, the Wonderettes blend like smooth eggnog.

Malone’s is the most distinctive comic creation, a distant cousin of “Golden Girls’ ” Rose Nyland with a sassier streak. Still, all four get moments to shine.

Victoria Profitt seems to have recycled every paper snowflake and holly sprig in Los Angeles for a set evoking a TV Christmas special from the 1960s. Lightly satirical sense of period is carried through in the bouffant hairdos and Ann-Closs Farley’s gowns (”blue, in honor of our Jewish friends”)