Pink Pants - spotlight on Wardrobe

Wardrobe department cost-cutting exercise??!  

This touring lark is pretty full on! - no blogs since Liverpool - amazingly slack of me... I had a good chat with our Wardrobe department whilst in Aberdeen however, and they filled me in on some show details and Wardrobe secrets: pretty difficult kitting out the dancers in High Street gear when their moves are athletic to say the least. One pair of jeans not so much split as just disappeared from the posterior of one of our young men, and when other lesser splits and holes appear they never dare use pins to hold things together temporarily as the show is too physical and there are too many lifts; one girl got badly scratched by a belt buckle during one sequence... and as for dancing feet in high street cowboy boots, well - not ideal. Nicky and Jason from Wardrobe explained the complex organisation involved in moving to a new theatre each week and instructing a new set of dressers (two per venue) how to manage the numerous changes (at least 7 per character per show) and moving around of costumes to help things go smoothly, but the funniest thing would apparently be to film them doing the laundry: jock straps ripped off and left in a sweaty ball, tights meshed up with knickers; just a couple of their bugbears, all needing to be unravelled before washing, but first hurled at the wall in a joyous venting of post-show frustration. I loved the image of it! I also learned that black socks from the show get worn home and personal socks arrive in the show wash. Nicky got the measure of that one long ago: the rogue socks are kept, unwashed, and mounting in their number until the guilty party comes calling as they begin to run out of socks.
The most indiscrete personal item to find its way into the show wash was a pair of fluorescent pink boxers! When the other pairs of show pants were accounted for, by process of deduction the garish undergarment was found to belong to none other than the Rev himself! (Steven Pinder http://footloosethemusical.co.uk/cast/steven-pinder/)
Thank you, Wardrobe Department, for your tireless efforts on our behalves!!