Make up and Hair for Sunday

With all of the challenges we'll no doubt encounter with costumes, set pieces, and props, I'd like to keep the hair and make-up as stress free as possible.

Orphans: Your hair should be fairly unkempt, and make-up minimal. You'll just need a little eye liner, some rouge--but don't think too pink or red, more along the lines of an earthy color, and a little earthy color on your lips. If you're looking too washed out we'll let you know for the next run through.

Street people/chorus: If you are a poorer street/chorus person, use the orphan's instructions for how you should do your hair and make-up. If your character has more money, you would want more style to your hair (Google hair styles from the 30's for ideas) and your rouge and lip color would have more color-- think along the lines of pinks, rose, raspberry and red for lips/just pinks for rouge, and you could have more eye color (blues or purples were popular). There's some great sites on line to give you suggestions. Eyebrow pencils were popular and can give you that upper-class look.

Servants: you would have minimal color on, so just a foundation and then just enough color to bring out your features.

People such as the Boylans could go more glamorous: chinesse red lips and pink, red or even black nail polish. They would have left the "moon" white and not painted the tips if you want to be really authentic.

In a nutshell, though, do a little Google searching and you'll find all sorts of suggestions for what to do with your hair. We'll have a couple of Lincoln students on hand to help out, but with such a large cast we'll need you to be fairly self-sufficient. Also, if you are not on at the top of the show, please let people use the mirrors who are on before you.

Thanks much.

Jim Peerenboom