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Comments (0) Best Costume Design - 2009

Ellis Tillman

Ellis Tillman

280 Miracle Mile

Coral Gables, FL 33134

305-444-9293

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Costume quality, more than any other aspect of theater, is determined by money. If you've got a lot of it, you can dress your actors as cats, French aristocracy, Queen Elizabeth, or anything else. If you don't have any, you dress them in corduroy and denim. So let's take a moment to praise a decision that had almost nothing to do with money, though it was made in service of a production with plenty of money to throw around. To wit: to dress Shane R. Tanner in tights that were ever so slightly too small in Actors' Playhouse's wonderful 1776. The tights were a very light gray — under the lights, they became the color of an aviation cocktail — and if they didn't show absolutely everything as Tanner tromped angrily around the stage singing "Molasses to Rum," they showed enough. The man has beautiful thighs. His quads could crack a Brazil nut, and do unspeakably wonderful things to any softer-fleshed critter. His calves are constructed of the same curves and angles God first employed to create the hindquarters of a horse — sensuous, meaty, almost edible. You want to touch them. Or bite them. At the very least, you want to see them again.

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Hana
Hana

I am looking for Mr.Ellis Tillman he was custume designer at the Coconut Grove Play house.I use to work in a restaurant called"Taurus" and Ellis was my good friend.I lost his address and the phone # was disconected.I would be greatfull if someone would givehim this note that I am looking for him to say Hallo.Thank youvery much and my name is Hana and my phone # is 8133554169

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