What Makeup Does Wicked Use On Broadway

It's not piece of cake being light-green. Thirty minutes earlier the drape rises on Oz at the Gershwin Theatre, Broadway'due south Elphaba begins getting green. Electric current Elphaba, Jackie Burns, gave u.s.a. the inside scoop with makeup supervisor Craig Jessup on the greenifying process and all the tips and tricks of the trade.

Leave the door open up.
Being Elphaba can get a little solitary, co-ordinate to Burns. Although she says you never have any time to yourself considering "Team Green" comes in to prep, she rarely gets to see her co-stars. "We both continue our door open and so that we tin talk to each other then everybody stops by," Burns says of her and current Galinda, Amanda Jane Cooper, "A lot of people think, 'Oh she's busy getting light-green, we don't desire to bug her,' and it's so lonely considering I never become to see anybody in the ensemble."

There are many shades of green.
To get the perfect green girl tone, Jessup uses several different products to create the ideal hue. He starts with MAC Studio Sculpt foundation in NW20 as a base, then applies MAC Chroma Block in Mural Green with a Japanese Hake brush. Then he uses Kryolan Tv Paint Stick in 511 and Kryolan Derma Color waterproof loose powder in P1. There are a lot of layers to the magic!

One of the eyeshadows is discontinued. Then "Wicked" bought the remaining stock.
Jessup uses 3 MAC eyeshadows for Elphaba's look: Vanilla, Carbon, and Fig. 1. The last was discontinued, just they bought the remaining stock, and now all of the "Wicked" companies share in the bounty.

The wet-willies are the hardest role.
Every part of Burns needs to be greenish, and some parts are less comfortable than others. "Literally when they put this moisture, green paintbrush downwardly your ear. That'south not my favorite part," she says with a laugh. "I get a wet-willie every day."

There's a different lip color for Human activity one and Human action 2.
For the starting time half of the evidence, Jessup applies Prestige eyeliner in Kiwi, only during intermission, he transitions to a darker lip, using MAC Chromagraphic pencil in Blackness Black, highlighted with Gilded Oliver pigment.

It's all about lighting.
At that place are two spotlights set upwardly in the Elphaba dressing room, and both are focused on the wall and then that light is diffused properly. "In the past when the walls have been painted a color other than white my eyes have gone through an adjustment period," Jessup says.

Are yous greenish yet?
While Elphabas come and go, at that place's one piece of décor that never changes. Jessup bought a piece of folk art in Providence, R.I., that says, "Are y'all light-green yet?" While information technology's meant to exist a commentary on beingness environmentally conscious, Jessup loved the "double pregnant" for "Wicked."