And Bob Mackie Is Doing The Costumes
Howard Crabtree’s “When Pigs Fly” is a campy revue that opened at New York’s Douglas Fairbanks Theater in 1996 and racked up 840 performances, making it one of the longest running off-Broadway shows of its era. Crabtree made all the costumes, and they were, well, a stitch. Outlandish, witty and gay (in both senses of the word), they were as funny as the quips and songs. In one number, “Wear Your Vanity With Pride,†vanity tables were part of the costumes. If you missed the show, then you’re in luck: Joshua Goodman, one of the producers of “Come From Away,†is reviving “When Pigs Fly†off-Broadway in the fall. Mark Waldrop, who wrote many of the sketches for the original, will direct the new production, assisted by choreographer Denis Jones (“Honeymoon in Vegasâ€). And I’ve buried the lede! Bob Mackie — he of “The Carol Burnett Show” and Cher’s many iterations — is doing the costumes.
