- Sue Blane
Susan Margret Blane is best known for her
costume design s for bothThe Rocky Horror Show andThe Rocky Horror Picture Show . Her designs are some of the most duplicated in the history of film.Fact|date=February 2008Life and career
Blane studied costume design at
Wolverhampton College of Art and Central School of Art and Design, finishing in 1971.Before "Rocky" in 1972, Blane had already met
Tim Curry in 1971 at the Citizen's Theatre inGlasgow ,Scotland , where they were both involved in a production ofJean Genet 's "The Maids". Blane also designed the costumes for other "Rocky" productions, including the 1975 Broadway production and film. Blane also created the costume designs for "Shock Treatment " (1981). Since the "Rocky" film was released, fans have been recreating the designs as part of the cult audience participation. Also, any time any character in the film says the word "blame," audience members shout, "No, Sue's to Blane!"Blane also created the costume designs for
Jonathan Miller 's "The Mikado " for theEnglish National Opera . Other opera credits includeDavid McVicar 's "Carmen " for Glyndebourne,Keith Warner 's "Lohengrin" for theBayreuth Festival , "Lulu" at the New National Theatre, Tokyo,Disney 's "Hunchback of Notre-Dame" (Berlin): "Love for Three Oranges" (Opera North/ENO); "Three Musketeers" (Young Vic); "Capriccio" (Staatsoper, Berlin); "Guys and Dolls" (RNT); "Into the Woods" (Old Vic / West End); "Porgy and Bess " (Glyndebourne) and "La Fanciula del West", withPlacido Domingo (La Scala, Milan).Sue's many production design credits include "The Relapse", voted Best Design by What's On readers, (RNT), "The Nutcracker" and "Alice in Wonderland" for the
English National Ballet ; "Midsummer Night's Dream " (Royal Dramaten Theatre, Stockholm and RSC; "Cabaret" (Donmar Warehouse); "Sylvia" (Birmingham Royal Ballet); "King John, The Learned Ladies", and "Antony and Cleopatra" all for theRoyal Shakespeare Company ; "Barber of Seville" (Scottish Opera); "The Duenna" and "Thieving Magpie" (Opera North); "Christmas Eve" (ENO) and "Lee Miller" (Minerva Chichester). Her designs also feature in a new ballet for English National Ballet based onOscar Wilde 's novella of "The Canterville Ghost" conceived and choreographed byWill Tuckett .Honors
She was nominated for a 1997
Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for her design ofEnglish National Ballet 's "Alice in Wonderland" and aBAFTA nomination forPeter Greenaway 's "The Draughtsman's Contract ". Her current designs can be seen in "Dance of the Vampires " in Vienna, directed byRoman Polanski .Blane received an
MBE (Members of theOrder of the British Empire ) in 2006. [http://www.rockynews.org/articles/2007/01/01/sue-blane-gets-mbe-from-queen-elizabeth]References
* [http://www.timewarp.org.uk/lab/sueblane.htm Information about Blane's design credits]
* [http://www.rockynews.org/articles/2007/01/01/sue-blane-gets-mbe-from-queen-elizabeth Article about Blane and her receipt of an MBE]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0087436/bio Biography at IMDB site]
* [http://www.cosmosfactory.org/actor_sue_blane.shtml Profile of Blane]External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0087436/ Blane's film credits at the IMDB database]
* [http://www.rockymusic.org/showdoc/SueBlane-1979Interview.php Interview with Blane]
* [http://www.rockymusic.org/tags/Sue+Blane.php Photo of Blane]
* [http://www.rockyhorrorarchives.org/orlando2001/sueblane.htm Information about Blane]
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