Not on display

Costume Design

1961 (made)
Artist/Maker
Tingey, Cynthia (costume designers)
Tingey, Cynthia (artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

Design for Rose Grant in Bye Bye Birdie, showing a full length female figure, wearing a knee length, short sleeved, early 1960s style day dress in purple with a boat neck, and two silver or white geometric brooches at the neck. The design is signed and dated and inscribed with the name of the production, the production company, the character and the scene.

Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Designs
Musical Theatre
Object type
Costume design
Materials and techniques
Pencil and gouache on paper
Pencil
Gouache
Paper
Painting
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Design by Cynthia Tingey for Rose Grant in the Suitcase Dance in Bye Bye Birdie, Her Majesty's Theatre, 1961
Physical description
Design for Rose Grant in Bye Bye Birdie, showing a full length female figure, wearing a knee length, short sleeved, early 1960s style day dress in purple with a boat neck, and two silver or white geometric brooches at the neck. The design is signed and dated and inscribed with the name of the production, the production company, the character and the scene.
Dimensions
  • Height: 373mm
  • Width: 274mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Cynthia Tingey -'61'

    Note
    Signature; Lower right hand corner; Handwriting; Pencil

  • '"BYE BYE BIRDIE" / H.M. TENNANTS. / ROSIE GRANT.'

    Note
    Textual information; Upper right hand corner; Handwriting; Pencil

  • 'suitcase dance / under / white coat'

    Note
    Textual information; Upper right hand corner; Handwriting; Ballpoint pen

Credit line
Given by the artist
Object history
This is one of a collection of designs given to the Theatre Museum by the designer, Cynthia Tingey, who created costumes for musicals, cabaret and pantomime, including 15 of the annual London Palladium pantomimes. This design was made for the musical, Bye Bye Birdie, by Charles Strouse (music), Lee Adams (lyrics) and Michael Stewart (book), staged at Her Majesty's Theatre, 15 June 1961. This was a recreation of the New York production, originally directed and choreographed by Gower Champion. Chita Rivera played Rose Grant.
Subject depicted
Costume
Literary referenceBye Bye Birdie
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.56-1999

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Record createdApril 4, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O34790/costume-design-tingey-cynthia/
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