On June 5, “Call Me Ben”, music by Jay Greenberg, coreography by Melissa Barak, will open at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater: Gilles Mendel designed the costumes, reports WWD.
This afternoon, 50 supporters of the NYCB will be treated to a private rehearsal followed by a luncheon at the theater hosted by company ballet master in chief Peter Martins, Bergdorf Goodman president and chief executive officer Jim Gold and Gilles Mendel, who designed the costumes for the performance. The designer was intrigued by the project, and particularly fancied the Siegel story. “The first thing you think,” he says, “is Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire — and how the hell I’m going to make this dress glide on stage.”
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