Twenty questions.(Interview)

American Theatre, February, 2005 by Long, William Ivey

Four-time Tony-winner WILLIAM IVEY LONG designed the costumes for The Producers, Hairspray and the revival of La Cage aux Folles. In April, Long will work on his 50th Broadway musical (Sweet Charity, with Christina Applegate) and his first Tennessee Williams play (Roundabout Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire).

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How did the farm boy from North Carolina turn out to be, at this moment, the reigning couturier for drag queens on Broadway? I saw this two-page spread in the New York Post, where they had drag queens vote on the production values of four Broadway shows--three were mine. I didn't do Dame Edna. You've never worked on a Tennessee Williams play--ever? I haven't, though I feel like I'm related to him....

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