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Susan Margret Blane is best known for her costume designs for both The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Costume design is the Design of the appearance of the characters in a Theater or cinema performance The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British stage musical, opening in London on 19 June 1973 The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical Comedy film that parodies Science fiction and Horror films. Her designs are some of the most duplicated in the history of film.

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Life 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 in Glasgow, Scotland, where they were both involved in a production of Jean Genet's The Maids. Timothy James Curry (born 19 April 1946 is an English Actor, Singer, Voice actor, and Composer, as well as having a career as a Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Jean Genet (ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ in French ( –) was a prominent controversial French writer and later political activist. 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). Shock Treatment is a 1981 comedy - musical and a follow up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 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 the English National Opera. Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British Neurologist, Theatre and Opera director The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu, is a Comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and Libretto by W English National Opera (ENO is the national opera company of England, and one of two opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera at Covent Other opera credits include David McVicar's Carmen for Glyndebourne, Keith Warner's Lohengrin for the Bayreuth 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, with Placido Domingo (La Scala, Milan). WikipediaWikiProject_Opera#Infoboxes --> David McVicar (born 1966 Glasgow) is a Scottish Opera and Carmen is a French Opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The Libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based Lohengrin is a romantic Opera (or music drama in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner. The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of Operas by the 19th century German composer Porgy and Bess is an Opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, Libretto by DuBose Heyward, and WikipediaWikiProject Opera#Infoboxes --> José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE (born January 21, 1941) better

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 the Royal Shakespeare Company; Barber of Seville (Scottish Opera); The Duenna and Thieving Magpie (Opera North); Christmas Eve (ENO) and Lee Miller (Minerva Chichester). English National Ballet is a renowned Classical ballet company based at Markova House in London, England. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by " The Knight's Tale " from The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company Her designs also feature in a new ballet for English National Ballet based on Oscar Wilde's novella of The Canterville Ghost conceived and choreographed by Will Tuckett. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of

Honors

She was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for her design of English National Ballet's Alice in Wonderland and a BAFTA nomination for Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract. The Laurence Olivier Award is regarded as the most prestigious award in British theatre and is presented in recognition of artistic achievement in London theatre English National Ballet is a renowned Classical ballet company based at Markova House in London, England. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is an English Film director born in Wales. The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British Film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Her current designs can be seen in Dance of the Vampires in Vienna, directed by Roman Polanski. Dance of the Vampires (or Tanz der Vampire as the original German language version is named is a musical remake of a 1967

Blane received an MBE (Members of the Order of the British Empire) in 2006. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. [1]

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