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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: La Traviata

Title:  La Traviata
Playwright:  Verdi, Giuseppe & Francesco ma  Publisher:  
Year  1853  Genre:  Opera
Period:  Other  Number of Acts/Scenes  4
Passage of time:  Several Months
Basic Plot:  Violetta and Alfredo move to a country house near Paris. Violetta is forced to leave Alfredo to save his family's reputation. He denounces her, but they are soon reunited. The re-union is short-lived as Violetta succumbs to consumption.
Contributor's Name:  Kasey Allee-Foreman
Contributor's Email:  klallee@ou.edu
Budget:  
Producing Organization:  
Cast Size As Written
  Male Actors:  9
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  9
Number of Characters as Written
  Male Characters:  9
  Male Chorus Characters:  0
Total Male Characters:  9
Costume Numbers as Written
  Male Costumes:  21
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  21
Actual Cast Size (if produced)
  Male Actors:  11
  Male Chorus Actors:  12
Total Male Actors:  23
Costume Numbers (if produced)
  Male Costumes:  12
  Male Chorus Costumes:  12
Total Male Costumes:  24
  Female Actors:  3
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  3
 
  Female Characters:  3
  Female Chorus Characters:  0
Total Female Characters:  3
 
  Female Costumes:  9
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  9

  Female Actors:  4
  Female Chorus Actors:  15
Total Female Actors:  19
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  30
Total Female Costumes:  30
Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes:  Double casting of Violetta, Alfredo, Germont. Male chorus were in tuxedos for parties so they only required one costume instead of 2. Female chorus had 2 party dresses.
Quick Changes:  Violetta changes for every act, but there is a large set change
Specialty/Special effects costumes required:  Violetta dying of consumption--Act 4--requires deathbed look.
Other important notes:  Originally this was written to be set in the 1700s but today is usally done in teh 1850s when the opera was first performed. We did it Bustle.

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