Natasha Ricketts - The Wardrobe Highlights

Highlights of Natasha Ricketts as The Wardrobe (Madame De La Grande Bouche) in Beauty and the Beast!
Cumberland County Playhouse
Director- Britt Hancock

[@elleneschenwald4464]

Amazing! My daughter is playing her and really enjoyed this video!!!

[@taliathorson6494]

I'm playing this role this summer and was just searching through some videos for reference.... and WOW! She is Incredible xD I hope I can do half as well.

[@natasharicketts]

wow, thank you so much!!! break all the legs in your future performances!!

[@joeytansey8466]

This is just fun to watch, you don't even need context of the show it's just such a colorful performance

[@natasharicketts]

Thank you SO much!!!!!

[@KatTheLavaGirl]

Thanks! I needed the first clip for an audition

[@janeyrevanescence12]

I played Madame my senior year in high school and was the unintentional cause of the biggest laugh during the final matinee.
Because it was a cheap high school production, my costume as the box was a decorated cardboard box with my head, arms and legs sticking out of it. The "doors" (they were cut out of the flat side with one side being folded to make a hinge) were held closed with Velcro so they wouldn't go flying open until I needed to get things out of them. My torso was hidden by a long shirt disguised to look like a dress. It was overall a pretty neat costume.
It's the scene where Belle meets Mrs. Potts and the Madame and I'm chewing the scenery and being offered seconds. I get to the "let's see what I've got in my drawers!" line and try to open the doors...and they're stuck! I struggle and struggle and struggle and crack jokes with Mrs. Potts and Belle about watching the gray stuff and the pudding en flambe. By some miracle, the doors got unstuck and I thought "we're good." I then clear my throat and said "NOW let's see what I've got in them drawers!" And I yank.
Cue me yanking so hard that I not only send the dresses inside go flying out all over the stage floor but actually managing to rip the "hinges"!
The audience shrieks with laughter and I got a round of applause. Our choir director (who was conducting) was doubled over with tears in her eyes. Belle had to turn upstage so she could hide the fact she was laughing. Meanwhile, Mrs. Potts and I are looking with a mixture of horror and trying really hard not to laugh.
Once everyone had calmed down enough, I said the only thing I could think of..."How embarrassing" before turning my attention to the dresses that are all over the floor. I couldn't bend over to pick them up. So I had to say "I wore...that...when I last performed at the Royal Opera" while pointing to the dress in particular. When the scene finished, Belle had to gather the dresses and carry them off. Fortunately, the stage manager was waiting for me offstage with a roll of duct tape so we could fix the doors.
That evening, during the cast party, our director passed out her awards and I won "Most Creative Use of a Wardrobe Malfunction". I have a lot of fond memories working on that show.
TLDR: I tore my costume as the wardrobe. Hilarity ensured.

[@sadithprice1795]

So amazing !!!

[@natasharicketts]

Thank you SO much!!!

[@kyngo_musik5918]

A love tha accent

[@natasharicketts]

thanks so much!!!

[@icantthinkofanynames1755]

I play Babette in my school musical

[@natasharicketts]

congratulations! Great role!

[@XxLexiMayxx]

I’m playing her in my school play

[@natasharicketts]

that's wonderful! break a leg!!!

[@808natee]

I love the posh English accent

[@natasharicketts]

thank you!!

[@joeytansey8466]

❤❤❤

[@grace1742]

i can only imagine how heavy that mirror is omgg

[@natasharicketts]

I think the entire costume was about 30 pounds total! I was pretty BUFF after this summer! haha!