Special event breathes new life into old costumes
by Michael Paul Hirsch, Executive Director
Hundreds of costumes have found new life after last Saturday’s Great Costume Give-Away, and we could not be happier!
This event was an opportunity for SBMT to reduce our large inventory of costumes accumulated over many years of productions and see they get a good home, while also raising funds through generous donations to help underwrite the amazing shows we have in store for you during the 2025-2026 season and beyond.
Almost a hundred people came to visit our rehearsal studio/costume storage in San Jose to pick through amazing finds. Our guests mentioned they were looking for Halloween costumes, stunning statement costumes, and costumes for student productions. One educator mentioned that for her Title 1 school, it would have been much harder to try and put on a production without this kind of pay-what-you-can resource.
We hope to turn this into an annual event where we can go through our unlikely-to-make-it-to-the-stage-anytime-soon stock of costumes and accessories and make them available to you. Thank you to all the volunteers who painstakingly went through costumes one-by-one to keep our inventory manageable and in good order.
Nearly 100 fun-loving theatre friends helped us weed through our inventory of costumes from past productions during our first Costume Give-Away event last Saturday, October 11.
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