Her aunt, an art teacher, sent packages with art supplies. “When I was a kid, I was always designing stuff.” “I’ve always loved making things,” said Viscio. Viscio’s daughter Alice, a sixth-grader, is in the children’s choir for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Alice, like her mother, has created all her life. She went on to create costumes for “The Wizard of Oz,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Annie,” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” The costumes for “The Little Mermaid Junior” were challenging - “and I just loved it,” said Viscio. Megan Viscio started creating costumes for Voorheesville musicals five years ago when her son Joseph was in the fifth grade. So maybe people can try to find those two pearls that are among the many colors of the dreamcoat.” And so, I’ve included in the jacket two pearls. Megan Viscio revealed “a backstage tidbit of information.” She said of her mother-in-law, “She calls me her pearl and I call her my mother of pearl. She went on, “I’m always learning from her … I love her so much.” Megan Viscio asked her mother-in-law for help with Joseph’s coat because of her expertise, she said, explaining, “It’s a coat and then down below it’s like panels and a big skirt that balloons out that looks like a parachute.” And I’ve never seen quilts as beautiful as hers.” To take scraps and make it into a beautiful quilt is actually really difficult. “What I love most about her quilts,” said Megan Viscio, “is she will use her scraps - people give her leftover material …. Marie Viscio made seven skirts of tulle, layering one on top of the other, to make it look as if Megan could float - “just like a cloud,” said Marie Viscio. Megan wore a wedding gown that would have suited Cinderella. Like her quilts, each gown was made with care and love, and each was individually tailored to fit the style of the bride. She made wedding gowns for her two daughters, Katrine and Charlotte, and for Megan, the wife of her son, Nicholas. Marie Viscio is a seamstress and a quilter. “The dancing and singing, it’s just beautiful.” “There’s a number where the kids are all in sixties costumes and the Pharaoh’s kind of Elvis - so it’s very fun and lively ….,” Megan Viscio said of the musical. But, in the end, Joseph saves them.Īlthough the plot is based on a Bible story, Tim Rice took liberties with the lyrics as did Andrew Lloyd Webber with the music. The brothers sell Jacob into slavery and tell their father he has died. “We have never liked him all that much before,” sing his brothers. “Such a dazzling coat of colors, how I love my coat of many colors.” I’m a walking work of art,” sings Joseph. The musical is based on the Bible’s Book of Genesis and tells the story of Jacob who has 12 sons and favors Joseph, giving him a coat of many colors to show his affection, which makes his brothers jealous. The young actor’s reaction, she said, “was the pinnacle of all the months of work that we had put into this coat.”
“The song talks about every color that’s in this coat … That’s where we started …I just went to my fabric and started pulling colors, bright colors, a lot of rainbow kinds of colors and put them together,” said Viscio. They used a song from the musical for inspiration. “We kind of see these ideas … coming together and making something really beautiful,” says Megan Viscio in this week’s Enterprise podcast. The pair call themselves The Idea Ladies. She and her mother-in-law, Marie Viscio, had spent months envisioning the coat and laboriously piecing it together. The first time the young actor, Logan Esposito, saw the coat, “He nearly fell on the floor with excitement and just could not believe that this was going to be his coat,” she said. “It definitely has a stage presence,” says the woman who created the coat, Megan Viscio. The character Joseph wears his coat in this weekend’s school production in Voorheesville - where it takes on a life of its own, swirling in its many-splendored colors. When it is Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. NEW SCOTLAND - When is a coat a work of art? When is a coat the center of a play?
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