Ep. 180: Getting Witchy with Craig Jessup, Makeup Supervisor for Wicked Broadway
Fat Mascara
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4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Craig Jessup, makeup supervisor for Wicked Broadway, tells us how he went from working with Kevyn Aucoin to working on the Broadway smash, which celebrates its 16th anniversary this week. We chat about Craig's theatrical makeup must-haves (including his favorite wipes), his scariest career moment, and how he gets Elphaba's green skin so good.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Halloween. |
| 0:07.0 | It's a spooky time of year. |
| 0:11.0 | It's all so far, I can't do it anymore. |
| 0:13.0 | It's got mascara. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Jen. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Jess. |
| 0:16.0 | I love Halloween finalia. |
| 0:18.0 | I know you do. |
| 0:19.0 | I know you do. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't like going out on Halloween. |
| 0:21.0 | I stay inside. |
| 0:22.0 | I hide because the city is crazy in |
| 0:25.0 | Halloween. It's so scary. And this would be so many like Joker masks, like no |
| 0:28.7 | thanks, okay? I'm literally like taking an Uber home from work and like |
| 0:32.4 | locking the door. |
| 0:34.5 | But I am so excited about the spirit of it that we had to get Craig Jessup from Wicked. |
| 0:41.5 | If I may say so this was a genius booking on your part. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:46.0 | Craig is... |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, yes, I'm Jess. |
| 0:48.0 | Did we say that? |
| 0:49.0 | I don't know. I'm so excited about Halloween. |
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