Syracuse Stage Costume Shop Manager Gretchen Darrow-Crotty has a favorite line she likes to repeat while working on period pieces: “We aren’t doing the BBC production.”

She’s not throwing shade at the British Broadcasting Company’s famed historical dramas (and their painstaking attention to detail) as much as she’s acknowledging the limitations of live theatre.

“There is a very fine line between accurately recreating something historical and creating something that is user friendly to actors on stage,” Darrow-Crotty said.

That consideration — constructing costumes that look period appropriate yet allow actors to fully express themselves physically — was on Darrow-Crotty’s mind as she and her team began work on “The Hello Girls,” the WWI-era musical now playing at Syracuse Stage. The sho

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