• Costume designer Ann Hould-Ward, who designed the costumes for Into the Woods, won a Tony® and an American Theatre Wing Design Award for Beauty and the Beast.
  
• The costumes are made of many different materials including vacuform plastic, vinyl, mylar, latex, and spring materials.
  
• The Beast needs three people to help him into make-up, prosthetics, hair and wardrobe. Originally this process took over three hours before each performance; it now takes only one hour. To help achieve his animal-like appearance, he wears special latex gloves and has special rubber toes glued to the outside of his boots.
  
• Lumiere's second act headpiece is made of polyurethane and weighs less than a pound.
  
• Belle's ball gown weighs 30 pounds. Madame de la Grande Bouche's costume weighs approximately 25 pounds, the majority of which is supported by a weightlifting belt so the actress carries most of the weight in her legs. Over the last ten years, over 86,000 quick changes have been performed in the wings with a total of almost 900,000 costume changes.
  
• During "Be Our Guest" over 45,000 top hats have appeared onstage.

In Bklyn:

• Some costumes are really made of trash bags!
  
• Many costumes are off the streets!
  
• Colors of costumes are based on the junk found!

In Phantom of the Opera:

• The Phantom's make-up takes 2 hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off. The face is moisturized, closely shaved and the prosthetics are fitted, setting immediately, before 2 wigs, 2 radio mics and 2 contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed.
  
• 2,230 metres of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed. The tasseled fringes measure 226 metres. They are made up of 250 kilos of dyed wool interwoven with 5,000 wooden beads imported from India. Each one is handmade and combed through with an Afro comb.