Meryl Streep’s Broadway Debut Costume Goes on Display for the First Time Ever

Nearly 50 years ago, before she became a Hollywood icon, Meryl Streep made her Broadway debut in an ivory-colored Edwardian costume, carefully sewn with trapunto lace and antique point de gaze. Now, for the first time, it will be on display at the Museum of Broadway, opening November 15. “[Meryl Streep] probably doesn’t even know it still exists,” costume curator Michael McDonald recently told Vanity Fair over Zoom. Streep wore the ensemble for her role as Imogen Parrott in the Public Theatre’s 1975 production of Trelawny of the “Wells” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and now the public can admire… Read Full Article