Spectacular Surprises

Last December, two days before opening night of the BSO’s Holiday Spectacular, a package was delivered to executive producer Dori Armor and costume designer David Burdick: 10 pairs of gold leather elf shoes.“They were all handmade for each elf. It took a month to make them,”Armor recalls. The team soon discovered, however, that the Vessi waterproof shoes for the largest elf—“he was the size of a football player,” Armor says—were much too small.It was down-to-the-wire decision time for Armor: Should the largest elf just wear a different pair?Read more at...Overture, December 2007 (Cover).