They\u2019re dressed for \u201cSuccession.\u201d<\/p>\n
City teens heading to job interviews can now look like real stars \u2014 thanks to wardrobes donated from Big Apple-produced TV, online-streaming and theater shows and movies as part of a quirky \u201czero-waste\u201d program.<\/p>\n
The clothing and even set pieces from in front of the cameras \u2014 everything from suits from \u201cSuccession\u201d to props from \u201cAmerican Sports Story\u201d and even foam from \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d \u2014 are getting a second act under the Material for Arts initiative, city officials said.<\/p>\n
Wardrobe pieces from HBO\u2019s \u201cSuccession\u201d were donated to the city Administration for Children\u2019s Services for teens\u2019 job interviews under the city\u2019s Materials for the Arts program. Courtesy of Warner Media\/HBO Max<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York City is a global hub for film and TV production supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs for New Yorkers, and the Materials for the Arts program allows the industry to give back to local communities and promote a circular economy by reducing unnecessary waste,\u201d said Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment Commissioner Pat Swinney Kaufman.<\/p>\n
The program, a joint venture between the city\u2019s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment, arranges for items donated from local productions \u2014 ranging from Netflix\u2019s \u201cYou\u201d to \u201cFEUD\u201d to \u201cThe Marvelous Ms. Maisel\u201d \u2014 to be doled out at no cost to more than 2,000 partnering public schools, nonprofits and Big Apple agencies.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Music School\u2019s May production of \u201cSeussical Jr.\u201d featured a slew of donated film and TV supplies, including a crate from \u201cAmerican Sports Story.\u201d Courtesy Brooklyn School of Music<\/p>\n
In May, Brooklyn Music School\u2019s \u201cSeussical Jr.\u201d featured a slew of donated film and TV supplies, from foam repurposed from the TV show \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d and the \u201cCat in the Hat\u2019s\u201d red crate taken from \u201cAmerican Sports Story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Outfits from the HBO show \u201cSuccession\u201d were donated to city kids. MFTA<\/p>\n
The program also organized the donation of wardrobe pieces in 2023 from HBO\u2019s \u201cSuccession\u201d from a costume warehouse to the city\u2019s Administration for Children\u2019s Services, where youth in the agency\u2019s care wore suits for job interviews.<\/p>\n
Other costume pieces from \u201cBull,\u201d \u201cWu-Tang: An American Saga,\u201d \u201cThe Time Traveler\u2019s Wife\u201d and \u201cCity on a Hill\u201d were donated to an ACS pop-up \u201cshop\u201d the same year. It offered 170 young people lessons from tying a tie to professional makeup tips, as well as free graduation, prom and professional attire.<\/p>\n
Donated props from \u201cPhantom of the Opera\u201d include a hat, shoes and fabric. MFTA<\/p>\n
After \u201cPhantom of the Opera\u201d closed last year after 35 years at the Majestic Theatre, crews donated props, fabric and costumes to the effort.<\/p>\n
When the \u201cBlue Man Group\u201d closed in February, blue paint, drumsticks, lighting equipment, couches, cloths, towels and dressing room shelving were given to the city\u2019s program.<\/p>\n
Local nonprofit Think!Chinatown received a vintage mahjong table set with chairs from \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d to be used in its Lunar New Year celebrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese materials, props, costumes, and furniture are now fueling creativity in classrooms, community spaces, and cultural organizations across the five boroughs,\u201d Materials for the Arts Executive Director Tara Sansone said.<\/p>\n
Props are loaded into a truck outside Manhattan\u2019s Majestic Theatre, the former longtime home of \u201cThe Phantom of the Opera.\u201d MFTA<\/p>\n
The program has received 3.2 million pounds of donations \u2014 which are dropped off at the MFTA\u2019s warehouse in Long Island City, Queens, or at offsite distribution events across the city \u2014 valued at about $7.4 million since 2024 alone, a rep said.<\/p>\n
From 2023 to 2024, the program saw a 14% jump in the number of donations from productions such as \u201cFBI: Most Wanted,\u201d \u201cPhantom of the Opera\u201d and \u201cBlue Man Group,\u201d a representative said.<\/p>\n
The increase was attributed to new offsite distribution events, where MFTA opens entire prop warehouses across the city to its members.<\/p>\n
Since last year, the program has also recruited two new staffers to \u201cactively engage\u201d with prop warehouses, as well as list donation information on the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re proud to work with the Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment and the film, television, and theater industries who are eager to keep these items out of landfill to contribute to a cleaner, greener, more creative New York City,\u201d Sansone said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re dressed for \u201cSuccession.\u201d City teens heading to job interviews can now look like real stars \u2014 thanks…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,19607,1020,5248,405,403,7619,5226,5225,5228,5227,399,37798,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-49922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-broadway","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-life","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-television","20":"tag-theaters","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114820193078328695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}