this is our working warehouse and we are in new york, i will not tell you exactly where, but we are in new york city and this is where we keep spare costumes that we need to do fittings and stuff. my name is sam and i am the associate costume designer for phantom and i have been with the show since 1989. we did a count about four orfive years ago and at that point we determined about 7000 individual costume pieces were here, so there is a lot. we did not even count the hats and shoes. this is meant to set the stage for everything you are meant to see for the next two hours and 20 minutes. this is the level of decor and texture. this is like a cage so i have a lot of steel going around here. but makes me very upright which is great. there is definitely something that