Inside ‘The Masked Singer’ exhibit at NYC’s Paley Center: ‘Some costumes wouldn’t fit through the doors’
12.04.2024 - 18:57
/ nypost.com
“The Masked Singer: Behind the Mask! Spotlighting the Show and the Costumes That Captivated America”) features 11 costumes from the hit reality competition series. “11 costumes for 11 seasons.
It’s not 1 to 1; there’s not one costume from every season,” curator Jason Lynch told The Post. “The idea was to have an array of costumes that cover the scope of the entire run of the show.” The Fox show — which airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
and is hosted by Nick Cannon — follows celebs who don elaborate costume disguises that obscure their identities as they perform songs. Panelists Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke and Rita Ora join the audience in trying to guess who’s beneath the mask.
The 11 costumes in the exhibit are Miss Monster (which was worn by Chaka Khan in Season 3), Yeti (Omarion in Season 5), Mummy (“Brady Bunch” actors Barry Williams, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland in Season 8), Gazelle (Janelle Parrish in Season 10), Flamingo (Adrienne Bailon-Houghton in Season 2), Leopard (Seal in Season 2), Rottweiler (Chris Daughtry in Season 2), Mushroom (Aloe Blacc in Season 4), Seahorse (Tori Kelly in Season 4), Chameleon (worn by Wiz Khalifa in Season 5) — and Gumball, which is being performed in on the now-airing Season 11, so its wearer hasn’t been revealed.“There were a lot of factors that went into determining” which costumes are featured, Lynch explained. “A big one was that some of the costuming was so elaborate and so big, they wouldn’t actually fit into the museum doors.” “There were a few that were immediately off the table.
Hydra was one of them,” he said, citing the costume worn by celeb magician duo Penn & Teller in Season 7.“There was a hawk costume in Season 10 that has wings. The
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