For its Emmy-nominated third season, “Only Murders in the Building” went Broadway, which meant new characters, new locations, and a whole lot of razzle-dazzle. The Hulu series finds out if the show really can go on as podcasters and amateur sleuths Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) investigate the murder of Ben Glenroy, the leading man of Putnam’s Broadway musical “Death Rattle Dazzle.” Putting on a show within a show required an extra level of collaboration between creative departments.
Makeup department head Arielle Toelke tipped her hat to her colleagues while discussing her recent Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic). “It takes a village, right?” she told IndieWire. “Putting on a Broadway show is not easy.
Making a television show is not easy. Making a Broadway show to put on TV is extra not easy. Everyone is helping each other, collaborating with each other to make the show happen, which I love.
” Toelke also credits collaboration as a crucial component of her approach to creating a character’s makeup looks. During the creative and design process, she is in constant dialogue with the showrunners, costume designer, and hair designer to ensure her makeup design supports the overall story and character development. For this season, Toelke worked with the show’s lighting team during their tests at New York City’s United Palace Theatre to see how the lighting plans would impact .