Broadway Community to Celebrate Life of Wardrobe Supervisor Irene Bunis
(© Mimi Vaeth)
The Broadway community will come together on September 26 to celebrate the life of beloved wardrobe supervisor Irene Bunis at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Irene Bunis, who died July 21, worked as a veteran wardrobe supervisor for many Broadway productions since 1980. A graduate of SUNY Brockport, Bunis began her career in the wardrobe department of the Jose Limon Dance company and subsequently worked with the Dance Theater Foundation, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the Metropolitan Opera. She joined the Theatrical Wardrobe Union Local 764 in 1981.
Bunis' Broadway productions included La Cage aux Folles, M. Butterfly, Nick & Nora, Crazy for You, Meet Me in St. Louis, Sunset Boulevard, The Capeman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Mamma Mia!
She is survived by her husband Barry Gelda, her children Michelle and Samuel Gelda, and her brother, Harvey Bunis, and sister, Sobyl Bunis.
Donations in Irene’s memory can be made to Broadway Cares/Broadway Fights AIDS and Memorial Sloan Kettering.
