Picture!

Unfortunately, you can't see the tail in this one, but it's better than nothing.

Mutants!

X-men has never had one unified canon. There was one canon for the comic books, one for the, TV show, and an entirely different one for the movies. The characters and events are basically the smae, but what order they happen in and who's involved in them, and even who's a good guy and whose a bad guy, changes with each incarnation.
This will be both a blessing and a curse as far as Mutants! the Musical is concerned. On the one hand, it can have it's own canon, designed to incorporate the maximum number of mutant song and dance numbers. On the other hand, a lot more writing will be involved.

Nightcrawler log, day nine

Finished costume. All that remains for tomorrow is hair and make-up. There will be pictures.

Nightcrawler log, day seven

Made shoulder pads and sewed them into vest. Started sewing trim onto pants. Broke sewing machine. Cut trim for arms and sewed it together by hand.

day eight:

Finished sewing trim on to legs by hand as various people tried to fix the sewing machine. Must find a way to attach the tail. Time is of the essence.

Nightcrawler log, dax six

Finished other sock. Learned more about sewing, including that you get a much nicer product when you do it inside out.

Made orange trim for both socks.

Decided to affix the trim to the bottoms of the pants instead of the top of the socks.

Nightcrawler log, day four

Cut fabric for vest thingie. Pinned shoulder pads.

Made one two-towed sock. Man, that took forever. On the plus side, I learned a lot about sewing.

Nightcrawler log, day two

Accomplishments yesterday:

Purchased tight black clothing from Goodwill. Began making pattern for vest-type thing.

Meanwhile, my amazing girlfriend constructed for me pretty much the most awesome tail possible. The tail problem is officially solved. (actually, I still need to figure out how to affix it, so we'll say almost solved.)

Nightcrawler log supplemental

This is something like what I'm going for.

Nightcrawler log, day one

Accomplishments today:

Started log

Made list of materials

Scoured the basement and located my vulcan ears

Attempted, unsuccessfully, to clean my vulcan ears

Purchased orange fabric, socks, and gloves

Cut holes in one pair of socks, cut fingers off of gloves, and combined them into my Nightcrawler gloves, which now need only orange trim to be complete.

Tried to convince Jonah not to abandon his Cyclops costume.

Nightcrawler log, Preliminary entry

With just two weeks until the premier of X-3: The Last Stand, it is entirely too late for me to be just starting on one of my most ambitious costume projects yet. But I am. And I will be journaling my experiences here, for you, the many dedicated readers of this blog. Oh, who am I kidding. For you, Erin.
Anyway, yesterday I scoured Google for a good image of Nightcrawler's costume from the TV series (so as to match Tim's excellent Gambit outfit.) I found several, and came up with a comprehensive plan for completing my costume before the premiere.

Step one: secure materials. I will need:

A long sleeved grey shirt, preferably skin tight.

Grey Pants in as similar a color as possible, with belt loops.

Orange fabric.

Two pairs of white knee socks, preferably with Orange trim.

One pair of those cheap strecthy gloves, also white.

Index cards

A wire coat hanger

Blue fabric.

Blue duct tape.

Blue face paint.

Vulcan or elf ears.

Vampire teeth.

Hair Gel.

Black spray dye.

This afternoon I hope to secure as many of these materials as possible. I intend to complete the hands and feet this week, so I can dedicate the last week to dealing with the problem of the tail.