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thequeendomeffect-noah · 2 months

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So Janiq just got the Parr back pony completely out of the blue (and she looks GORGEOUS).

#six the musical #six west end #janiq charles #this is parr side curls erasure but she looks great so I’ll let it slide #i wonder if they’re gonna try fully standardizing the ponytail?#that’d make me sad because the curls with the big side crown were always my favorite #the double crowns are too similar to Cleves’s

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paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt · 3 months

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Janiq Charles as Catherine Parr Appreciation Post

#six #six the musical #catherine parr #janiq charles #queue took the words out of my mouth

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six-costume-refs · 6 months

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Costume Updates: 2023 West End Cast Change

A few notes before I start: - Kayleigh McKnight (Seymour) is currently injured. Gabriella Stylianou (alt A/S) is temporarily performing in her place, including in the preview footage. - As a general rule of thumb, Six has slowly been standardizing the costumes for both US and UK. Most of that has been changes to the UK system/style to make them more in line with the US changes initially made for Broadway (a few changes have made their way to the US from the UK though). There's been a steady rollout of updates over the period post-lockdowns, but with this cast change most of the major holdouts have been changed at once. I'll get to that in a moment. - Obviously it's very early in the run and we haven't seen all the costumes yet, particularly for alts. I'll continue to update as we do.

Costumes (credits below) - Nikki Bentley's Aragon costume has had a few construction changes to be more in line with the US costumes. No major design differences, though. Not sure on maker yet. - Thảo Therése Nguyễn has the darker green which has been standardized for the last few UK casts. Not sure on maker yet. - Gabriella was previously with Norwegian Cruise Lines as part of Bliss 2.0, but as expected she did get a new costume. Her corset is in the US style/design rather than the UK style (info here, here). I'm not sure who made it and very much wondering if the corset only could be a US-make, but don't have enough information yet to know if that could be the case. I'm also waiting to see what Kayleigh's looks like. - Reca Oakley (Cleves) is another former NCL queen, but as expected she also did get a new costume. It was made by Paul Aspinall. - Inez Budd's Howard skirt has been changed to the US-style construction. This has smaller panels (rather than the old NCL/UK style; post here). However, unlike the US skirts, the vertical stud lines still go all the way to the bottom hem. Per usual, it was made by Ella Dancewear. - Janiq Charles is a standard Parr style, made by Ashleigh Cherry Costumes per usual. - Otherwise, the costumes seem to be in line with all recent UK standardization. - The alts' costumes should match the changes made for these principals.

Wigs/HMU - Nikki Bentley has an auburn tone with a side part and doesn't seem to have bleached/ombre highlights. Curled bob, a little longer than some we've seen in the past. It's a full wig. - Thảo has dark roots with a silvery-toned bleached wig. It's a long wig rather than some of the recent bobs. It's a full wig. - Gabriella has a side part and darker, honey blonde tone. It's pretty mid-range for Seymour wigs but is shorter than some of the recent UK. It's a full wig. - Janiq Charles has the curls pulled over to the side. It's a full wig. - Otherwise, the principal wigs are pretty standard. - No pictures of Naomi Alade in costume yet, but I am expecting her to have braids for all or most of her roles. - We've also seen quite a bit of the makeup so far, which I'll make a post about in the coming days.

Boots @lightleckrereins already made posts about a lot of this (here, here) but for easy access: - The cast seems to be standardized to a shorter heel than prior casts, like the shorter heel Chlöe Hart and Natalie Pilkington both got later in the 22-23 UK Tour run. - They've introduced the double height boots that the US productions have had for a few years now (explanation of the difference here). However, they're still sticking to the regular UK-style boot body with crystals rather than switching to the US-style lattice and studs. Right now it looks like Nikki Bentley (Aragon) and Janiq Charles (Parr) have the double height, while Reca Oakley (Cleves) has the regular Cleves thigh highs and everyone else seems to have regular single height. Of course, that post includes Gabriella Stylianou rather than Kayleigh McKnight so no good look at Kayleigh or other alts yet. - All the boots seem to have interchangeable straps. We first saw these with the US and then UK alts - it allows them to have one pair of boots with a monochrome silver heel and then just trade out their straps depending on which costume they're wearing. This is the first time we've seen that for principals; Sofia talked more about why this change might be happening in the post I linked at the start of this section.

Alt costumes - We've seen a silver alt costume in progress that should be for Meg Dixon-Brasil. (Made by Paul Aspinall per usual) - We've also seen part of a pink alt costume. It could feasibly be either Natalie Pilkington's or it could be one for Hannah Lowther. Judging from Hannah's makeup, she does seem to have their standard makeup pieces for pink alt. - Naomi Alade has orange palette and glitter, so she presumably has the orange alt costume. - We still don't know what costume Natalie Pilkington will have. She has her old principal Seymour/Parr and pink alt system from the 2022-23 UK Tour, and during the 2021-22 UK Tour she had a black alt costume that was a mishmash of old and new pieces. I'm expecting that she'll wear a black alt costume (either entirely or mostly new), but it's possible that she reuses her old pink alt instead (it has been a while since she's worn black alt and most of it was already old). I talked in more depth about some of those possibilities here.

-------------------------- First row for each queen: junka_0.0 Second row for each queen: elliexboleyn (Nikki and Reca), cassie.zhao_ (Thảo), mattstacel (Gabriella, Janiq), Georgia.ccooper (Inez), Boots: crystalledbyjane

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sixthemusicalextras · 2 months

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@/iamjaniq and @/llllaaaattee on Instagram, 20 February 2024

#six the musical #six west end 2032-25 #janiq charles

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janedances · 8 months

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THE NEW WEST END QUEENS

Aragon: Nikki Bentley (Elphaba in Wicked West End)

Boleyn: Thao Therese Nguyen (Miss Saigon National Tour)

Seymour: Kayleigh McKnight (Heather Mac in Heathers)

Cleves: Reca Oakley (Cleves in SIX Bliss 5.0)

Howard: Inez Budd (Heather Duke in Heathers)

Parr: Janiq Charles (Nala in the Lion King UK)

Aragon/Seymour: Gabriella Stylianou (GBBO, Seymour in SIX Bliss 2.0)

Boleyn/Cleves: Naomi Alade (Beautiful - Carole King the Musical)

Howard/Parr: Hannah Lowther (SpongeBob, Heathers)

Super Swing: Meg Dixon Brazil (Rehearsal Swing SIX Breakaway 4.0)

Universal Swing: Natalie Pilkington (SIX)

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thefandomeffect-noah · 6 months

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I’M SO EXCITED YOU GUYS.

#six the musical #six west end #six cast change #nikki bentley #thao therese nguyen #kayleigh mcknight #reca oakley #inez budd #janiq charles #gabriella stylianou #naomi alade #hannah lowther #meg dixon brasil #natalie pilkington #I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE BETTER PICTURES OF THEM IN COSTUME #THEY ALREADY LOOK SO GOOD #six brainrot

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weknowthend · 8 months

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How you may know the new West End cast of SIX:

Nikki Bentley as Catherine of Aragon: Elphaba, Wicked

Thao Therese Nguyen as Anne Boleyn: Cover Kim & Yvette, Miss Saigon

Kayleigh McKnight as Jane Seymour: U/S Veronica in Heathers

Reca Oakley as Anna of Cleves: Previously played Cleves in the Bliss 5.0 production

Inez Budd as Katherine Howard: Heather Duke in Heathers

Janiq Charles as Catherine Parr: Nala in The Lion King

Gabriella Stylianou-Burns (Alt Aragon/Seymour): Previously played Jane Seymour in the second Bliss production.

Naomi Alade (Alt Boleyn/Cleves): Lucille/The Shirelles in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Hannah Lowther (Alt Howard/Parr): U/S Heather Chandler, McNamara & Duke in Heathers

Meg Dixon-Brasil: Previously Rehearsal Cover for Boleyn, Seymour & Howard for Breakaway 4.0

Natalie Pilkington: Previously Alt Aragon, Cleves & Parr for the first Bliss production (2019-2020). She then was the Super Swing for the 2021-2022 production of the UK Tour. Then she was Alt Seymour & Parr for the 2022-2023 production of the UK Tour

#six the musical #six the musical west end #nikki bentley #thao therese nguyen #kayleigh mcknight #reca oakley #inez budd #janiq charles #hannah lowther #gabriella stylianou #naomi slade #meg dixon brasil #natalie pilkington

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unwrittenemmy · 6 months

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Day three hundred and fifty six of posting every six queen

Janiq Charles as Catherine Parr

#six the musical #six #six queens #six west end #west end #janiq charles

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but-im-unbreakable · 8 months

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THE NEW WEST END CAST OMG????

#six the musical #six west end #nikki bentley #thao therese nguyen #kayleigh mcknight #reca oakley #inez budd #janiq charles #gabriella stylianou #naomi alade #hannah lowther #meg dixon-brasil #natalie pilkington

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redladydeath · 8 months

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The West End V5 cast has dropped!

Nikki Bentley as Catherine of Aragon Thao Therese Nguyen as Anne Boleyn Kayleigh McKnight as Jane Seymour Reca Oakley as Anna of Cleves Inez Budd as Katherine Howard Janiq Charles as Catherine Parr Gabriella Stylianou-Burns as the Alternate Aragon / Seymour Naomi Alade as the Alternate Boleyn / Cleves Hannah Lowther as the Alternate Howard / Parr Meg Dixon-Brasil as the Super Swing Natalie Pilkington as the Universal Swing

#redlady speaks #six the musical

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lightleckrereins · 7 months

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Hannah Lowther’s story looks like she has Black alt (old design) or Seymour boots, I’m assuming this is just for rehearsal purposes, right?

Those are rehearsal boots. In the usual costume timeline UK queens get their boots between the second and third week of rehearsals as the rhinestones are finished. But they need to start wearing heels from day one for a few reasons. Including to get used to the height, to build up the strenght needed to wear the boots regularly, so they can learn the choreo taking into account the different step lenght and measure moves with the heels. Basically same reason they wear skirts, peplums and corsets, and have the LIW plattform in the rehearsal room. Simulating stage conditions as much as possible makes it possible for the cast to be better prepared.

But back to boots. Since the queen's boots are not finished by the time they start rehearsals they wear whatever fits best from retired boots. By now there are many that are still in good condition so its very likely they can find something that fits. During the past week the WE queens have posted many of them in their instagram stories and I've actually been trying to figure out who has what. Half out of curiosity half because some interesting combinations are happening.

So far:

Nikki Bentley: an Aragon pair

Thao Therese Nguyen: a pair with the original diamond design that I think is Howard

Reca Oakley: a pair with one strap that doesnt look like the six LaDuca boots

Inez Budd: a boleyn pair

Gabriella Stylianou: a cleves pair

Naomi Alade: a pair with the original diamond design in what looks like light blue rhinestones (a design that has never been used and has me incredibly curious)

Hannah Lowter: a Seymour pair

Nothing from Kayleigh McKnight, Janiq Charles, Meg Dixon-Brasil or Natalie Pilkington. I assume Natalie is wearing one of her old pairs. And on another story a few other boots were visible inside drawers including roxanne's pink alt boots, one set with silver heels that could be one of the 2022-23 UKT alt boots or a teal pair, a pair that doesnt seem to have rhinestones (I assume the one reca wears) and two I couldn't identify which rounds up the cast.

Gabriella and Naomi, Hannah, Thao.

Reca and Nikki, Inez, some of the drawers where the silver heel pair, Roxanne's boots and the Cleves pair Gabriella has are stored, another two pairs were under the table.

So a very random looking mix. I think its funny Boleyn and Howard are currently inverted and am very curious about the boots Naomi is wearing.

But tbh I am more excited to see the new boots that should start appearing this week

#ask #six the musical #six costumes #six boots #six west end

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sixthemusicalextras · 3 months

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