#six liw

[lightleckrereins]

I recently noticed while looking at the ladies in waiting across numerous productions, that almost all of them appear to be white which seems weird for a show that brands itself with having very diverse casting. While I know that most people sadly don‘t pay attention to the band and the "actresses" are not promoted, it still feels kind of weird to me since I can‘t imagine any practical reason as for why that is.

The thing with bands and orchestras is that they don't work the same way as casts. In most places there is no open call or audition for musicians. Instead they are chosen by the music department and are subject to certain rules. Many times musicians need to already be part of an union, or are required to be local, or are just whoever the music superviser or orchestrator knows and trusts the most. The diversity or lack of it is subject to the system.

And like with most six questions, the answer is it depends on the production: UK started as mostly white but recently has brought in a few non white LIW both as main and as deps (covers). Broadway brought in LIW from a few different pre broadway tour stops, most of them were originally chosen as local stablished theater musicians from the tour stops and as such are mostly white but have a couple non white aand added more on the move to Broadway. Aragon tour, is mixed and pulled from both former broadway and cruise LIW and new musicians. Australia is mostly white but hasn't had enough changes to see future trends (and I have zero clue how things work there). Cruises are basically all non white, and also interestingly the only companies that do have open calls for LIW (who have other music roles on the cruise too).

So tldr. Yes LIW are mostly white, but that is slowly changing. And it is not neccesarily on six, because they have to follow certain rules that make it harder to have a diverse band.

#ask #six the musical #six LIW

[dxntloseurhead]

six celebrated one year on broadway yesterday 💜

#six the musical #six broadway #bre jackson #andrea macasaet #keri fuller #brittney mack #holli’ conway #brennyn lark #courtney mack #mallory maedke #keirsten hodgens #ayla ciccone burton #i would tag all the liw and crew but im too tired to go looking for names

[podsn]

I don't make much six stuff anymore but wa sre watching the six stuff and I got inspired to make this animatic so here is a wip

#art #six the musical #my art #six #digital art #katherine howard #catherine of aragon #catherine parr #anne boleyn #anna of cleves #jane seymour #liw #ladies in wating #animatic

[queerbauten]

tbh one of my favourite little things is when Queen alts wear the Ladies in Waiting costumes

#Six the Musical #this also applies to when Lauren wore a LiW costume as the Aragon main #gorgeous costumes eh?

[sixcostumerefs]

Courtney Mack principal Parr debut, Cecilia’s as-of-yet unannounced replacement, Erin Ramirez on standby; Tay Pearlstein’s B debut, Aryn Bohannon’s B debut, Jana Larell Glover’s P debut; shows with Cecilia Snow as Aragon and Seymour, Jana as Aragon and Cleves, Taylor as Parr; Aline with her HEB and ACL jokes and cowboy boots; casts featuring eight Texan queens and/or grads of Texas colleges, two LiW, and possibly more of both….oh Six loooves Texas

#six the musical #six boleyn tour #aline mayagoitia #elisabeth has opinions

[redladydeath]

six show where the alt costumes don’t even remotely match the queens they’re representing

blue shorts aragon, LiW boleyn, silver skirt seymour, black seymour skirt cleves, orange pants howard, and pink skirt parr

#redlady speaks #six the musical

[six-costume-refs]

No more scheduled shows for alts. No more alt costumes. The end of Swingo? Six definitely seems to be heading towards the end of its lifetime now.

Nowhere near it, at least for the West End!! I posted about it in quite a bit more detail here, but the show schedule is generally good business practice that will help optimize costs + reduce stress on the actors, LiW, and crew. It's actually a really good sign and says that they're feeling comfortable enough to focus on creating longevity.

#six the musical #six west end #elisabeth has opinions

[violivs]

NMTDaily: And So It Begins

- Beatrice’s first vlog! What an opening line, I love it lol. I remembered the hand wave on “hello, people of the Internet” having a wider arc across the screen than it actually does, funny enough! Glad I didn’t specify the wide wave when I referenced this line in MARRIED, the fic I posted on the 25th.

- “I’m not too old for Halloween”, girl after my own heart!

- Always thought it was interesting that Bea’s mother is American. I wonder how/why they decided that. It’s the kind of super specific detail that makes Bea feel so real, because who would make that up? It’s also interesting that it means Bea and Ben’s families are both somewhat international. Another parallel for them, another thing they have in common.

- I bet the Aunties’ wedding was the cutest thing ever, imagine Hero and Leo standing up with them! That’s probably the last time all of the Dukes were together before the story starts.

- I’m surprised Bea’s parents moved because her dad got a promotion. I would have assumed her mom did, because we get the impression of her as the high-powered businesswoman. But good for Bea’s dad. Is it canon that he’s a university professor? (Promotion = tenure?) Or did I make that up for fanfic and/or confuse him with Ben’s parents being professors in canon? Listening for that. Maybe Bea’s dad was actually also a business person all along and that’s how her parents met. Who knows.

- Bea says Australia like I say Indiana, lol (no hate to anyone from Indiana though! Just another of those inborn rivalries with the neighbor, like the Oz/NZ one.)

- “A great science program” I forgot Bea was a science person!

- I always loved the set decoration in this room, I remember it’s Hero’s room, and it’s so artsy and cozy and pretty. Love the wall art.

- “Leo and I are in charge of the house for the next six months” Excuse me, does this series really only take place over six months? Well, it ends in the first week of November, so that’s seven full months. I think it felt like it lasted a whole year when it was airing though. Time slowed down during a certain arc for sure.

- “in-joke with myself!” Classic. I kind of love that the text on screen saying “good one Beatrice” is Bea talking to herself again in-world, but out-of-world it’s kind of the Candle Wasters talking, interacting both with their own main character and with the audience. Meta.

- “Sorry my life is so boring” are like, THE famous last words for an LIW protagonist. Honey, you got a big storm coming!

- I was always so incredibly impressed with Beatrice’s independence, her comfort with leaving her parents and essentially being on her own before she even finished high school. I was alone in a college dorm hours away from home when I first watched this, second semester of freshman year if I’m not mistaken, and I could barely believe I’d managed it. I couldn’t imagine doing that any earlier than I had. I thought she was so brave and cool. I think Bea actually shows more hesitation and nervousness than I realized she did in this episode, both because she’s not used to vlogging yet and because being in a new place is nerve-wracking, but I still think she’s so brave.

- It’s so interesting that in a reversal of the play, it’s our Beatrice who comes from away to Messina to start the story, instead of Benedick and the other men returning from war. Of course, we’ll see how the boys’ arrival on the scene is modernized soon enough!

- Harriett does such a great job making you care about Bea and like her right from the start. You just want to keep listening to her talk. I can’t wait to do just that over the next seven months.

- The Benedict Cumberbatch crush is a stroke of genius, but what are the odds that there happens to be a super famous guy named Benedict that you can reference who is at peak relevance in the exact year your MAAN modernization premieres? Truly, this series as it exists could only have happened in 2014. It was the perfect time and the perfect people. What luck.

- Oh, this is the wider arc hand wave I was remembering! It’s just at the end of the video and not the beginning. Funny!

- Covering the camera with her hand and ducking out of frame at the end of her first video is a direct parallel to what Bea and Hero do in their final NMTD video, sliding out of frame and all. Love that.

- I can’t believe how much there is to talk about even with these early episodes. These posts are gonna get so long they’ll have to go under a cut for the later episodes!

💖🦩🥭

#nmtd #nothing much to do #nmtdaily #violivs nmtdaily liveblog #nmtd spoilers #maybe? just in case

[cavernfullofexistentialdread]

Dead People Musicals™️ explained badly

Hamilton: Pew bang bang write crap oh hell everyone is depressed and Ham is a sleep deprived writer (Cathy) with a list of bad ideas

Ride The Cyclone: Funky choir kids have a fun time talking with a rat, trauma, and realizing they don’t deserve what happened to them all while being the dorks that they are

SIX: Screw men, women hot! Pop band except filled with trauma covered by a chaotic group of friends who just so happen to all desperately need therapy (The LiW are throwing therapy and happiness at them as they screech and hiss like a cat)

#Hamilton #ride the cyclone #six the musical #badly explained #Literally all of them are all filled with trauma in some capacity #Seriously #the queens and the choir really need therapy #3 Cathrines!? #Wait no 2 Cathrines and 1 Kathrine #Ugh who cares #Lmao Cathy and ham #Are sleep deprived writers #Who need a break #*sad Jane noises*

[but-im-unbreakable]

there's the six chaos we knew would be coming sooner or later!! harriet caplan-dean west end debut as parr alongside harriet watson boleyn????? in the liw costume??? 3 weeks before tour cast change????? its giving march 6 2022...

after harriet watson left i thought we'd never get a double harriet show but we did... on the west end and not tour... six chaos has outdone itself. again.

#six the musical #six chaos #what is going ON

[joysmercer]

misc six observations:

the pantages is the most gorgeous theater i’ve ever been in (not that i’ve been in many but u know)

it’s also along the walk of fame and kirsten chenoweth’s star is right by the door (lena horne's is just across the street)

they didn’t advertise my show as accessible but it was open-captioned and asl-interpreted (but it looks like both things were only viewable to ppl seated on the left side)

an old couple next to me were trying to figure out which “chopin composition” the pre-show music was? (they’re all piano covers of pop songs) v confused

the “queen bios” in the playbill list aragon’s interests as “religion, sewing, dancing, and a bit more religion”, boleyn’s says she’s remembered for “headlessness”. parr’s talks about her friendship w mary and that her mom was LIW to some previous wives, but makes no mention of the fact that aragon was her godmother(/namesake) or that she married seymour’s brother

the minute greensleeves started playing, people started cheering. it was so fun

khaila was born to play aragon that's all im saying. literally nonstop applause until the dluh intro

storm's boleyn tiptoed that line between "idk what's going on" and "smart and cunning" so so well

cleves did the ponytail-pull instead of seymour? idk if this is a recent change but it has Interesting implications characterization-wise lmao also it was just funny because olivia had to significantly reach up to get to courtney's hair

speaking of which, both nat and cmack's new wigs look a lot fancier than their old ones somehow

im pretty sure nmp actually started crying during hos (which, even though i've heard her sing it a million times, was every bit as beautiful as i thought it would be)

hoh live is an Experience in the best way, they just looked like they were having the best time bouncing around the stage

the audience member picked for get down was so good/confident olivia cheered for her the entire time instead of doing the "this is my song" bit after shfghjkl

get down is already such a lively song but olivia's version amps it up even more like i was in stitches during the intro and the entire audience was fired up by the end

the k-howard roast didnt get as many laughs as it should've :// i felt so bad for courtney because she delivered those lines flawlessly

and then loud and immediate applause after aywd??? L audience tbh

(also interesting note – the asl interpreter didn’t sign for applause after the song like she did for all the others)

natalie's "I DIED" was every bit as amazing as all the audios. also she basically chased khaila offstage while saying that line sdkf

i think gabriela is my new favorite parr im so obsessed w her take on idnyl and her acting (even in the background) is impeccable

there were some obvious mic issues – both cmack and storm were a bit quieter than everyone else and khaila was way louder; all three of them left the stage at various points for unknown reasons (but there wasn't a show stop and i dont think most people noticed someone missing)

this cast's chemistry was i n s a n e like the little interactions and they way they reacted to each other plus the harmonies…10/10 no notes

speaking of which. there was a really sweet moment toward the end of idnyl ("why should i tell that story?") where aragon puts her hand on howard's knee comfortingly

standing ovation after six!!! idk if this is a regular occurrence but they bowed an extra time because of all the clapping lol

except then people started leaving, so courtney had to start the megasix early and you could barely hear her over the audience

but it was ok cuz people stayed on their feet throughout the megasix too and again the girls took a really long time leaving the stage after bc the cheers kept getting louder!!!

tldr i had the BEST time and if the tickets weren’t so expensive id go again and again <3

#musicals #six the musical #myposts #khaila wilcoxon #storm lever #natalie paris #olivia donalson #courtney mack #gabriela carrillo

[lightleckrereins]

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

[duchessofostergotlands]

Jess what do you think of the apparent switch Cam is making, from ladies-in-waiting to "queen's companions" to attend events / possibly overseas visits?

I guess if we know who the six are (the article I read said there will be six, anyway) it's no different - just a name change really. At first I was thinking "sounds like a free +1 for a friend to attend things".

There probably won't be the same hierarchy so for example the Queen had the Mistress of the Robes who was the most senior LiW. But nobody disliked the LiW role because some Ladies in Waiting were higher than others so who cares? lol. It's a group of largely aristocratic women who have been appointed as the Queen's companions without a transparent recruitment process and only receive reasonable expenses so therefore have to be wealthy enough to live without an income. That sounds pretty damn similar to a Lady in Waiting and any changes that have been made are all things nobody cared about. Yet again it's fairly offensive to me to act like we're all so stupid we would be impressed by a name change when nothing is done to address the material issue.

#ask #anon #british royal family #queen camilla

[arty-e]

I have finished the video!! I hope you all enjoy this ridiculous thing!

#my art #animatic #shitpost #video #robert dudley #elizabeth i #elizabeth tudor #barnaby fitzpatrick #henry fitzroy #jane dormer #ladies in wiaitng #six ladies in wiaitng #six #six the musical #six the kids #six liw #this is so silly #i hope you all enjoy #also the real historical dudley is very interesting and isn't just a simp!

[stanallthesixcastsorelse]

The Queens: Who needs therapy when we have you guys?

Ladies in Waiting: We’re just as fucked up as you are. It’s like the blind leading the blind

#they all have ✨ trauma ✨ #six the musical #six incorrect quote #ladies in waiting #source: sex and the city #mine #six #incorrect six the musical quotes #six the musical incorrect quote #six liw #six ladies in waiting

[boleyn-falcon]

Have I ever mentioned how much I love them???

BECAUSE I DO

#six #six musical #six the musical #joan meutas #joan on the keys #arlene mcnaught #bessie blount #bessie on the bass #terri de marco #maggie lee #maggie on the guitar #amy shaw #I FUCKING L O V E H E R #maria de salinas #maria on the drums #alice angliss #liw #ladies in waiting #six ladies in waiting #six liw