#six breakaway 5.0

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@/gabulousworldwide and @/abbihodgson on Instagram, 2 August 2023

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The Six chaos never ends

15 Mar 2023, @/gabulousworldwide

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Why do you think the new Breakaway cast hasn’t been allowed to post their costumes yet? I also saw a mic post on someone’s story that showed a teal one in the style of the main six? What do you think this is for?

It takes a day or two for just about every NCL cast to be allowed to post. Some of that is going to be due to them just not having wi-fi every day, but there have been plenty of times where they’ve had access to wi-fi and been posting about opening night/debut both the night of and the day after (sometimes posting/re-posting blurred or onstage photos) and still no photos. Then a few days later half of them will suddenly all post the photos at once. There seems to still be some form of approval process that photos and/or costumes still have to go through before they can be posted, even though these casts don’t have a photo ban since we’ve sometimes seen before.

The alts are the same: they basically always wait a day or two to share any photos. The other queens will wait as well. Sometimes they’ll all be posting “congratulations on your xyz debut” but again, oftentimes with no photos or only very blurred audience ones. Sometimes the alts will also post some sort of “sneak peak” of their costume, often with a comment about how they’ll “post more when they can.” And the second the alts post the photo, the rest of the principals will often post theirs as well.

It’s all just way too coordinated for there to not be some level of approval that most, if not all, alts/costumes/casts have to go through. It is worth noting that all costumes always do have to get approved at some point, for any cast/production. But with US Tours/Broadway that always happens significantly earlier, during tech or previews if not earlier. With NCL it seems to be that they don’t get a final sign off until later, maybe until tech or opening night for some shows (they also have a much shorter tech period than mainland shows). That might have to do with accessibility for fittings during rehearsals: the mainland actors rehearse in New York, where the costume team is located as well. But NCL holds rehearsals in Florida and they don’t usually go back to NYC for fittings during that, even thought the costumes are still in progress. Some actors do initial fittings in New York prior to the rehearsals starting and some do some of their fittings in Florida, but the specifics of all that isn’t particularly clear. And even once they board the ship, they may still not be able to get final approval during tech for any number of reasons (again it’s very short which may factor in). My guess would be that NCL casts just don’t get to do their final approval stages until they’re actually on the ship and at least teching/maybe initial debut, and that’s why we often have some level of delay.

And yeah, Sasha Renae Brown posted this photo of mics:

Yes, there’s a teal. No, we’re not going to see alt costumes. All the mics are labeled with the names of who is supposed to use them: Aragon, Boleyn, etc. If that was dependent on just principal or just alt, we’d see the names of specific actors like you can see on the line above! They’ve done the same thing for past Breakaway (and Bliss) casts in the principal costumes. This is most likely a backup mic. If an actor’s handheld fails during the show, they have one on easy backup that can be grabbed sidestage. It’s likely Elizabeth Walker’s old one from 1.0 that they kept for that purpose; Liv Alexander’s was used as a backup before but has since been repurposed.

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NEW BREAKAWAY CAST!!! PULLING OUT A WHOLE BUNCH OF REHEARSAL ALTS, BRINGING BACK GABBI MACK AND SASHA BROWN, AND BRINGING BACK MEGAN LEUNG!!!!!

Its like the dream returning cruise cast!

I am seriously VERY excited for this one!! All I've seen from Gabbi and Sasha is great and they are at the very top of my "want to see given a land promo list". And ifyou had asked me yesterday who I wanted to see return from the cruise productions I would have said Sunayna Smith and Megan Leung without thinking. And I can't explain how much I love seeing rehearsal alts joining and onboard cast. Also love the whole alts combo. So this feels very specifically catered to me.

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SIX BREAKAWAY 5.0 CAST!

Retun central, literally.

Gabbi Mack returning as ARAGON (previously played the role in Bliss 4.0)

Sunayna Smith returning as BOLEYN (previously was a rehearsal swing for A/B/H in Breakaway 3.0)

Hannah Taylor returning as SEYMOUR (previously was a rehearsal swing for B/S/C in Bliss 4.0)

Sasha Renae Brown returning as CLEVES (previously played the role in Bliss 4.0)

Sarah McFarlane returning as HOWARD (previously was a rehearsal swing for S/H/P in Breakaway 4.0)

Megan Leung returning as PARR (previously played the role in Bliss 2.0)

Completing the cast are our 4 swings!

Abbi Hodgson returning as ONBOARD SWING A/C/P (previously played A/B/C in Bliss 2.0 and Breakaway 2.0)

Eden Holmes as ONBOARD SWING B/S/H

Kate Zulauf as a rehearsal swing for B/S/H

Jaelle Laguerre as a rehearsal swing for A/C/P

FUN FACTS:

Principals are made up entirely of returning queens

Gabbi and Sasha actually got the offer 3 days before Bliss 4.0 closing due to their social media presence.

The only casts that aren’t included are Bliss 1.0, Breakaway 1.0, Bliss 3.0 and Bliss 5.0!

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Abbi!Parr and yet another Parr hairstyle

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From what we know so far!

Credit to @sixthemusicalextras for the template!

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Day one hundred and twenty-nine of posting every six queen

DAY ONE TWENTY-NINE - SUNAYNA SMITH - ANNE BOLEYN

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where you might recognize the new breakaway 5.0 cast from!

Gabbi Mack (Aragon): Bliss 4.0 Aragon

Sunayna Smith (Boleyn): Breakaway 3.0 Rehearsal A/B/H

Hannah Taylor (Seymour): Bliss 4.0 Rehearsal B/S/C

Sasha Renae Brown (Cleves): Bliss 4.0 Cleves

Sarah McFarlane (Howard): Breakaway 4.0 Rehearsal S/H/P

Megan Leung (Parr): Bliss 2.0 Parr

Abbi Hodgson (Swing): Bliss 2.0/Breakaway 2.0 A/B/C

Eden Holmes (Swing), Jaelle Laguerre & Kate Zulauf (Rehearsal Swings) are the only new queens!

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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

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Slelext your answers( I couldn’t add Breakaway 6.0)

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@/abbihodgson on Instagram, 2 May 2023

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Happy Asian and Pacific Islander Month to our queens!

Here in the US, May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander month. So just like last year, I'll be highlighting the Asian and Pacific Islander queens of Six. This year is especially fun as there's currently an Asian or Pacific Islander queen in every currently-running replica production of Six!

Pictured: Aragon: Grace Mouat (Burmese, 1st UK Tour and West End), Nicole Kyoung-mi Lambert (Korean, pre-Broadway regional tour and Broadway); Jasmine Shen (Chinese/Hong Konger, Breakaway 1.0); Chloé Zuel (Mauritian, 2020 Sydney); Phoenix Jackson Mendoza (Filipino, 2021-23 Aus Tour); Kristina Leopold (Chinese/Thai/Indian, Broadway/Boleyn Tour); 이아름솔/Lee Arum-soul (Korean, South Korea); 손승연/Sonnet (Korean, South Korea) Boleyn: Andrea Macasaet (Filipino, pre-Broadway regional tour and Broadway); Cherelle Jay (West End and 2nd UK Tour); Amanda Lindgren (South Korean, West End); Sunayna Smith (Indian, Breakaway 3.0 and 5.0); 김지우/Kim Ji-woo (Korean, South Korea); 배수정/Pae Su-jeong (Korean, South Korea); Fiorella Bamba (Filipino, Bliss 6.0); Thảo Therése Nguyễn (Vietnamese, West End) Seymour: Jasmine Forsberg (Filipino, Aragon Tour/Broadway); 박혜나/Park Hye-na (Korean, South Korea); 박가람 /Park Ga-ram (Korean, South Korea); Singh Viki (Indian, Hungarian non-replica) Cleves: 김지선/Kim Ji-sun (Korean, South Korea); 최현선/Choi Hyun-sun (Korean, South Korea); Danielle Mendoza (Filipino, Breakaway 3.0/Boleyn Tour); Kardffy Aisha (Persian, Hungarian non-replica) Howard: Jaina Brock-Patel (Desi/Indian, 2nd UK Tour); Zoe Jensen (Filipino, Broadway); 김려원/Kim Ryeo-won (Korean, South Korea); 솔지/Solji (Korean, South Korea); Elysia Cruz (Filipino, Canadian); Hien (Vietnamese, Hungarian non-replica); Sierra Fermin (Filipino, Broadway); Alizé Ke'Aloha Cruz (Filipina, Bliss 3.0/Boleyn Tour) Parr: Shimali de Silva (Hong Konger/Sri Lankan, original student cast); Vidya Makan (Desi/Indian heritage, 2020 and 2021-23 Australian Tours); Shannen Alyce Quan (Eurasian, 2020 and 2021-23 Australian Tours); Karis Oka (2020 and 2021-23 Australian Tours); Megan Leung (Chinese/Hong Konger, Bliss 2.0 and Breakaway 5.0); Roxanne Couch (Maori, West End); Joy N Woods (Southeast Asian and/or Pacific Islander, Broadway); Elena Breschi (Filipino, Breakaway 4.0) 유주혜/Yoo Ju-hye (Korean, South Korea); 홍지희/Hong Ji-hee (Korean, South Korea); Aoife Haakenson (Taiwanese, UK Tour); Lauren Mariaoosay (Indian/Polynesian/Malaysian/Cambodian, Canada) Notes: - All information is from this post. There may be additional info or queens missing, as it's only information I specifically have been able to verify. This list also doesn't encompass the full breadth of many queens' identities; many of them are of mixed race and ethnicity, or of several nationalities. That post provides further information. - I usually don't include actors who haven't debuted. That means that Kimberley Hodgson and Deirdre Khoo (both of the recently-announced Australian Tour) and Fia Houston-Hamilton (cancelled Breakaway 2.0) are not included.

Credits: Aragon: anniekwithacamera; Lloyd Bishop; _jasmine_shen_; jamesmorganphoto; sixthemusicalau, unsure of origin; ymduck_pic; _young_img Boleyn: Sara Crulwich; jonalderson_; Pamela Raith; sunaynasmith; _young_img; _shannon1025_, unsure of origin; fiorellabamba; Pamela Raith Seymour: Joan Marcus; hbiiii._.iin; jjang_beautiful; Szabina Jardek Cleves: hbiiii._.iin; gren_pic; Joan Marcus; Szabina Jardek Howard: Pamela Raith, Joan Marcus, day_star_._, 890110kr; Joan Marcus; Szabina Jardek; sierrafermin; Joan Marcus Parr: sixthemusical, unsure of origin; sixthemusicalau, unsure of origin; daynaransleyphoto; daynaransleyphoto; meganswleung; Pamela Raith; michaelah.jpg; elenabreschi; yoozuyoozu, unsure of origin; jjang_beautiful; Pamela Raith; Joan Marcus

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Do you think Abbi will get a Parr wig similar to the style Roxanne and US Tour alternates have recently gotten or a more classic side pony?

No idea! I’d love it if she did, but NCL is just such a toss up with Parr styles in particular. I mean, here’s the last few Parr alts:

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The Six the musical 2022 covers - alternates, swings, rehearsal swings and emergency covers

A post that has been in the making for seven months or three years if you count everything that has carried over from the first version. And note: (almost) everyone is listed with the first company they covered in.

West End

Rachel Rawlinson: Swing, West End, joined November 2021 covering all six queens.

Esme Rothero: Swing, West End, joined November 2021 covering all six queens.

Paisley Billings: Alternate, West End; Joined November 2021 as alternate Aragon/Cleves, left October 2022.

Danielle Rose: Alternate, West End; Joined November 2021 as alternate Boleyn/Howard.

Roxanne Couch: Alternate, West End; Joined November 2021 as alternate Seymour/Parr, Became principal Parr in October 2022.

Courtney Bowman: Principal Boleyn, West End; joined October 2019, left November 2021. Emergency cover West End; returned March 2022 for one show.

Casey Al-Shaqsy: Principal Seymour, UK tour; joined March 2022. Emergency cover, West End; joined the cast for three shows in June 2022.

Monique Ashe-Palmer: Alternate, West End; Joined October 2022 as alternate Aragon/Cleves.

Leah Vassell: Alternate, West End; Joined October 2022 as alternate Seymour/Parr.

UK tour

Cassandra Lee: Alternate, UK tour; alternate Aragon/Cleves, left March 2022.

Jennifer Caldwell: Alternate, UK tour; alternate Boleyn/Howard; became principal Boleyn in March 2022. Swing, West End; joined the cast temporarily in January 2020. Emergency cover, West End; joined the cast as Boleyn for three shows in June 2022.

Harriet Watson: Alternate, UK tour; alternate Seymour/Parr, left March 2022. Standby, UK productions; came back as standby alternate for both WE and UKT throughout 2022.

Natalie Pilkington: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 1.0; alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr, also covered Seymour. Swing, alternate, UK tour, joined June 2021 as swing, became alternate Seymour/Parr March 2022. Emergency cover, West End; joined the cast as alternate for a few shows in June 2022.

Cherelle Jay: Alternate, West End; joined October 2019 as alternate Boleyn/Cleves, was announced to be principal Cleves in the cancelled drive-in tour, left November 2021. Alternate, UK tour; joined temporarily in February 2022.

Harriet Caplan-Dean: Swing, UK tour; joined March 2022.

Grace Melville: Alternate, UK tour; joined March 2022 as alternate Aragon/Cleves; acted as temporary replacement Cleves between March and May 2022. Emergency cover, West End; covered Cleves for one show in July 2022.

Leesa Tulley: Alternate, UK tour; joined March 2022 as alternate Boleyn/Howard; acted as temporary replacement Howard between August and October 2022.

Elèna Gyasi: Principal Parr, UK tour; joined the cast at reopening in June 2021, left March 2022. Emergency cover, UK tour; returned as an emergency cover in July 2022.

Broadway

Mallory Maedke: Alternate, Chicago and North American tour; alternate Boleyn/Seymour/Howard, was temporary principal Seymour during the St. Paul run. Alternate, Broadway; covering Seymour/Parr (first cover) and Boleyn/Cleves/Howard in 2020, switched to Aragon/Seymour/Howard in 2021, left December 2022.

Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert: Alternate, Chicago and North American tour; alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr was temporary principal Cleves during the St. Paul run. Alternate, Broadway; covering Aragon/Cleves (first cover) and Boleyn/Seymour/Parr in 2020, switched to Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves in 2021, left December 2022; came back on standby late December 2022.

Courtney Mack: Joined as principal Howard in the North American tour; became alternate Boleyn/Howard and later Boleyn/Seymour/Howard. Alternate, Broadway; covering Boleyn/Howard (first cover) and Aragon/Seymour/Parr in 2020, switched to Boleyn/Howard/Parr in 2021, left December 2022.

Keirsten Hodgens: Alternate, Broadway; Joined September 2021, covering Seymour/Cleves/Parr. Emergency cover, Aragon tour, covered Cleves for two performances in March 2022. Left December 2022.

Hanna Stewart: Alternate, West End; joined October 2019 as alternate Seymour/Parr, left November 2021. Alternate, Broadway; joined March 2022 as alternate Aragon/Seymour/Parr, left April 2022

Keri René Fuller: Principal Seymour, Broadway; was a temporary replacement between March and May 2022, rejoined as principal in August 2022, left December 2022. Alternate, Broadway; was listed as alternate for a week after her first principal run, likely as a Seymour standby.

Ayla Ciccone-Burton: Alternate, Broadway; Joined August 2022, covering Boleyn/Cleves/Parr.

Holli’ Conway: Alternate, Broadway; Joined August 2022, originally said to be covering Aragon/Howard/Parr, switched to Aragon/Cleves/Howard shortly after.

Aubrey Matalon: Alternate, Broadway; Joined December 2022, covering Boleyn/Seymour/Howard.

Kristina Leopold: Alternate, Broadway; Joined December 2022, covering Aragon/Seymour/Parr.

Keri Fuller*: (not pictured) Principal Seymour, Broadway; Did two runs as principal Seymour between March and May, and August and December 2022; after her first run was listed as alternate on the playbill for a week.

Aragon US tour

Kelly Denice Taylor: Alternate, Aragon North American Tour; alternate Aragon/Seymour/Cleves. Standby, Broadway; became standby for broadway starting June 2022 with the same covers while still being alternate in the tour company.

Cassie Silva: Alternate Broadway, joined January 2022 as alternate Howard, left March 2022. Alternate, Aragon North American Tour; alternate Boleyn/Cleves/Howard. Standby, Broadway; returned as a standby in July 2022 with her tour covers while still part of the tour company.

Kelsee Kimmel: Alternate, Aragon North American Tour; alternate Aragon/Seymour/Parr. Standby, Broadway; became standby for broadway starting September 2022 covering Seymour/Parr while still being alternate in the tour company.

Erin Palmer Ramirez: Alternate, Aragon North American Tour; alternate Boleyn/Howard/Parr.

Boleyn US tour

Cecilia Snow: Alternate, Boleyn north American tour; alternate A/S/C.

Aryn Bohannon: Alternate, Boleyn north American tour; alternate B/S/H. Standby, Aragon tour, temporarily joined the Aragon tour with her three covers.

Jana Larell Glover: Alternate, Boleyn north American tour; alternate A/C/P.

Taylor Pearlstein: Alternate, Boleyn north American tour; alternate B/H/P.

AUS

Karis Oka: Swing, Australia tour.

Shannen Alyce Quan: Swing, Australia tour.

Chiara Assetta: Swing, Australia tour; joined when the show reopened in December 2021

Cristina D’Agostino: Alternate swing, Australia tour; joined the company in June 2021 as resident choreographer, became alternate (emergency) swing in April 2022.

Norwegian Bliss

3.0

Marilyn Caserta: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 3.0; alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr. Alternate, Broadway; joined the Broadway cast for two weeks in August 2022 as emergency alternate Aragon. Universal alternate, US companies; Joined December 2022 as alternate for Broadway and both US tours, covering Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves/Parr.

Ashlee Waldbauer: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 3.0; alternate Boleyn/Seymour/Howard.

Alize Ke'Aloha Cruz: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 3.0; covering Boleyn/Seymour/Howard.

Kristina Walz: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 3.0; covering Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves.

Adrianna Glover: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 3.0; covering Aragon/Cleves/Parr.

4.0

Kayla McSorley: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 4.0; alternate Boleyn/Cleves/Parr.

Willow Dougherty: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 4.0; alternate Aragon/Seymour/Howard.

Emily Lyons: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 4.0; covering Aragon/Cleves/Parr.

Chelsea Wargo: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 4.0; covering Boleyn /Seymour/Howard.

HannahTaylor: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 4.0; covering Boleyn/Seymour/Cleves.

Gabbi Mack: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 4.0; covering Aragon/Cleves/Parr, was promoted to principal Aragon early during rehearsals.

5.0

Bethany McDonald: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 5.0; alternate Seymour/Cleves/Parr.

Jillian Worthing: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 5.0; alternate Aragon/Boleyn/Howard.

Haley Izurieta: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 5.0; covering Boleyn/Cleves.

Lois Ellise: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 5.0; covering Aragon/Seymour/Parr.

Jasmine M. Smith: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 5.0; covering Seymour/Parr.

Alyssa Giannetti: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Bliss 5.0; covering Aragon/Seymour/Howard

Norwegian Breakaway

2.0

Abbi Hodgson: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 2.0; alternate Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves; did not debut before the production was cancelled because of lockdown. Alternate, Norwegian Breakaway 2.0, came back with the same covers as before.

Ellie Sharpe: Alternate, Norwegian Breakaway 2.0; alternate Seymour/Howard/Parr. Was previously cast in one of the unnanounced 2020 cruise casts. Alternate, Norwegian Breakaway 4.0; returned as alternate S/H/P.

Sadie Hurst: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Breakaway 2.0; was announced to be covering Boleyn/Seymour/Cleves, changed to Boleyn/Seymour/Howard during rehearsals.

3.0

Channing Weir: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 3.0; alternate Boleyn/Cleves/Howard.

Madeline Fansler: Alternate, Norwegian Bliss 3.0; alternate Aragon/Seymour/Parr. Swing, Australia tour; joined the Australian cast for September 2022 as a temporary swing and later as a full time swing starting December 2022.

Princess Victomé: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Breakaway 3.0; covering Seymour/Cleves/Parr. Alternate, Norwegian Breakaway 4.0; came back changing her covers to Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves.

Sunayna Smith: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Breakaway 3.0; covering Aragon/Boleyn/Howard.

4.0

Sarah McFarlane: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Breakaway 3.0; covering Seymour/Howard/Parr.

Meg Dixon-Brasil: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Breakaway 3.0; covering Boleyn/Seymour/Howard.

Reca Oackley: Rehearsal swing Norwegian Breakaway 3.0; covering Aragon/Seymour/Cleves. Returned as principal Cleves for Bliss 5.0.

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february really saying ‘six chaos, but make it really random and unexpected’