#six west end

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

STOP I WAS LITERALLY JUST WATCHING THE OWC REUNION MEGASIXES WONDERING WHEN THE PROSHOT WAS COMING I-

FINALLY!!!!

[dontloseyourheadinmycandystore]

[altarwaiting]

'Cause we're so much more than...

[janedances]

Thoughts on Six WE reusing costumes?

lol let me get this straight.

we were SO ANGRY when it was reported that there were no alt costumes. we were attacking everyone involved and spamming our instagram stories. however, we get alt costumes, and now we’re angry that they’re being reused? are we just gonna sit here and complain? do you 14 year olds want jobs at six now? because clearly you appear to know better than people who have professionally trained in marketing and have years of experience of marketing shows?

[six-costume-refs]

Hey, have there ever been any orange alts for K. Howard? I tried searching the blog, but it's a struggle on mobile lol

Several actors have gone on for Howard in an orange alt costume, but none have had a Howard variation.

L-R: Courtney Stapleton (courtneyjstapes), Hana Stewart (colletteguitart), Harriet Watson (harrietwatson92), Chiara Assetta (chiara_assetta)

Thank you for searching too - tumblr search does suck and I’ve been trying to figure out ways around that 😅 but difficult to do much to fix it

[thexwives]

not six having to send both Harriet AND Meg to Italy to help the UK/INT Tour on coverage 😭😭😭

[liumo-quack]

Little comic between the queens uwu

She angry

[lightleckrereins]

Have you heard the news? Apparently Hannah said on tiktok they are reusing old costumes. She is orange, Naomi is teal and Gabriella is silver because an existing pink doesn’t fit her and I guess they don’t want to go look at the black ones :/

First of all so sorry for going MIA for two weeks in the middle of peak six chaos time. Life got crazy (read been drowning in work, working like crazy in cosplay for a contest and battling a bad cold all at once).

Second I'm throwing this all together because answers overlap.

For once I actually saw the bits of the live(s) everyone is talking about. The things we know for a fact are: current WE alts will wear alt costumes made for previous alts for their second covers, those costumes have been altered to fit them (to quote Hannah) properly, Hannah will wear orange, Naomi will wear teal and since there wasnt an alt costume that fit Gabriella well enough she will be wearing a silver swing costume.

Six has a very long history of reusing costumes (I really need to make part two of that post). And the reason is generally obvious: debuted earlier than expected, no time to make a new costume, only wearing it for a very short period of time, fits well enough to wear full time, etc. Giving new life to costumes that were worn for only a handful of times, are in great condition and fit is a really good reason. We have been saying alts wearing altered costumes was a possibility since cast change. And at one point things pointed to them having different ones as a sort of emergency backup (orange for Naomi and pink for Hannah).

It is a good plan.

As for what they are getting and why. All black costumes have been worn by queens that had only black and for long periods of time so those are likely all too broken down and retired. It is the same case for silver but those have a stronger construction and the way Hannah phrased it says they tried all alt costumes before considering silver. I don't think they aimed for having different colors for all of them since second covers are meant to be for emergencies only and in theory who goes on for what character could be moved around to avoid duplicates (we know there will be shows with duplicates because this is six but that is not the plan). So Gabriella could have ended up with teal/orange/pink its just that nothing fit well enough.

And why do I keep saying "fit well enough"? Because I think they are aiming for a post lockdown AUS situation. They got a great mix of Zara's costume being a perfect fit for Cristina, Chiara inheriting Ella's costumes and despite not wearing the pants outside of promos and tech the top and shorts were a great fit, and Madeline wearing a slightly altered version of Jen's teal costume. On all three cases there are small signs that the costumes weren't made for them but you need to look very closely at photos to notice which means it wasn't visible from the audience. And I think thats what will happen with the WE alts. Costume team would have gone through the full costume stock to find what fits best with some alteration. We will definitely look at every milimeter of those costumes to search for the alteration points. But the audience won't know someone has two holes of net less or a new waistband and thats what matters.

[live-in-consort]

GUYS I WAS JOKING WTF

[six-another-timeline]

all aragon show tonight at the vaudeville!

divorced... divorced... divorced... divorced... divorced... divorced... and tonight london they are LIIIIIVE

[thesquirrelqueer]

me trying to explain to my roommate the six uk alternate chaos

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

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

[sabeedraws]

She walks the endless corridors, for miles and miles she goes, She often catches cold, poor dear, it's drafty when it blows, And it's awfully, awfully awkward for the queen to blow her nose, With her head tucked underneath her arm  - with her head tucked underneath her arm - a 1943 folklore song

[sixcostumerefs]

Shoutout to 2022-23 UK Tour for being the first cast of Six to have every alt eventually emergency cover in a different production 😭😭😭

[janedances]

try telling someone in 2020 that this would be a thing

[six-costume-refs]

You’ve probably gotten a few asks about this (if so PLEASE disregard haha), but my eyes aren’t deceiving me, right? That’s def Nat and Meg’s dressing room with a full Silver Cleves costume, right? I’m guessing it’s either Esme’s (worn 19 times) or Harriet’s (worn 8 times) old one but re-altered based on the fact the fact the three alternates are also getting re-altered costumes as well. Hoping there’s a pair of peplum-clad trousers in there as well, but hey I’ll be happy with whatever we get haha

You’re correct!! They’re Harriet’s, she has a different mesh than Esme. I posted more about that here and the chance that it may or may not be for Meg.

If they are altering costume pieces for Meg, I will note that it’s less likely we see Parr pants/peplum. The pants are relatively easy to alter, but peplums are more limited. It might be possible that she gets altered pants/other variations and a new peplum, though.