#six the musical cast

[mighty-morphin-theatre-nerd]

Y'all!!!!

😭😭😭😭

Out FRIDAY!!!

#six the musical cast #six broadway #six broadway cast recording #six obcr #six the musical #six alternates

[sabeedraws]

visualized the late-night thought "what if they were blonde tho???"

honestly? anne looks a bit odd to me- but catherine? DAMN! I'm obsessed

#six #six the musical #six anne boleyn #six catherine of aragon #araleyn #aralyn #catalina #six fanart #fanart #digital art #musicals #musical fanart #six the musical fanart #six musical #six alternates #ish #i think a cast wish list inspired this haha

[altarwaiting]

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

#six #six musical #six broadway #six west end #sixedit #musicaledit #musicaltheatreedit #broadwayedit #theatreedit #flashing // #eye strain // #* #haven't giffed this show in a while and found this trailer I think it's the previous west end cast???

[redladydeath]

You know, for all the Six chaos we’ve had and will continue to have far into the future, it’s kind of a shame how we’ll never again reach the heights of absolute batshit insanity that was Toby Parrlow

#redlady speaks #six the musical #six chaos peaked early #toby parrlow could’ve only ever happened in summer 2019 #nowadays we have dozens of former cast memers a production can call upon in case of an emergency #no matter who they bring back it will never be as crazy as the time the amab non-actor/singer composer of the show had to cover parr

[wylanslcve]

The piano scene in S2E3 is somehow talked about SO MUCH but also not enough, and I know that doesn't make sense but hear me out. Wylan has been in the Barrel for how long with nothing from his life before, only the decency he stubbornly clings to (hence why he initially refused to make bombs for Kaz, but his desperation got the better of him) and, if we use the information from the books, his flute. And we know the significance of music in Wylan's identity: he used it to hide his disability by setting whatever was read aloud to him to a melody in his head; the music room was the only place in his father's house he was ever happy in; and, in Crooked Kingdom, he recalls sitting at the piano bench with his mother, and it's one of the few memories he has of her because she "died" when he was young, so of course his memory of her is going to be a bit foggy.

Music wasn't something he got so good at to win his father's approval the way science and maths were - music was always his. It's what makes him Wylan and not Jan Van Eck's son, and being in the Barrel has tried to separate him from that part of his identity. Yes, he plays his flute in S2E1, but he plays it out of desperation. How long has it been since he's played music because of how connected he is to it, not because he needs money? It's something he yearns to do, and so when he and Jesper break into Pekka's country estate, Wylan doesn't take his eyes off the piano when he notices it - not even while Jesper is talking to him. He yearns to feel the press of the piano keys beneath his fingers, for the comfort playing music always gave him, and I think this is beautifully signified in that frame where presses the broken piano key: he so desperately wants that comfort and security, but can't have it.

Even though it looks like he sits at the piano to encourage Alby to keep playing, it's more so because he couldn't pass up the opportunity to do what he's yearned to do for so long. It's only 30ish seconds, but he loses himself in the music he plays, in that security he's sought since he first arrived in the Barrel. He's reliving sitting at the piano bench with his mother, and a show headcanon I have is that this little piece of music was something Marya taught him or wrote for him or something he wrote for her. Either way, it's made him lose himself in those happy childhood memories of him playing the piano with her.

Then that momentary peace and comfort is snatched away from him as he snaps back to reality. He's not at his father's house playing piano with his mother: he's in the Barrel, wrapped up in the company of literal criminals, and his mother's been dead since he was eight (well, we know she isn't dead, but he doesn't). His guard goes back up, and he goes back to being Wylan Hendriks, the demolitions expert keeping a privileged past and childhood traumas close to his chest, the boy who was desperate enough to start playing criminal with a band of thugs and thieves.

(gif by me, scene credits go to @/autumnspacks on ig)

#i'll shut up now #i just needed to get this out there #i'm unwell #also jack absolutely nailed it #like the change in his expression??? #and the fact that he WROTE THE MUSIC WYLAN PLAYED??? #he loves wylan more than we do #wylan my beloved #six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season two #shadow and bone season three #six of crows spin off #soc spinoff #sab cast #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #jack wolfe #leigh bardugo #meta #wylan meta #sab meta

[izloveshorses]

Oh, we could make a good thing bad.

#anastasia broadway #anastasia musical #anastasia #my gifs #my edit #musicaledit #dimya #christy altomare #derek klena #djats #daisy jones & the six #daisy jones and the six #one day i'll use a cast besides the obc but today is not that day alshjdf #i've had this song stuck in my head since march tho so #i wanna make one with the river but i couldn't decide what lyrics to use?? #like that song feels more them to me idk #but this one hits too i think #idk maybe you'll see more of these later lol

[wizzard890]

One of my biggest pet peeves is when books or movies are like "what if it’s the past but with things like selfies and shutter shades and yas queen" and don't....have anything to say with that. I’m not talking about comedies, I’m talking about historical anachronisms that get deployed in dramas. 

Like, this is a stylistic choice, and thanks to things like Hamilton, it’s one that’s becoming more and more common, so I get all sorts of opportunities to think about why some examples are so shallow and annoying, and why others work so well. 

I think of it as the difference between Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette - an enormously sensitive and successful example! - and the Broadway musical Six, which is the poster child for “doing an anachronism to make the Notorious RBG crowd cheer”. 

In Six, Anne Boleyn is portrayed as a ditzy party girl who didn’t think anything could touch her until something manifestly did. She’s not into politics or long-term plots, she just wants to fuck around and have a good time. The creators cast her as a dumb popular chick in way over her head. 

Now, do I find that an enormously boring take on Anne Boleyn? Obviously. But the real question is why have they chosen these specific anachronisms? The phone, describing her letters with King Henry as “texting” and “replies”. It’s a sort of SNL take on history, lazily swapping courtier with influencer; her “lol”s and “sorry not sorry”s don’t bring you any closer to the emotional truth of her situation. 

(And before you say “but Six is a comedy!” it’s a: not really, and b: a musical that contains a harrowing song* about a woman’s experience of being sexually assaulted as a child, and then again at multiple points throughout her life**, so I do feel they had the range, had they chosen to reach for it.)

Dramatic anachronism, when employed well, gives us touch points to recognize. It renders a world that may feel alien as legible to a modern audience, who come in with their own associations and biases. And so the best anachronisms are specific.

“Wouldn’t it be kind of funny if Anne Boleyn was a party girl because she was a big deal in court and everyone had hard opinions on her?” That’s a sketch idea, not a thoughtful deployment of anachronism to deepen an audience’s understanding of what’s happening in front of them. 

Contrast with this famous shot from Sophia Coppola’s 2006 movie Marie Antoinette. 

Now, what is the point of those Chuck Taylors? What do they communicate to an audience, especially in the mid-aughts? What do they think of when they think of out of touch rich girls who spend all their time shopping and drinking and spoiling their little dogs and wearing pastel colored high tops? Oh right:

The movie is not asking: what if Anne Boleyn was sort of like a girl who shops at Revolve? It’s not even asking: what if Marie Antoinette was a girl like you, who probably owns high tops?

It’s asking, directly: what if Paris Hilton, someone you all already hate, with her baggage and inadequacy and shallowness and mean-spiritedness and humanity and probably genuine unhappiness -- what if she had an angry, starving, justified mob at her door, who blame her for something that is, in part, her fault. Would you feel sorry for her? I mean, people chase her around all the time in real life, and make her miserable, and she’s starving herself to death in front of us and everyone calls her a slut and an idiot. And maybe she, Paris Hilton, is an idiot. Anyway, focus on the screen: should this gluttonous, unprepared, wasteful, shallow Austrian woman be tormented unto her ultimate demise for being an idiot? 

That’s what successful, thoughtful anachronism does. It asks you to make connections between yourself and the past, your social impulses and the things that governed people long dead. It wants to help you recognize the ways that we are different and how in others we never change. 

It’s a powerful tool when employed directly, and I think it’s a huge bummer that writers rarely seem to understand that. 

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*All You Wanna Do is the only number in the show that actually works, because they use the tee-hee pop princess conceit to pull the rug out from under you and reveal something genuinely horrible.

**Six has a tone problem. 

#I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TAG THIS BUT OOOH IT GRINDS MY GEARS #the live cast album of six dropped a while ago and it's just the platonic example of poorly deployed anachronism #six the musical #marie antoinette 2006

[thewingedwolf]

i like six so much bc i like the rhymes in it. you have the pop sound but the rhythms and syncopation of theater and it’s crack for my ears lol.

So i picked up a pen and a microphooooone, history’s about to get overthrOWN

“Histor-emix” is genius fuck you

Put your hands up get this party buzzin’ you want a queen bee? well here’s half a doZENN (also the harmonies on that one)

You say it’s a pity cuz quoting Leviticus i’ll end up kidiless all my life!

Don’t be bittAh cuz i’m fittAh. He doesn’t want to bang you SOMEbody hang you!

My horses can trot up to twelve miles an hour, let me explain, I'm a Wienerschnitzel, not an English flower. No one tells me I need a rich man, doin’ my thing in my palace in rICHMOND.

“Please me, squeeze me, birds and the bees me,” just flowwwwws

that’s not my storyyyy there’s so much more reeeeemember that i was a writAh i wrote books and songs and meditations fought for female education.

Cause in hisTORY I’M fiXed. as. ONE OF sIX!

We’re one of a kind no category, spent too many years lost in HIStory

i am constantly singing random lines to my dog and he has had enough of me!!

#six the musical #rani makes text posts no one will read #i wish the broadway cast had done a studio recording too 😭😭😭😭 #bc listening to k howard get progressively more upset until she’s half wailing the lyrics. and then the kiss turning into a gasp of horror? #perfect i want that in the studio so you can’t hear her struggling to breathe around the choreography aksjdj #same for don’t lose your head. you can tell she’s running around that stage 😭😭 i want to hear it when she’s standing there akskdk

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

ENOUGH with the stuntcasting either hold an honest open audition or pick your next cast member via an insanely convoluted poorly produced reality tv show as god intended

#so so sick of celebrities getting parts they aren’t suited for Just Because #why can’t we have search for the next harold zidler instead . search for the next persephone #(though in all seriousness let’s be honest. if anyone is doing a reality show it’s either chicago or six) #I will say I’m at least glad that hades is pretty much immune to stuntcasting thanks to his vocal range #there simply aren’t very many people who sound like that. you can’t just cast aaron tviet as hades all willy nilly #sanders bullshit #musical theatre #actorposting

[sixcostumerefs]

when will Danigon return from the war.....

#@ six management please schedule one last show before cast change #danielle rose #six the musical #elisabeth has opinions

[lorillee]

lorillee??? drawing warrior cats in 2023????? its more likely than you think . also if you remember the dumbest po3 au you receive a veteran lorillee follower award

#warriors #heathertail #cinderheart #mothwing #hawkfrost #hollyleaf #leafpool #crowfeather #ivypool #dovewing #mistystar #lorillee.png #i guess 😭 #i disappear and come back onto my one piece blog with warrior cats. well thats just how it goes i guess #anyways to be very honest im drawing wc again bc cats are on the brain #since ive been listening to the original broadway cast recording of cats the musical #its actually so funny because my mom HATEDDDD it whenever my dad played it in the car #she said it gave her a headache bc the ensemble is really high pitched or something #but honestly i think it was probably because we would sing scream half the songs (in the car) #very annoyingly. because we were six very. very annoying children. #also for any of the warrior cats fans out there. which are none of you. listen to growltiger's last stand and tell me that would not make #an absolutely SLAY tigerstar map. youd have to tweak it obviously but ever since i was like. i dont know. 8 or something. i dreamed of it

[thexwives]

people calling ‘swingo’ when us/canada alts complete their 3/4 covers really bugs me for some reason

#am i the only one? #six the musical #six alternates #six cast #six chaos #six us tour #six boleyn tour #six aragon tour #six broadway #six canada

[ethereal-maia]

My design for Katherine Howard!!

shes just so 💗💞💗

#I just think it would be neat if they cast her like this #especially if they did the bangs and had more hair like this #anyway #shes my fave I can’t believe I’ve never posted any of my drawings of her yet!! #katherine howard #six the musical #maia can draw #six the musical fanart #my art

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

THE CASTING CHAOS JUST KEEPS ON COMING OML.

This makes me so happy though because Jana is such an underrated alt, well deserved for sure.

#six the musical #six broadway #six alternates #six boleyn tour #six chaos #jana larell glover #now I really hope I can make it to New York so that I can see this cast 😭 #the Aragon and Boleyn tour out here trading queens #is nobody auditioning for Six in the US or something? 😭 #this means she’ll be getting a new track too since there’s already 2 Aragon covers 👀

[redladydeath]

i feel like we don't appreciate just how influential andrea macasaet was on the role of boleyn. she pioneered so many little details (the "i'm not sorry!" riff, "don't be bittah cause i'm fittah," and so on) that have become standard for the role four years later and she deserves a lot of credit for that.

#redlady speaks #six the musical #honestly i think she took the crown from millie for the most influential boleyn #because while most of the other queens are still very in-line with the original WE/UKT1 interpretations #i think we see a lot more andrea-style boleyns being cast than millie-style boleyns nowadays

[janedances]

NATALIE PARIS AND COURTNEY MACK ARE THE BRAND NEW SEYMOUR AND HOWARD ON THE ARAGON TOUR WTF

#six the musical #six #six musical #i was expecting keri and brianna #you know recent queens #never in my wildest dreams did i expect natalie and courtney to appear in the same cast on a us tour #these casts be getting crazier and crazier #2019 let’s gooo #natalie paris #courtney mack #six aragon tour #jane seymour #katherine howard