#Esme Rothero

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

Six the Musical Alphabet

K is for -> Katherine Howard

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

I’m praying that we’ll get to see the silver Boleyn skirt again but I have strong doubts.

[sixthemusicalextras]

@/maddycaswellxx and @/esmerothero on Instagram, 12 December 2024

[nifflering]

Six the musical costumes save me

Save me

some examples

[live-in-consort]

GUYS I WAS JOKING WTF

[janedances]

SIX PLEASE NEVER CHANGE

[but-im-unbreakable]

in honour of the festive season six west end should have a show with nikki aragon meg boleyn kayleigh seymour esme cleves shakira howard and harriet parr

call it silver and gold

[six-another-timeline]

esme is going to trieste too??!?!

[unwrittenemmy]

What roles I think the WE alts will be playing when they inevitably return:

Rachel: Seymour

Esme: Parr

Monique: Cleves

Danielle: Howard

Leah: Parr

[six-costume-refs]

Is Esme the only silver alt to have the Boleyn skirt variation?

Yes! I talked about some of the likely reasons for that here.

[justarandomsixfan]

GUESS WHO JUST GOT TICKETS TO ESME'S E/C HOWARD IN PTERBOROUGH!!??

(This kinda shite NEVER appens to me!!!!!)

[dontbebittah]

The History of Swingo, Part 7: The New Era

(Esme Rothero performing as Jane Seymour on the West End. Photographed by @sixbyamelia on Instagram.)

(tie 10) Esme Rothero was one of two swings cast in the 2021-22 West End production, and both she and fellow swing Rachel continued on with the 22-23 production as well. Esme was the first to wear the silver swing costume, with the base split skirt as well as the pants and Cleves variations. She is also the only silver swing to date to get a Boleyn skirt variation, which she received towards the beginning of her second contract. Esme and Rachel actually both achieved Swingo on the same day, Esme as Cleves and Rachel as Howard, in the first ever Double Swingo performance. Esme is currently performing as a swing in the UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Days to complete Swingo: 120

Date completed: March 17th, 2022

Performance stats:

Fun Fact: Esme and Rachel swapped the role of dance captain in between productions, with Esme originally having the role with West End 3.0 and Rachel taking it over for West End 4.0.

(Rachel Rawlinson performing as Catherine of Aragon at West End Live. Photographed by @bekisphotos on Instagram.)

(tie 10) Rachel Rawlinson was the second swing in the 21-22 and 22-23 West End productions, plus a short extension with the 23-25 cast. She wore the black alt costume with the Howard skirt, pants, Cleves, and Seymour skirt variations. For unscheduled performances, Rachel was the priority cover for Aragon, Seymour, and Cleves while Esme was the priority for the other three roles; these are also the roles each performer learned first. Rachel was also the standby performer for the West End Reunion performances, although she did not need to perform. Rachel can currently be seen in Singin’ in the Rain.

Days to complete Swingo: 118 (single production: 85, WE 4.0)

Date completed: March 17th 2022

Performance stats:

Fun Fact: Rachel performed on the West End as a child in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins.

(Danielle Rose as Anne Boleyn on the West End. Photographed by @daynaransleyphoto on Instagram.)

(14) Danielle Rose was the only alternate in the West End 2021-22 cast to complete Swingo. Her first covers were Boleyn and Howard, and she wore the orange alt costume for her second and third covers. She played the same role in the 22-23 West End production, although her second and third covers changed from A/C and S/P to A/S and C/P in her second contract. She also briefly joined the 2023-25 cast as alternate B/S/H, although she didn’t end up performing as Boleyn. Outside of Six, Danielle was seen most recently in Ushers: The Front of House Musical.

Days to complete Swingo: 322

Date completed: October 8th, 2022

Performance stats:

Fun Fact: Despite Seymour and Parr initially being her 3rd covers, Danielle ended up performing those roles more than her second covers (Aragon and Cleves). Danielle’s final show with the West End 5.0 cast was as Seymour, although it was one of her first covers at the time.

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

Triple silver skirts in the West End is actually insane, my god. 💀

[sixthemusicalextras]

@/esmerothero on Instagram, 8 December 2024

[lightleckrereins]

so shakira's boot pattern is way different to esme and harriet's, but esme recently got her boots re-done so why did they give her the old pattern for it to be discontinued in a couple weeks time?

The boots changing quickly isn't new. Right when they started doing the custom rhinestoned boots pretty much every pair had different rhinestone colors, and from one company to the next the design could get both very subtle changes and complete redesigns. Also not all changes have been immediate. Think of Parr, it had the wide lines design for a couple of years before switching to diamonds and boleyn only recently switched to bigger squares in the UK. While howard switched from diagonals to diamonds in the second or third pair.

So Shakira getting a new pattern now shortly after Esme got the old one might just be the costume team decidint to try something new while actively working on the tour cast change. As for Esme it could be that they didn't decide on the change until after her boots were made, or that they decided to have a longer time to plan the new design, or that they just wanted continuity on Esme's look.

Also I really like the new design. Makes it more obvious that the silver crosses are the main feature instead of the black divider squares.

[live-in-consort]

still thinking about how Six could’ve fixed the double identical silver alt costume situation by simply switching esme to boleyn and meg to seymour so esme could wear her custom boleyn skirt