#Grace mouat

[cassidysanne]

EVERY JULIET IN & JULIET WEST END

"I believed there was something hanging in the stars but if this is it, then I've got say, the stars are full of shit."

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[live-in-consort]

OG West End and Broadway dance captains finally meeting up I could cry

[mttztrading]

She's the queen of beasts, she can smell your fear. In this biosphere, she's the apex predator.

Mean Girls - West End: Act 1

[meangirlsbway]

THE MAKEUP??? THE HAIRCLIPS??? this look is so adorable !!!

[crossedwithblue]

Mean Girls on West End

It's very fun, but ever so slightly lacklustre (I know I'm not the first person to say that about this musical but eh whatever).

IDK how thought-through casting Gretchen and Karen as WOC while Regina and Cady are white are, but it worked for me! Added an interesting layer to the dynamics, especially with Gretchen. 'What's Wrong With Me?', I've seen palyed for laughs, but this production made it absolutely heartbreaking and she very much made her natural hair a part of it with 'my body, my face, my hair'. BABY.

Pretty sad that they cut the Plastics medley verse in Meet the Plastics - it's such a brilliant little piece of songwriting and I absolutely love it as a trope in musicals :( Also, they cut the whole of Fearless, Do This Thing and the first Stupid with Love (OK I guess :/) but also Stop! Criminal. Damian was an absolute scene-stealer and deserved to have that kept in. I guess they wanted to make the second half shorter but c'mon!

Finally, Janice was brilliant and adorable. They did a good job of making her look truly an outsider and a weird little lesbian with a mullet and a giant T-shirt and funky awkward dance moves. It worked a lot better than the objectively stunning and graceful Auli'i Cravalho, in my opinion. Like yeah, don't tone down the reasons why she's bullied and celebrate her being herself anyway!

[six-costume-refs]

Is Harriet Watson the only actress to cover all 6 queens in the exact same costume? I don’t think she had any variations?

A few others also reached swingo with just one costume variation:

Grace Mouat (only during the UK Tour), Courtney Stapleton, Collette Guitart (eventually got variations but originally debuted all six queens with her original skirt), Harriet Watson

Quite a number of other queens also only had one variation but didn’t wind up debuting all the queens.

[dontbebittah]

The History of Swingo, Part 1: The Original

(Grace Mouat performing on the West End as Katherine Howard, photographed by @anniek_with_a_camera on Instagram.)

(1) Grace Mouat: the woman, the myth, the legend. Grace was the ONLY alternate/swing for the original (pre-West End) UK tour and was the first to wear the black alt costume. She debuted all 6 roles in just over a month, beginning with Aragon on 7/19/18 and finishing with Boleyn on 8/21/18. She then transferred with the principal cast to the West End, where she was joined by two more alternates: Courtney Stapleton and Vicki Manser (who will be covered in the next installment). Grace was originally first cover S/H, but swapped a cover with Courtney after a few months to A/H instead, with second covers B/S and third C/P. Unlike the other two original West End alts, Grace did not perform as all six queens on the West End; she never went on for Parr. Since Six, Grace's career has skyrocketed— she understudied Juliet in & Juliet, played Pilar in Legally Blonde, starred as Ella in Cinderella, and is currently performing as Karen in Mean Girls. And those are just the highlights! 

Days to complete Swingo: 34 (record for fastest Swingo overall)

Date completed: August 21st, 2018

Performance stats:

Fun Fact: Grace is the only person to have worn the pre-West End black alt costume, and is one of only two (with Mallory Maedke) to wear the updated miniskirt version.

[thewhizzyhead]

I have not been in the audio/bootleg trading/getting scene in a long fucking while but let it be known that I would trade my soul for a video of grace mouat's rendition of sexy now that she's gonna join the mean girls west end cast as karen

[likeateacup]

IM A SEXY MOUSE!

Grace Mouat as Karen in Mean Girls!

If you aren’t aware I fell in love with Mean Girls the musical on first preview and have been wanting to draw something ever since!

Big love to @mttztrading for filming this so beautifully so I could have a good reference for this costume

[thetisming]

Jordan Luke Gage + kisses

[sprnklersplashes]

grace mouat as karen in mean girls west end is such 2020 theatre twitter casting and I love it so much

[unwrittenemmy]

grace and elèna i fear the world isn’t prepared

[general-tallycraven]

The SIX to Pretty Woman pipeline is as strong as the SIX to &Juliet pipeline

[mttztrading]

I'd rather be me than be with you!

Mean Girls - West End: Act 2

[meangirlsbway]

GRACE MOUAT KAREN????

[six-costume-refs]

Time for n00b question #2! (If you remember my first one was about putins like six months ago)

What is, exactly, a half-up half-down hairstyle? Is it like just a bit of the hair styled and the rest left loose? Or is there something else I'm not understanding? And which queens is it associated with?

Thank you for putting up with me being an idiot

Hey! No worries about noob questions - I know it’s cliche but there really are no stupid questions. It's actually more helpful when anyone asks questions that they might feel are simple or basic, because it makes sure that I answer that for you and anyone else who might be wondering + gives me a better frame of reference for what I may need to explain more in the future!

A half-up, half-down style in the most literal sense just means that a section of the hair is styled “up”, either pulled back or in some sort of updo, while the rest of the hair is left “down,” aka usually loose. You also might hear it called a “half updo” - same thing, basic concept of some of the hair is “up” and some is “down.” Same thing. In the most classic sense, it often is referring to a longer hairstyle with the hair most left down with a section on either side of the face pulled back in some way. But, again, it can describe a lot. Here's a good article with some different examples, and here’s another.

As it pertains to Six, specifically: - It describes most Aragon hairstyles, because in most the hair is left loose while sections near the front are pulled back in varying styles (I typically just describe these as a "bob" because I feel like the length is one of the most significant/identifying details that set Aragon wigs apart) - It also describes most Boleyn hairstyles, because most of the hair is down/loose while some is up in the spacebuns (like with Aragon, I usually don't refer to this as half-up either because I find the spacebuns to be the most iconic part of the look even though it is technically half-up) - It describes all but one Seymour style. To me, Seymour styles are also the most quintessential half-up style - the majority of the hair left loose and rather long, with varying forms of the sides/top pulled back. And unlike Aragon and Boleyn, I don't feel like there's any other more definable feature of the typical style (bob/spacebuns respectively), so this is my go-to term for Seymour styles.

Here's a few examples of Aragon, Boleyn, and Seymour styles that fit the half-up half-down label:

And here are a few A/B/S styles that AREN’T half-up half-down (not comprehensive):

While a half-up hairstyle isn't standard for Cleves, Howard, or Parr, a few of those queens have had them at different points as well:

Cleves: Grace Mouat had a few different half-up styles for Cleves, including one that was a teased bouffant style (pictured). Jennifer Caldwell originally wore her hair with the front/top sections pulled back to the sides, more similar to Aragon bobs.

Howard: For a while there were some Howards with a half-up style. It was meant to look like a regular pony, but it generally left the back half of the style loose. It was most commonly used for queens who had shorter hair/too many layers for their hair to be put totally up, back when Six didn't make a ponytail for everyone. There's actually been six queens with this style, which I talked about here.

Parr: Grace Mouat and Jennifer Caldwell both wore their hair pulled back in a crown, similar to their Cleves styles (part of the time anyway; Jennifer's is pictured here). Gabriela Francesca Carrillo has had a variety of hairstyles as Parr, but her earlier styles often featured some of the hair pulled “up” into braids/ponytails along with some sections hanging “down”/loose (post here). And Taylor Iman Jones has a version of the iconic Parr side pony (the “up”) but has some hair left loose in the back as well. (post here)

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