#brittney mack

[katebeckets]

GET TO KNOW ME ✰ [6/10] Musicals ⤷ Six (2021)

"History's about to get overthrown."

[crowleybrekkers]

the queens of six: the musical

[limegreenmonkey]

SIX! 👑

[unbreakable-heart-of-stone]

💜💜

[allyouwxnnado]

so apparently we are getting a six broadway cast recording physical cd this friday?

[derekklenadaily]

NEWS: According to Broadway Records' twitter page, Derek was involved with 'The Big One - Oh!' Cast Recording! It involves Christian Borle, Patti Murin, Brittany Mack, Michael James Scott and more! You can now pre-save it on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and more! This cast recording will come out on Friday, January 27th!

[female-buckets]

LOOK AT THESE NERDS

THE NERDIEST FANGIRLS TO EVER GO ON STAGE WITH MEG 😭

Meg, please come to a game! I know they are being geeky millennials here but I promise they are hotties on the basketball court! I promise they know how to dance! They just forgot how for a moment

[pbnbucks]

its the whole phoenix team like do you want to fuck or not ?

[krokodile]

good news, past self currently looking through older likes <3  

i loved every single OG queen with all my heart, but mallory...she was something else again.

video belongs to @/nycbway101 on tik tok

I FOUND IT!!! I FOUND THE MAL HOWARD MEGASIX

[dianastaurasi]

[the-physicality]

don't mind me, blocks week is over and nary a mention of the mercury occurred, despite being one of three teams with two people in the top 10 for blocks.

natasha mack goes unmentioned because she's making league minimum and isn't seen as a *star*, despite having a massive ceiling, filling in for BG for the first part of the season, and having a massive defensive impact, with more blocks per 40 than anyone besides cam brink, and playing far fewer minutes than anyone in the top 10 for blocks [and has a very high shooting percentage]

celeste taylor unmentioned because she switched teams so many times i guess the league doesn't want to show how that's allowed, even though she is a fan favorite [by fans of every team she played for]. despite having SEVERAL picture perfect blocks, one of which [vs sabrina] there is no video footage of, on account of shitty broadcasting techniques

diana taurasi unmentioned despite having 20% of her blocks being absolute show stoppers. once because the league doesn't want to "show profanity," despite it being the most entertaining block of the season, and once because [again] of shitty broadcasting techniques [cable camera] in probably one of the most cinematic block sequences out there [dijonai blocking her shot to dt blocking dijonai in the span of SECONDS]

and of course, brittney griner going unrecognized because everyone takes her entire skill set for granted, despite crossing 800 career blocks this season, currently #3 all time, and #2 in blocks per game.

[yunokirstein]

Some Face Study of Brittney Mack as the Portrait of Anna of Cleve

(I hate drawing real faces but this does look too bad)

Insta & Cara: Yuno Kirstein

[unbreakable-heart-of-stone]

I mean…look at those Grammy nominees!

[six-costume-refs]

2022-23 Broadway Wigs

Starting off by mentioning that all the Six wigs are individually designed for their actors, with exact colors/textures/styles decided by what’s most flattering on the individual queen. That means that any new cast (especially in the US) could have totally new designs, new elements or colors/shades, or pre-existing elements but in a new combination. There are also times when wigs are totally standardized with the only change being the colors to match the individual queens’ hair (this is most commonly the case for Howard). And when I refer to US wigs or what’s typical for each role, I’m exclusively referring to mainland US (Broadway + tours). NCL is a totally different team and set of wigs.

There have also been quite a few changes between opening and the present. Anything that changes the overall look or design I’ll note, but anything in the vein of minor thinning or a very minor trim that isn’t particularly influential I won’t. Just know those things always happen a fair bit with new wigs.

Hailee Kareem Wright

Hailee has a full ombré wig in shades of dark browns. Middle part with Dutch braids on either side. It’s longer and with a flatter back and sides than many Aragon wigs.

US Aragon wigs have some of the most variance depending on the queen. This wig is definitely noticeably individualized for her (and I have to give the design team props for this, it’s definitely one of my favorite Six wigs). The basic design is near-identical to Bre Jackson’s wig with the ombré and Dutch braids, but it pretty significantly differs from Adrianna Hicks’, who had primarily black wigs with very dark brown highlights and no braids.

Leandra Ellis Gaston

First of all, a moment for the braids!!!! Truly was not expecting this and it was SUCH a welcome surprise.

Leandra has a full wig with hip-length box braids that are narrower at the front of the scalp but chunkier in the center back. Color mix is primarily black but has some very dark brown in there. Other than the braids(!!!) the middle part and space-buns are standard for US wigs.

Bella Coppola

This wig is actually very interesting. At first glance it’s a very typical Seymour wig but it’s a pretty significant departure from US Seymour wigs and more in line with UK: the beehive has only really been seen in UK (which I talked about here), both the US and UK used to use center parts but this past year the US has been using side parts, and US has typically shifted towards a shorter wig than Bella’s. Color is more unique too; most of the US (+NCL wigs) have had a little bit more of a red/strawberry/warm brown tone, while this one is more in line with the blondes popular in the UK (lot of factors here at play that I’ll get into another time). There’s still more of a golden tone than the more platinum that UK usually goes for, but it is overall more in line with UK.

They’ve also changed the wig slightly over time: the size of the beehive has been increased and it seems like there’s been a shift towards tighter curls rather than the usual looser curls it started with (which are more in line with we’ve been seeing from other US casts lately).

Nasia Thomas

Nasia’s wig has braids coming up from the sides and back to swoop into the top section that’s been left loose and to the right. Red highlights as (almost) always. It has been significantly thinned down with time (opening bottom right as opposed to top row from their performance a few weeks later).

The style is a significant change from Brittney Mack’s hair, who had her own braids with bleached highlights but no loose section and red added in only some of the time. The tour principals have had more of a mid range - braids up the sides/back and red highlights like Nasia, but the top section is still braids centered on the head rather a loose section to the side. The tour alts’ wigs all vary quite a bit with nothing identical but some similar elements.

Zoe Jensen

Very standard US Howard ponytail with nothing particularly new or notable. Pink dyes differ a bit from queen to queen but that’s really the only variance for her!

Taylor Iman Jones

Alright, here’s the one everyone’s been asking about. Taylor has a full black wig with some warm dark browns mixed in. She debuted a totally new hairstyle for Parr, completely different from anything we’ve seen before. At opening, the hair on the front right of her head was pulled over to the side and back, with all the hair on the left side of her face + the entire back bottom half down or to the side in loose curls. Since then they’ve thinned it out very substantially; the section on the left side of the face functions more like a ponytail (more like we’ve seen with Roxanne Couch’s old side ponytail wig or Sydney Parra’s wig) and the amount left loose at the bottom has been slimmed down.

A post on the alts (including Marilyn Caserta) will come a bit later - they haven’t all debuted and a few wig designs have been changing around.

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Top-bottom, L-R:

Hailee: 5 Dec 2022, Daniel Rader; 19 Dec 2022, Today Show; 5 Dec 2022, Jennifer Broski; posted 9 Dec 2022, @/sixthemusical

Leandra: 5 Dec 2022, either Michaelah Reynolds or Daniel Rader (credited as Reynolds by Leandra but Rader by Six); 19 Dec 2022, Today Show; 5 Dec 2022, Michaelah Reynolds; 5 Dec 2022, Daniel Rader

Bella: 5 Dec 2022, Jennifer Broski; posted 8 Dec 2022, @/bella_coppolala; posted 9 Dec 2022, @/sixthemusical; posted 22 Dec 2022, @/sixthemusical

Nasia: 19 Dec 2022, @/taylorimanjones; 19 Dec 2022, Today Show; 5 Dec 2022, Daniel Rader; posted 25 Dec 2022, @/nasiathomas

Zoe: @/lanazoejensen, @/carrington_spires

Taylor: 5 Dec 2022, @/peachez.nyc; 5 Dec 2022, Jennifer Broski; 5 Dec 2022, Michaelah Reynolds (Six credits as Daniel Rader but on Reynolds’ page); 5 Dec 2022, Jennifer Broski; @/hausofiman; 19 Dec 2022, Today Show; 19 Dec 2022, @/nasiathomas; posted 4 Dec 2022, @/sixthemusical

[derekklenadaily]

bwayrecords: Coming Friday, January 27th - THE BIG ONE-OH! Ultimate Cast Recording

Written by @dougbesterman, @timmcdonaldnyc and #DeanPitchford, and starring @thechristianborle, @derek_klena, @pattimurin, #BrittneyMack, @iammjscott and more! Pre-save with link in bio!

[redladydeath]

Instances of principal cast members in Six being out during opening and closing performances

UK Tour V1 closing (12/30/18) - Jarneia Richard-Noel and Alexia McIntosh were out, so Renee Lamb emergency covered Aragon and Grace Mouat covered Cleves

Pre-Broadway Tour closing (12/22/19) - Abby Mueller and Brittney Mack were injured, so Mallory Maedke and Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert took over the roles of Seymour and Cleves respectively for the duration of the St. Paul stop

UK Tour V3 opening (6/8/21) - Maddison Bulleyment was ill, so Jennifer Caldwell covered Boleyn

UK Tour V3 closing (3/6/22) - The tour's run was extended by a few days during which Vicki Manser was unable to perform, so Harriet Watson covered Howard

Aragon Tour opening (3/29/22) - Olivia Donalson was ill, so Keirsten Nicole Hodgens was flown out to emergency cover Cleves

Aragon Tour closing (7/30/23) - Natalie Paris was unable to perform, so Kelly Denice Taylor covered Seymour

Canadian Production opening (8/12/23) - Julia Pulo was unable to perform, so Darcy Stewart covered Boleyn