#laura dawn pyatt

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Six the Musical Alphabet

L is for -> Lauren Drew, Leandra Ellis-Gaston, Loren Hunter, Leah Vassell, Laura Dawn Pyatt, Lori McLare, Lou Henry, Lauren Mariasoosay, Liv Alexander & Leesa Tulley

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Happy (belated) Pride Month 2024!

Happy pride month post, 2024 edition. Slightly late this year but better late than never!

As always, I'm featuring actors who have identified themselves as having an LGBTQ+ identity or relationship, but this list is certainly not comprehensive. There are likely other closeted actors and/or actors who are out but may not have explicitly stated their queerness clearly enough for me to feel comfortable including them. As identity is a deeply personal (and potentially unsafe) topic, I try to err strongly on the side of caution in who I do or don't include. And just like in past years, this post only includes actors who are currently with the show or joined the show/had a new contract since my 2023 post, even if they're not currently involved.

Pictured: Claudia Kariuki (emergency cover, West End) Kelsee Kimmel (Seymour, Canada) Ruby Gibbs (Seymour, Breakaway 6.0) Jenny Mollet (alt A/B/S, Broadway) Meg Dixon-Brasil (swing, West End) Chelsea Dawson (Howard, Australia Tour) Lou Henry (Howard, UK and International Tour) Taylor Sage Evans (alt B/H/P, Boleyn Tour) Danielle Mendoza (Cleves, Boleyn Tour) Cydney Clark (Cleves, Breakaway 6.0) Zelia Rose Kitoko (Cleves, Australia Tour) Harriet Watson (emergency cover, UK Tour) Meghan Corbett (Aragon, Breakaway 6.0) Carlina Parker (alt A/C/P, Boleyn Tour) Aryn Bohannon (alt B/S/H, Boleyn Tour) Laura Dawn Pyatt (Boleyn, UK and International Tour) Gabriela Carrillo (Parr, Broadway) Amelia Atherton (Parr, Bliss 7.0)

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@/sophiexsheppard and @/izimaxwell on Instagram, 18 August 2024

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

I KNEW the UK Tour being down an alt was gonna cause problems when they’re literally in the INTERNATIONAL leg of their tour, I just didn’t wanna manifest them into existence. They really should’ve gotten a temporary principle Boleyn instead of Izi (nothing against her, but they need the coverage) or a temporary swalt. 😭

[janedances]

uk tour queens my beloved

[danielcampcampcultleader]

Not to brag but I've seen Laura Dawn Pyatt in TWO things. Six The Musical... AND A PANTO :P

I didn't even know she was in it until today :P

[lightleckrereins]

Six UK tour 2023 costume breakdown

Guess who is doing the write-up this time. This will include the costumes that have been onstage so far: principal costumes, alternate principal costumes, silver swing and orange alt and will be updated with the rest of alternate costumes once we get good photos of those. Also a few general notes:

The entire cast has the numeral earrings and glitter IEMs.

The boots are custom made by LaDuca with rhinestones done by Crystalled by Jane who does all the UK boots and collaborated on the heel designs with Gabriella Slade. All boots minus Cleves have the single wide strap and alternates have silver heels and interchangeable straps. Ellie Jane grant gets a second pair of tigh high boots for Cleves.

Aragon: Nicole Louise Lewis (principal), Ellie Jane Grant (alternate)

The costumes follow the style of recent UK Aragon costumes with a wide front panel and skirt gap. The peplum has been switched from a single piece laying mostly flat against the skirt that 2022 WE and UKT have/had to a more US looking rised peplum made of different panels. Unlike most Aragon costumes the shoulder straps widen at the bottom and are not fully aligned with the bodice seams and the horizontal band at the collar is wider than usual. The necklaces have black trim weaved through the chains. The costume is likely made by White Star costume.

They both have full wigs styled with braids at the front following the hairline. Nicole's wig is black and reaches her upper back, Ellie's wig is auburn slightly shorter and has a little more volume as both are made following their hairtype.

Boleyn: Laura Dawn Pyatt (principal), Izi Maxwell (alternate)

This costumes have the darker green vinyl that was introduced to the UK in late 2022 and has become the standard since. Unlike most Boleyn costumes where the square cutouts start right at the waist or slightly higher (being partially cut on top) and are either cut before a third row of squares at the bottom starts or have the third row cut these skirts have solid black above and below the squares to complete the lenght. It is more visible on Izi as her skirt is longer. The costume is likely made by White Star costume.

Laura wears her hair mid back. Izi has worn hairpieces in a few different lenghts but it seems to have settled on a chin lenght hairpiece with the tips curved inward.

Seymour: Erin Caldwell (principal), Tamara Morgan (alternate)

The costumes are standard UK costume with a black trim weaved through the chain. The costumes are made by Kirsti Reid.

Erin has a full wig that reaches mid back. It is styled with a slight side part (that had only been used in the US and SK productions while UK did only mid parts), a styled front in line with the recent SK stylings, no beehive and soft curls towards the bottom. She wore a crown with a black base at the start of her run but switched to a white base, which had only been used in US productions and cruises at that point. Tamara wears her own hair styled with a side part and the sides pulled back, she also wears a hairpiece that reaches her mid back.

Cleves: Kenedy Small (principal), Ellie Jane Grant (alternate)

They both have standard UK costumes made by Paul Aspinall (who has made all UK Cleves in recent years) and reveal leotards by Queen of stretch.

Kenedy wears a full wig styled in the usual Cleves updo with braids on the sides and curls styled towards the front and over her forehead; Samuel James wigs who makes all the UK wigs and hairpieces posted a different wig for her that seems to be cut (Ellie has worn her hair styled on a simpler version of the updo in varying heights, but she might get a wig in the future.

Howard: Lou Henry (principal), Izi Maxwell (alternate)

They both have costumes made by Ella dancewear who is the primary UK Howard maker. The skirts seem to be slightly narrower than usual.

Right at the start Lou wore a base wig with styled bangs in the front and a separate ponytail attached to the wig; she had a different styling with a front poof instead of styled bangs during tech and wig fittings. Mid may she started wearing her own hair as base instead of the wig. Izi wears her hair pulled back into a bun with the ponytail on top in the usual Howard styling.

Parr: Aoife Haakenson (principal), Tamara Morgan (alternate)

Aoife has a standard UK Parr costume. Tamara´s costume mostly follows the UK style but her pants havea higher waist than usual and her peplum is narrower to accomodate her build. Both costumes are made by AshleighCherrycostumes who is the primary UK Parr maker.

Aoife wears a full wig styled in a version of the braid and ponytail hairstyle that seems to be the new standard for non black Parr actors. She has a french braid on top and the sides pulled back into a ponytail lightly curled on the tips. And a crown on both sides like Roxanne and the SK Parrs. Tamara wears her own hair styled in the curly side ponytail.

Swing: Shakira Simpson

Shakira has the silver swing costume made by Paul Aspinall. So far she has debuted Aragon, Seymour and Howard wearing the main silver skirt and Parr wearing pants, but from costume maker posts we know she has a Cleves costume. She has a K charm for Howard and likely a B charm for Boleyn. During rehearsals she posted boots with a new heel rhinestone design, but she got the usual silver design by the time she debuted.

She wears her own hair for all the queens she has debuted so far with hairpieces added for some of them. For Aragon she wears her hair pulled back on the sides with a short curled hairpiece and a silver version of the Aragon crown. For Seymour she wears her hair pulled back on the sides, and a mid back lenght hairpiece curled with soft waves. For howard she wears her hair pulled back into a bun and a waist long straight ponytail. For Parr she wears her hair styled in a simmilar way to Aoife with a braid at the front and a ponytail on the back. She wears different lipstick for each queen and regular silver hoop earrings.

Alternates: Ellie Jane Grant, Izi Maxwell

Ellie has the teal costume for her second and third covers. Her costume is the current standard teal variation with pants and a peplum and a darker blue vinyl. So far she has debuted Boleyn and Parr in this costume. She has interchangeable boot straps in the teal square design.

For Boleyn she wears her own hair styled into spacebuns and has a B charm choker. For Parr she wears her own hair styled to the curly side ponytail.

Izi has the orange costume for her second and third covers. She has debuted Seymour and Cleves in this costume. The costume is a standard UK orange with pants and peplum likely made by Camden costumes. It has a notable difference in the cutout panels on the front and back of her top being narrower than usual to accomodate for her build. She has interchangeable boot straps in the current orange style with black outlines.

For Seymout she wears her own hair pulled back with a long back hairpiece styled in a very small beehive. For Cleves she wears her hair in an updo with three buns that is the standard for UK alts with straight hair, the buns are likely a hairpiece as her hair is too short to create enough volume. For her promo photo she wore the orange costume and her Parr hairstyle which is the same combination of braid and ponytail Aoife and Tamara wear, in Izi's case it is her own hair styled at the front and a hairpiece for the ponytail in the back.

Note: we have seen tamara in her pink alt costume in promo photos and backstage but she hasn't debuted any queens in pink I didn't add that costume yet. All the alt costumes are likely made by Camden Costumes.

All photos come from the queen's personal instagram or tiktok accounts (@/nicolelouise_lewis, @/lauradawnpyatt_, @/erincaldwellxox, @/kenedysmall, @/louhenry, @/aoife_haakenson, @/s.simpson, @/elliejane.grant, @/izimaxwell, @/tamannemorgan) the six main accounts (@/sixthemusical), and promotional photos are by Pamela Raith (@/peachyraith)

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There's an interesting gap on Izi Maxwell's Boleyn skirt between the normal green holo square pattern and the studded trim. You can see an extra inch of black with studs only, then the trim, but this is not on Laura Pyatt's skirt

They usually try to work out the placement of Boleyn squares so that they’re all full and nothing gets cut off. Since the square size can’t be adjusted, the black gets adjusted for the little differences in length. Usually it works pretty well, but sometimes it makes it look like there’s a blank gap where there seems like there shouldn’t be. In Izi’s case, it’s just because her skirt is a little longer than the amount of space that the existing squares take up, but way too short to add another full square in that blank spot.

Here’s a few different costumes for comparison:

L-R: Izi Maxwell (23-24 UKT alt), Laura Dawn Pyatt (23-24 UKT), Jennifer Caldwell (22-23 UKT), 김지우 (South Korea)

These have all been made in about the last eight months and they’re seemingly all made by WhiteStar in the UK. You can see how their slightly different skirt lengths affects the amount of black at the top and bottom. You can also compare the tops: 김지우 has a longer top which translates to extra black at the bottom and an extra row of studs, while the other three have shorter tops with the same number of cutouts but less black at the bottoms as a result. You can also look at the side of Laura’s top: it has a blank spot where *most,* but not all, of a cutout would fit. Since it would be cut off, they didn’t include it at all.

Again, those are all made very recently and to my knowledge all by the same studio. There’s difference in this current format as opposed to how the US or prior makers have made them. Sometimes the first cutouts have been started right at the top. Sometimes it’s consistently been a shorter skirt with the bottom hem cutting off squares or very close to squares. Sometimes they’ve added another row of squares, and/or a third size. There’s been a lot of different cutout placement strategies over the years and this just seems to be the most current for the UK.

There are similar versions of specific placements for cutouts for just about every costume design now. Boleyn is just particularly noticeable because it has much larger cutouts and by extension less wiggle room before it starts to look odd. Black alt is the other one with large cutouts, and Sofia has already written up a post about that placement here.

[unwrittenemmy]

WAKE UP BABES NEW UK TOUR CAST

ERIN FREAKING CALDWELL IS SEYMOUR?????

[lgbtmi]

went to see six, now find myself obsessed with laura dawn pyatt's anne boleyn. that's it that's the post.

[thatoneguyatthecorner]

has anyone got an audio of the new uk tour cast?

[redladydeath]

"I'm that Boleyn girl and I'm up next See, I broke England from the church Yeah, I'm that sexy Why did I lose my head? Well, my sleeves may be green But my lipstick's red"

[Ashleigh Weir; Christina Modestou; Millie O'Connell; Andrea Macasaet; Hazel Karooma-Brooker; Courtney Bowman; Maddison Bulleyment; Kelly Sweeney; Kala Gare; Lucy Aiston; Liv Alexander; L'Oréal Roaché; Amanda Lindgren; Jennifer Caldwell; Danielle Mendoza; Storm Lever; Casey Esbin; Jessie Bodner; Zan Berube; Baylie Carson; Gianna Grosso; Leandra Ellis-Gaston; Sunayna Smith; Kim Ji-woo; Pae Su-jeong; Laura Dawn Pyatt; Fiorella Bamba; Julia Pulo; Analise Rios; Izabela Pawletko; Enikő Muri; Réka Zsitva; Thao Therese Nguyen; Lorren Santo-Quinn]

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Happy (belated) Pride Month 2023!

Made this graphic back during pride month but since I was on hiatus I just never posted it. But better late than never, so here’s the belated 2023 pride post from me. As always, this list is certainly not comprehensive. There are likely other closeted actors and/or actors who are out but may not have explicitly stated their queerness. As identity is a sensitive topic I always err on the side of caution when creating these. And just like in past years, this only includes current actors.

Pictured:

Claudia Kariuki (West End)

Willow Dougherty (Bliss 6.0)

Leah Vassell (West End)

Aryn Bohannon (Boleyn Tour)

Caitlyn De Kuyper (Bliss 6.0)

Aubrey Matalon (Broadway)

Dionne Ward-Anderson (West End)

Haley Izurieta (Bliss 6.0)

Kelsee Kimmel (Aragon Tour)

Hailee Kaleem-Wright (Broadway)

Laura Dawn Pyatt (UK Tour)

Sunny Smith (Breakaway 5.0)

Baylie Carson (West End)

Taylor Pearlstein (Boleyn Tour)

Gabriela Francesca Carrillo (Aragon Tour)

Taylor Iman Jones (Broadway)

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Photos of Claudia, Dionne, Laura, and Baylie by Pamela Raith. Photos of Aryn, Aubrey, Hailee, Taylor P, Gabriela, and Taylor IJ by Joan Marcus. Others from personal accounts.

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@/harrietwatson92, @/izimaxwell, and @/aimeemorgan_03 on Instagram, 28 June 2024

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

I really wish the 23-24 UK tour queens were talked about more, I feel like they haven’t gotten as much buzz recently since they haven’t dealt with SIX chaos in a while. Such a fun cast.

[janedances]

UK Tour 2023-24 Queens!

Nicole Louise Lewis (Dreamgirls) as ARAGON

Laura Dawn Pyatt (42 Balloons) as BOLEYN

Erin Caldwell (Heathers) as SEYMOUR

Kenedy Small (Wicked Das Musical) as CLEVES

Lou Henry as HOWARD

Aoifie Haakenson as PARR

Completing this cast are the incredible swalts!

Ellie Jane Grant as Aragon/Cleves, Izi Maxwell as Boleyn/Howard, Tamara Morgan as Seymour/Parr and Shakira Simpson as Super Swing!

They begin performances 25th April in Tunbridge Wells!