#six lyric

[six-costume-refs]

If the pandemic and shutdowns hadn't happened, do you think Six would still be at the Arts in London?

I think moving on from the Arts was a smart choice. But I don’t know all the ins and outs of the West End and how changing theaters might work like I know that with Broadway.

If they had had an opportunity to switch, I wouldn’t have been surprised if they did. Choosing the right theater is a big deal for a show. How big or how small a theater is, its’ location, the experience of going to it, can all affect feel or vibe. The size affects how far away audiences might be away from the stage, which affects how designers and creatives design and plan different parts of the show. And the larger the theater the more seats you can fill and the more revenue you can make, but you have to make sure that you can consistently fill up that theater and that it doesn't overwhelm the show (how many seats are filled at every show is a big deal for optics and audience experience!). But those bigger theaters can also be much more expensive to run. The biggest theaters tend to show the biggest, most successful, spectacle-based shows with huge casts that won’t get lost (Wicked is a perfect example of that, and currently plays at both the largest West End theater and the largest Broadway). Medium-sized theaters often host smaller musicals, ones that either need a more intimate feel to be successful OR ones that won't sell as many tickets. The smallest theaters generally only host plays, and often only for very limited runs; the audiences are generally much smaller and a more intimate feel benefits most (but not all) plays in the modern day. The West End does differ a bit from Broadway in some of this, but it’s mostly fairly similar; one of the biggest differences of that they'll still have some musicals at some of their smallest theaters (that really does not happen with Broadway). Some of that comes down to theater ownership, but that’s beyond the scope of this post.

The Arts is the smallest West End theater and only seats 350. It generally tends to show smaller shows for shorter runs (a few weeks, a few months at most). It generally is used more for plays, although they do do short runs of some specific newer musicals. It was a great fit for Six in 2018, when they stopped there from Aug 30 - Oct 14 as part of the 1st UK Tour. The show was still very new, still a little scrappy but buzzy and empowering, and at that point in time it worked in a smaller venue. It did so well there that they decided to have it back in Jan 2019. That was initially just announced as an extended “sit-down” tour stop and that they’d then continue to tour after (yes, that sounds contradictory, but some touring productions do do extended stops, like Aragon Tour in Chicago, that they sometimes bill as a “sit-down” stop; I'm expecting the same from the "Canadian production"). I can’t remember/couldn’t find how long that 2019 stop was initially announced for, but by the time it actually opened in Jan 2019 it had already been extended to mid-September and then again to mid-October, which eventually became their cast change. But of course, the rest is history and Six has been on the West End ever since.

The Arts also has a smaller backstage area. That means smaller dressing rooms and just not as much space as many other theaters have. It’s also not owned by any of the big theater operators, and as a result it may not have the same technical capacity that many other West End theaters have. That can heavily affect what lighting, sets, and sound can look like for any given show.

All that to say, the Arts really isn’t intended to house a huge show like Six long-term! If Six was always expected to become this huge commercial show like they are now, I doubt they would have started their 2019 run there in the first place. For comparison, Six is currently in the Vaudeville, which seats 690. They were also temporarily in the Lyric, which seats 915. For comparison, the Palladium is the West End's biggest theater, with 2,286 seats (it only runs very short term productions). I did see quite a few critiques when Six moved to the Lyric from the Arts that it felt way too big and not as intimate; I didn’t see it in either spot so I can’t personally speak to that, but that wouldn’t be surprising (although worth noting that some of that may just be that the massive size shift was startling to long time fans who were used to the Arts, rather than actually bad).

Obviously I don’t have access to all of the internal records but to me the Vaudeville seems like a good fit. It’s about twice as big as the Arts, and that lets them sell about twice as many tickets. They’re having absolutely no issue with that either - Six is always sold out or nearly sold out under normal conditions; right now, it’s entirely sold out through mid-April. That helps them bring in quite a bit more revenue, and some of the costume updates we’ve seen in recent years are going to be because of that increased budget (there’s a reason alts got principal costumes for first covers not long after the Vaudeville and Lyric runs started). It’s also plenty big enough for all the necessary dressing rooms, hmu, wigs, etc, and with enough room to spare for them to also host incoming cast members at a full cast change seemingly pretty comfortably. But despite the larger size, the Vaudeville is small enough that it will still feel fairly intimate and the (really fairly small) show/cast won’t get lost.

So….considering how popular Six is and the general function of the Arts Theatre, I think they would have made a move at some point. It was definitely in their best interest business-wise to do so. As for if there are any specific rules about switching West End theaters and dictating when/how they could have done that, I don’t know.

And with all that talk of comparing different theater experiences....for people who have seen Six in multiple theaters (WE, Bway, Aus, NCL, tours, or a combo), which was your favorite? How did where you sit affect your experience? How did the size of the theater overall?

[spottedgardeneelstan]

you’ll hear me howling outside your door

[pummelingbat]

ah, the fitful sleep & the fire engines that i dream of when i dream

[zaiofender]

repost of this old drawing with changed lyrics

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

Quick silly doodles of a robot imagining his future w his robot crush, Readerbot <3

[kacievvbbbb]

You ever think about how Mihawk definitely does not hear his name alot?

Like there are probably only 2 people in the entire world that consistently refer to him by name. To the rest of the world he’s just an epithet. He might as well have no real name for as little as he hears it.

He’ll hear it at introductions always preface by his epithet, he’ll see it in the bounty posters and notice it in the history books. But barely anyone will ever calm him that. Just a pink headed ghost girl and the red headed half of the most complicated situationship panning 20 years.

You ever think about how Shanks probably has a thousand and one nicknames for Mihawk he cycles through at a whim but maybe Mihawk’s favorite will always be the soft way in which Shanks calls out his given name like that’s all there is too it like there’s a Mihawk that exists all on its own. No matter the situation Shanks calls him Mihawk and he has his full attention

[atdawn]

— but the gateway to the world was still outside the reach of him.

[awnrii]

i do, i do, i do / trace me back to you

hi. normal about bertleif. here’s a bertleif timeline (at least, until the events of episode 20.)

\/ here’s a version where it’s all stacked up in one image!

[songsaa]

The no sabo kid, robot, and the gringo

Might update this later if I ever alter it since I had to rush the last few minutes

[valtsv]

i'm racking up an entire playlist of songs i want to make dungeon meshi amvs to once we have more anime to work with, now i'm storyboarding a my alcoholic friends amv for laios and marcille (not ship, just dungeon lord parallels) on my way to work

[al13n8r]

I control the world, you control my heart...

[thebigqueer]

kaz talking like he’s a lana del rey lyric 😭

[harryzroze]

have this panel o lil gay monkeys because i still like parts of it

(sharing the lyric comic that’s part of this soon)

zoom ins for potential better quality below

[l0verei]

I’ll be waiting…

So- finally decided to draw and color something in!! Found this song recently and I think it goes both ways for them, Macaque wanting to finally have that bond like before but never quite having the chance to fully get it. Like how the Moon yearns for the Sun, yet it’s too focused on the Earth to truly care.

(Also the highlights in the hair are moon crescents and the same thing is in the ears!!)

(It might look a bit wonky on Tumblr so I’m not sure how it’ll look clear or not-)

And the lyrics are from I’ll be waiting by Cian Ducrot, the one I prefer is the choir version but both are so good!

Choir Version Below!!

[nine-is-not-a-ten]

i feel like Jesper would LOVE hamilton and be a total bitch about it

Kaz: What time is it--

Jesper: SHOWTIME!

Wylan: God, I just feel so---

Jesper: Helplesssss?

Inej: I just wanna be in the---

Jesper:

Inej: Aren't you going to interrupt me?

Jesper: I'm too scared.

[averlym]

fairest of the fair