seeing this show from the 5th row was absolutely worth the 6 month wait. the costumes (OMG THE COSTUMES!!!!), the ladies in waiting, the queens, the energy in the room. i loved being a part of it all. my sister and i got acknowledged by aragon, howard, and seymour throughout the show which was pretty cool. this show was everything i could’ve hoped for - female empowerment, hilarious, filled with bop after bop, incredible vocals/dancing etc. i couldn’t ask for a better birthday weekend and first show back to broadway.
Fly Davis, Caroline, or Change Toni-Leslie James, Paradise Square William Ivey Long, Diana, The Musical Santo Loquasto, The Music Man Gabriella Slade, SIX: The Musical Paul Tazewell, MJ
When six introduced custom made LaDuca boots in 2019 they also introduced designs to the rhinestones on the heels which had previously been only a few scattered over the heel and boot. The original heel designs were created by Crystalled by Jane who continues to make the UK boots, and made the early cruise boots. The same designs have been replicated (with some small variation) by John Kristiansen NY or LaDuca for US productions, Norwegian Creative Studios for recent cruise casts, and Sydney Diamanté for Australia, a few flat boots that were added post opening were made by the wardrobe departments.
Rhinestones started all as Swarovski but have recently moved to Preciosa or a mix of both. The most common rhinestone size is 5 mm (SS20 in swarovski sizing) but some cruise boots have used a bigger size.
This is not meant to be a color guide. Crystal rhinestones are made to catch the light and show a variety of shades so using a single color would always be a misrepresentation, crystals will also look different in studio, stage and backstage light making figuring out colors even harder. On top of that the colors used for the boots are constantly changing between productions and even within the same cast.
While most boots now use the same design in the heel and straps previous straps used bigger rhinestones, studs or no rhinestones at all.
Aragon:Diagonal lines in three different shades of gold. Original design was one row of each color and newer ones have two of each.
Boleyn:Squares in white and one or two shades of green. Original design was 2x2 squares alternating between light and medium green with white outlines. US productions do white 2x2 squares with green outlines. Newer UK boots changed to 3x3 squares. Australia and NCS still use the small green squares with white outline. Colors are usually light and medium green shades, but darker ones and light teal have been used.
Seymour:Vertical lines in two shades of light grey or white and one dark grey. The two light stripes look like the same color as shades tend to be very simmilar.
Cleves:Two rows of zig zag lines in red and white. On thin straps they do white base with red zig zag or red base with white zig zag.
Howard:Diagonal lines or diamonds in white and two shades of pink. Diagonals alternate one row from each color. Diamonds are 5 rhinestones wide and tall with one white row vertically between them and two horizontally. UK and NCS use diamonds while US and Australia diagonals. The colors have been a wide range of pink shades with a few having purple or orange.
Parr:Solid bands. Bands 5 rhinestones wide alternating two colors. Have been blue and white/silver or blue and metallic silver. Before 2021 Parr boots didn’t have rhinestones on the straps. This design is no longer in use, being last seen in Bliss 3.0.
Parr (continued): Solid blue or diamonds. The solid blue has been used exclusively in Australia. The diamonds follow the same pattern as the Howard diamonds. In the UK the diamonds are two shades of blue simmilar to the costume colors while in the US there have been a variety of shades including greyish blues and purple.
Black alt: Lines or two different styles of diamonds. The lines were the original design used until 2020; this alternate a single white line with two lines of grey and black. The diamonds originally folllowed the Howard style with a new one being introduced in 2021. The new one has only one row of white rhinestones separating the diamonds in both directions.
Teal alt: Squares. Originally 2x2 squares in different shades of teal separated by white lines. More recent boots have changed to 3x3 squares in the same colors. Rhinestones have been a variety of shades of teal
Orange alt: Diamonds. Originally orange boots had the same pattern as Howard and Parr with two shades of orange and white outlines. Recently they have moved to the new diamond format with single rhinestone outlines with diamonds in orange and white and black outlines.
Pink alt: The original pink boots had the usual diamonds but rotated. Instead of one rhinestone separating the diamonds vertically and two horizontally, these had two vertically and one horizontally. From the single closeup we have of this pair it seems it had one single light pink color and white.
Pink alt (continued): The newer pink boots changed to the new diamond format with only one line of rhinestones separating the diamonds. The color also changed to white and lilac instead of pink.
Silver alt: A design of white crosses (with 2 rhinestones on each side) with black squares in between them.
Broadway alternates: The original Broadway alts got boots with principal designs in black, white and grey. Nicole has Aragon diagonal stripes, Courtney Boleyn squares and Mallory diamonds.
Broadway alternates (continued): Keirsten has Cleves zig zag. Keri got custom boots almost at the end of her principal run, while the design is vertical lines as Seymour. She has two straps which is not the US Seymour style, making us suspect she might have alt boots instead. During cruise rehearsals a few boots in this b/w style have been spotted. This suggests that Bliss 2.0 (and potentially the cancelled original Breakaway 2.0 and Getaway 1.0) alts had boots in the Broadway alt style, but since we never got any clear photos of their finished boots it is impossible to be sure. This style is apparently discontinued now.
Alternates:Recently alts who wear principal costumes have a new style of boots with white heels and interchangeable straps with the main designs. While the heels seem to be all white its been mentioned that the UK ones use two different shades and a few US boots seem to have at least two aswell this would create a little more depth to the design under stagelights. The three possibilities are principal designs in two shades of white crystals (possibly spotted in Leesa Tulley’s boots), all white, or two colors scattered accross the heel.
Hey y’all! I’m seeing a lot of Six fans with really high expectations for the Tonys. I know it can be really exciting for a show you love to be in the Tonys, but a quick heads up: it is very unexpected for Six to win almost anything.
I know that might be disappointing. Obviously Six is a really great show! But Six usually falls into the trap of getting a lot of nominations that very rarely translate to wins, and ultimately there are a few incredibly deserving, strong shows this year that just have a better chance of winning pretty much every award Six is up for!
So considering everyone is at least a little dissapointed by six not getting any acting tony nominations lets do a poll. Who were you expecting to get nominated and who did you want to get nominated (different things). Throw it in responses or tags because I am really curious.
Personally I thought they would get at least one nomination for either Adrianna or Brittney but mostly hoped for Adrianna.
Adrianna Hicks was both who I wanted to get a nomination and who I expected to be most likely (although generally knowing who is a likely contender for noms also really affects who I want to get one so there’s that)
I thought Brittney Mack could have a shot because prior nom and she really gets a chance to show off her stage presence as Cleves (I do think a nom could have been in the cards in the featured category). I didn’t think Sam Pauly was the most likely of the cast but she’s always possible to throw in the ring just because Howard.
Six is a hard show as far as major award show set ups and categories, and this is a weird year for the Tonys all around. Super curious what it would have been like with a few alterations and would have LOVED to see Adrianna get a nom, but it is what it is.
I just logged on so I’m not sure what all has happened today but I see that everyone is really excited about the Broadway tweet as a hint for swing or extra songs, so let me talk about that for a second
A) I really don’t expect we’ll get anything like that. Yes Six does try to support their swings and the fandom loves them, but for them to get solo songs is totally unheard of. It’s just not practical for Six to schedule all of that extra studio time and figure out all of those logistics. Maybe we’ll get a deluxe version of Six with the swings or maybe the swings will be added on as backing vocals (in addition to the principals) for one or two songs, but solo songs are just really not expected.
B) The most pressing question for the general public is the release date, and that’s what Six will focus on announcing before anything else.
Hint is numbers 1-18. Today is May 1st. A release date of May 18th gives them enough time to build up hype prior to the release while also situating the release at a time that’s perfect for the Tony’s.
Besides being obsessed with obey me, I’m also a musical theater weeb, and I was wondering which would be the cast if the brothers played the queens of Six.
Also I can’t stop thinking about Asmo being Katherine Howard… he’s the definition of a salty bitch like her
