Bperfect Colour Chart
Elenio Guardado
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Fun fact of the day: Of course @lightleckrereins and I always have a hypothetical alternate costume system for each cast. Whenever a sixth alt joins a cast (or sometimes fifth, now that black alt seems to be retired), we assign them one of our sixsona designs. It's always fun and exciting for us to imagine a hypothetical system where those designs might get used and how, and it also serves a practical purpose as I use those colors for the actors in my cast list spreadsheet.
Those are actually quite fun! I wouldn't have expected to like purple for Cleves but it seems like it works well. Definitely some interesting choices but they feel the most cohesive out of the non-replica costumes I've seen so far.
It's Harriet Caplan-Dean's old skirt and most likely a Frankensteined version of her top with both old and new elements! I talked about the basic overview here, and I have a post in progress with some more detail that I will post whenever I have the mental energy to finish it haha.
alt costume assignments opinion of the day is that if the incoming UKT cast had the old system of alt costumes for first covers, the no brainer would be Milly in orange, Erin in teal, and Lorren in pink
Yes! It looks like it's not the full Bway/West End, but more in line with the current Boleyn Tour set. Even with the updated design there's a few elements that some sets have and some don't - you can ask @lightleckrereins more about that if you're curious as it's more her realm than mine. But it's definitely a long-needed update and I'm quite excited about it!
A few notes before I start: - Kayleigh McKnight (Seymour) is currently injured. Gabriella Stylianou (alt A/S) is temporarily performing in her place, including in the preview footage.- As a general rule of thumb, Six has slowly been standardizing the costumes for both US and UK. Most of that has been changes to the UK system/style to make them more in line with the US changes initially made for Broadway (a few changes have made their way to the US from the UK though). There's been a steady rollout of updates over the period post-lockdowns, but with this cast change most of the major holdouts have been changed at once. I'll get to that in a moment.- Obviously it's very early in the run and we haven't seen all the costumes yet, particularly for alts. I'll continue to update as we do.
Costumes (credits below)- Nikki Bentley's Aragon costume has had a few construction changes to be more in line with the US costumes. No major design differences, though. Not sure on maker yet.- Thảo Therse Nguyễn has the darker green which has been standardized for the last few UK casts. Not sure on maker yet.- Gabriella was previously with Norwegian Cruise Lines as part of Bliss 2.0, but as expected she did get a new costume. Her corset is in the US style/design rather than the UK style (info here, here). I'm not sure who made it and very much wondering if the corset only could be a US-make, but don't have enough information yet to know if that could be the case. I'm also waiting to see what Kayleigh's looks like. - Reca Oakley (Cleves) is another former NCL queen, but as expected she also did get a new costume. It was made by Paul Aspinall.- Inez Budd's Howard skirt has been changed to the US-style construction. This has smaller panels (rather than the old NCL/UK style; post here). However, unlike the US skirts, the vertical stud lines still go all the way to the bottom hem. Per usual, it was made by Ella Dancewear.- Janiq Charles is a standard Parr style, made by Ashleigh Cherry Costumes per usual.- Otherwise, the costumes seem to be in line with all recent UK standardization. - The alts' costumes should match the changes made for these principals.
Wigs/HMU- Nikki Bentley has an auburn tone with a side part and doesn't seem to have bleached/ombre highlights. Curled bob, a little longer than some we've seen in the past. It's a full wig.- Thảo has dark roots with a silvery-toned bleached wig. It's a long wig rather than some of the recent bobs. It's a full wig.- Gabriella has a side part and darker, honey blonde tone. It's pretty mid-range for Seymour wigs but is shorter than some of the recent UK. It's a full wig.- Janiq Charles has the curls pulled over to the side. It's a full wig.- Otherwise, the principal wigs are pretty standard.- No pictures of Naomi Alade in costume yet, but I am expecting her to have braids for all or most of her roles.- We've also seen quite a bit of the makeup so far, which I'll make a post about in the coming days.
Boots@lightleckrereins already made posts about a lot of this (here, here) but for easy access:- The cast seems to be standardized to a shorter heel than prior casts, like the shorter heel Chle Hart and Natalie Pilkington both got later in the 22-23 UK Tour run.- They've introduced the double height boots that the US productions have had for a few years now (explanation of the difference here). However, they're still sticking to the regular UK-style boot body with crystals rather than switching to the US-style lattice and studs. Right now it looks like Nikki Bentley (Aragon) and Janiq Charles (Parr) have the double height, while Reca Oakley (Cleves) has the regular Cleves thigh highs and everyone else seems to have regular single height. Of course, that post includes Gabriella Stylianou rather than Kayleigh McKnight so no good look at Kayleigh or other alts yet.- All the boots seem to have interchangeable straps. We first saw these with the US and then UK alts - it allows them to have one pair of boots with a monochrome silver heel and then just trade out their straps depending on which costume they're wearing. This is the first time we've seen that for principals; Sofia talked more about why this change might be happening in the post I linked at the start of this section.
Alt costumes- We've seen a silver alt costume in progress that should be for Meg Dixon-Brasil. (Made by Paul Aspinall per usual)- We've also seen part of a pink alt costume. It could feasibly be either Natalie Pilkington's or it could be one for Hannah Lowther. Judging from Hannah's makeup, she does seem to have their standard makeup pieces for pink alt. - Naomi Alade has orange palette and glitter, so she presumably has the orange alt costume.- We still don't know what costume Natalie Pilkington will have. She has her old principal Seymour/Parr and pink alt system from the 2022-23 UK Tour, and during the 2021-22 UK Tour she had a black alt costume that was a mishmash of old and new pieces. I'm expecting that she'll wear a black alt costume (either entirely or mostly new), but it's possible that she reuses her old pink alt instead (it has been a while since she's worn black alt and most of it was already old). I talked in more depth about some of those possibilities here.
Center row is all the North American tours. Left shows Aragon Tour, middle shows Boleyn Tour 1.5, and right shows Boleyn Tour 2.0. Broadway used the Aragon style up until this current cast (2023-2024), which uses the same style as Boleyn Tour.
Hey! The exact shoes are custom made by La Duca, so it's just about finding dupes! For a while a few of the casts had high-heeled Doc Marten boots that they wore in rehearsals and those are still sold, but they are of course incredibly expensive.
Again, those are a few from a quick look. If nothing there is what you want, there are plenty more options! If you live in an area with department stores or anything similar, I'd suggest looking there for better deals too - I found my "Six boots" for $20 on clearance at a Macy's in 2018.
Hey! The shaping is from at the seams between the blue and black (cutout) panels. Each panel is separate to allow for that shaping. The panels higher on the bodice are generally straight without any need to be used for shaping, while the panels lower on the bottom are essential for the shape.
There hasn't been an alt with full on different hair colors for each role. Cruise casts had a lot of cases where one role had a different wig (generally blonde seymour) and most had wigs in different shades but the same color. Cruises dont generally make custom wigs unless necessary so most six wigs were sourced from their stock and adapted as necessary which means colors are not a perfect match. They also had a low key fixation with making casts look as close to the original broadway cast as possible so a lot of blonde seymour happened.
From what I remember the closest we had to three different colors was Ashlee Waldbauer from Bliss 3 who had a very bright copper wig for Boleyn, a strawberry blonde for Seymour and her own hair, darker auburn that looks brown when pulled (and gelled) back, as base for Howard with an almost entirely pink with what looks like brownish roots ponytail.
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