Carbon Beef

The fact we got this promo but we never got a Kellyoke of Kelly Clarkson singing Heart of Stone, I Don't Need Your Love, No Way, or All You Wanna Do (in the order of which I personally think she would've KILLED those songs).

Swapped Parr for Boleyn:

Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert: Alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr on the 2019 Pre-Broadway Tour, later became Alternate Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves in the 2021-22 Broadway Company. (note: she did end up going on as Parr during initial Broadway Previews in 2020, though this was under the very short-lived Broadway Pre-Pandemic cover system where the alternates had two first covers and three second covers)

Hailey Alexis Lewis: Standby Aragon/Cleves/Parr in the 2023-24 Canadian Production, later became Alternate Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves in the 2024-25 Boleyn Tour Company (and currently Principal Cleves in the 2025-26 Boleyn Tour Company)

Added Boleyn as a Fourth Queen:

Marilyn Caserta: Swing Aragon/Cleves/Parr on Bliss 3.0, later Universal Alternate covering Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves/Parr for the Broadway, Aragon Tour, and Boleyn Tour Companies from 2022 to 2023.

Jana Larell Glover: Alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr in the 2022-23 Boleyn Tour Company, later became Alternate Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves/Parr in both the 2023-25 and 2025-26 Broadway Company.

Carlina Parker: Alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr in both the 2024 and 2024-25 Boleyn Tour Company, later Alternate Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves/Parr in the 2025-26 Boleyn Tour Company.

Honorable Mentions/Other Instances:

These performers covered/performed specifically these four roles, though under different circumstances. It felt wrong and incomplete not to include them in this post.

Abi Hodgson: Swing Aragon/Boleyn/Cleves on Bliss 2.0 and Breakaway 2.0, later Swing Aragon/Cleves/Parr on Breakaway 5.0.

Grace Melville: Alternate Aragon/Cleves in the 2022-23 UK Tour Company, later debuting Boleyn as a second cover and Parr as a third cover.

This covers all North American Productions (Pre-Broadway Tour, Broadway, Aragon Tour, Boleyn Tour, and Canada), Cruise Productions (Bliss & Breakaway, including Rehearsal Swings who covered 3 roles), as well as the 23-25 and 25-26 West End Alts (assumption: Leonor's, though not debuted, 2nd Cover is Aragon... I mean it's all but confirmed based on photographs/videos of their costume rack... I'll provide a minor update if incorrect), and the 2024-25 UK Tour alternates who all collectively cover 3 roles.

Additionally, I included Danielle Rose's return contract as a temporary alternate for the 2023-25 West End cast (covering Boleyn/Seymour/Howard, though only performing as Seymour/Howard) and Hana Stewart's stint as a Broadway alternate (covering Aragon/Seymour/Parr, though only performing as Parr) included as well.

I also excluded duplicates in the instance where a performer moved from one production to another and maintained the same covers (example: Aryn Bohannon moved from the Boleyn Tour to Broadway but kept her covers of Boleyn/Seymour/Howard). I did, however, make sure to include when a performer moved from one production to another and changed covers (example: Mallory Maedke covered Boleyn/Seymour/Howard on the Pre-Broadway Tour but covered Aragon/Seymour/Howard on Broadway).

All that aside, here's the breakout:

The fact that after YEARS of this show’s run, this has to be addressed by the current West End Cast. I know it’s a very small yet (very obviously) loud portion of the fandom that has caused this, but good god, how many annual/nearly-annual cast changes have we been through across all the productions? It’s a contract with an end date, people come and go (and plus a lot end up coming back in an unplanned capacity for a moment or many moments anyway)…

But no fr, this new tour cast is absolutely stellar! I had the privilege of seeing Danielle and Alize on their earlier run of the tour (they definitely are in my top 5 of performers in their respective roles) and it was so cool to see them again, but up close in the front few rows of the orchestra as opposed to the balcony (also holy shit, the costumes up close under the lights are GORGEOUS! Gabriella Slade EARNED that Tony honey). And Chani, Gaby, and Tasia are NOT to be missed! To top it off, but the privilege of seeing not one but TWO alternates as Seymour was such a gift, Caroline and Amaya were absolutely stellar, and had such unique takes to the role plus getting yo see Caroline’s Seymour debut was fantastic to see!

As to why I saw it 3 times in a short period of time: I knew Six had hit my state pretty heavily the past 2 or so years between both tours and I felt it was safe to assume it wouldn’t come back again for a good while, so I figured if I budgeted correctly, why not get my fill? So glad I did, and from every vantage point I saw it from (front orchestra, mid orchestra, and box seats in the balcony) I caught new things every time! 10/10 would budget for this again!

This film was everything to me. It healed something in me. I remember the last time I saw it in 2015 and knowing I needed to come out to my family that I’m gay and being really afraid of being rejected, and the Witches father’s line of “take it away” really hitting hard along with the Wizard and I’s lyric of “no father is not proud of you” really hitting hard for me while I was in the closet (plot twist, I came out to my family in 2019 and they love my boyfriend today).