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A little (kind of) speculation post on the Boleyn Tour 2.0.

What we know:

They are scheduled to start on April 16th and dates are currently booking through May 2025, with a gap between July 28th and November 12th. Considering most venues have announced their 2024-25 seasons, it doesn't look like we'll get that many more stops between that gap.

The principal cast is made up of returnees, with 3 of those being immediate returns (4 if you count Adriana).

Aryn mentioned on live today that she's staying until July 28th, which is the last show before the gap.

My guess:

With the news of Jana Larell Glover joining Broadway (rightfully so!), that leads us to fun cover possibilities! Sierra was confirmed as A/C/H when she joined, and Jenny was briefly listed as A/B/S on her resume but has since been removed. Jessie's covers have not been confirmed, and Jana's tour covers are A/C/P, but will likely change as there cannot be 3 Aragon's. Here are all the cover possibilities listed out in order of most to least likely (explanations below before you get excited):

The first 2 remain consistent with the current Broadway system - only 1 overlapping cover with each alternate, and also assuming Jenny's covers remain A/B/S. This would confirm both Jessie and Jana as Parr, and for Option A I formed my own opinions on Jessie fitting Seymour and Jana fitting Boleyn (also both Marilyn and Nicole originally covered A/C/P and later covered Boleyn). Option B is if the opposite happens with Boleyn and Seymour.

The third option is the only option if they go with the Tour system - 0, 1, and 2 overlapping covers with each alternate, and also assuming Jenny's covers remain A/B/S.

The last 2 options are where things get funky. As mentioned before, Jenny's covers were briefly listed on her resume and were later removed. It's most likely that this was just for professionalism, as North American alternates don't have their covers named in their official titles (whereas in the UK they do), but let's have fun and explore the possibility that her covers changed with the addition of Jana. These 2 options are in the event that Jana keeps her covers as A/C/P (which would automatically fall in the Tour system as Sierra shares A/C), leaving Jenny and Jessie being either B/S/P or B/S/H!

Out of the 16 former full-time alts, 7 have become principals in some form. Here is what I would give the remaining 9!

Keirsten Nicole Hodgens: Seymour Ayla Ciccone-Burton: Boleyn Holli' Conway: Howard Aubrey Matalon: Howard Erin Ramirez: Boleyn Cecilia Snow: Seymour Aryn Bohannon: Howard Jana Larell Glover: Cleves Taylor Pearlstein: Parr

If you need a refresher, here are the 7 that have happened!

Six alternate system with the alternates acting more as understudies. Each alternate has a priorty track and a secondary track. Using the times when there were 6 alternates on Broadway as examples (I know it'd be simpler to use one example but I wrote this a long time ago and couldn't bring myself to taking out the 1.5 cast it's just too perfect).

Alternate Aragon/Howard: Holli' Conway

Alternate Boleyn/Cleves: Ayla Ciccone-Burton

Alternate Seymour/Boleyn: Mallory Maedke

Alternate Cleves/Aragon: Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert

Alternate Howard/Parr: Courtney Mack

Alternate Parr/Seymour: Keirsten Hodgens

Alternate Aragon/Howard: Cassie Silva

Alternate Boleyn/Cleves: Ayla Ciccone-Burton

Alternate Seymour/Parr: Wesley Carpenter

Alternate Cleves/Aragon: Sierra Fermin

Alternate Howard/Boleyn: Aubrey Matalon

New year means new opportunities for chaos for Six! I got a lot of great reviews from my Boleyn Tour update post, so I thought I'd do another one for what we know about Six going into 2024 - by production!

West End

Current cast is contracted until February 2025, so no major cast change this year

Natalie Pilkington is set to return as Universal Swing after being away for Panto

So far, no change in the alternate system (no second/third covers or alt costumes), but that very well could change

Broadway

Current cast is contracted for a year, so likely a December cast change again

The remaining 2.0 alternates (Ayla, Aubrey, & Kristina) will leave on March 4th

It is unclear whether or not the 3 new alternates will join before or after the current alternates leave

Cassie will likely leave before the Broadway cast change, similar to Marilyn

The first sing-a-long will be on March 6th!

UK Tour

Cast change will occur around July

Shows are currently booked through 28 September

The current cast will perform in Germany & Switzerland from March to April

North American (Boleyn) Tour

Cast change will occur on April 14th (new cast starts April 16th), Adriana (and Wesley and possibly Cassie) will also be staying

Shows are currently booked through July 28th

Australia

A new Australia (and potentially Australasian) Tour will begin in August 2024.

Canada

It is unclear how long the Canadian Production will run, but the cast says they are contracted for a year. So we may or may not have a cast change, depending on if they get an extension or not

Maggie Lacasse (Seymour) is expected to return in January or February

NCL Bliss & Breakaway

Both cruises are on their final casts: Bliss 7.0 & Breakaway 6.0

Bliss will close around February 24th

Breakaway will close around January 26th

very grateful to see the show & people that bring me so much joy so many times. here's to another year of new cities, new queens, and new debuts :)

This is a part-prediction, part-bingo, part-want, part-far-fetched-ideas-to-see-if-they-magically-become-true list of things I have in mind for Six in 2024. Please reblog and add your own let's be chaotic together. Enjoy:

UK Tour ends or gets a revamp

A more permanent crossover between Canada and the US productions (i.e. universal alts somehow cover in Canada officially)

Courtney Mack returns (bonus points if she debuts a 4th role)

Another cruise member debuts in a land production

A cancelled debut finally happens (i.e. Carly Mercedes Dyer, Shantel Cribbs, original Breakaway 2.0)

A change in the North American alternate system

Someone joins a production with little-to-no announcement

A new or majorly updated costume

Principal-to-alternate pipeline but on land

New US sit-down production (bonus points if it's Los Angeles) ((extra bonus points if it's majority professional debuts/recent grads cast)

Something with Natalie Pilkington or the Harriets

An original WE or BW cast member returns

New weird production (i.e. Amusement park production)

Another Bliss Seymour comes to land (after Caitlin, Gabriella, and now Wesley)

Bizzare emergency cover

Entirely new cast for UK Tour, Boleyn Tour, or Broadway

Canada extends and gets a cast change

All alternate show on Broadway

(broadway 3.0/aragon tour with ayla!boleyn & kristina!parr)

Sierra covers A/C/H

Wesley covers B/S/H/P

Ayla, Aubrey, and Kristina are leaving March 4th