#chiara assetta

[lightleckrereins]

The silver Howard ponytail is real!! It’s everything we ever dreamed of!!

Its beautiful. Kinda hoping we get more alt color ponytails now.

[dontbebittah]

The History of Swingo, Part 6: The Aussies 

(Karis Oka performing as Anna of Cleves. Photographed by @daynaransleyphoto on Instagram.)

(7) Karis Oka was one of three swings in the first and second Australia tour casts and wore the black alt costume with Howard skirt and pants variations. She was the first of the three to complete Swingo, although her final debut as Seymour was also the only time she played the role. While the AUS swings had no formal cover order, Karis seems to have been the priority cover for Boleyn and Howard. Since leaving Six, Karis has played Ocean in Ride the Cyclone.

Days to complete Swingo: 701 (single production: 24, AUS 2.0)

Date completed: January 29th, 2022

Performance stats:

Fun Fact: If only counting debuts in a single production, Karis holds the record for fastest Swingo with only 24 days from first to last debut in the 2nd AUS tour. (Grace Mouat still holds the record for fastest overall.)

(Shannen Alyce Quan as Catherine Parr. Photographed by @larajanephotography on Instagram.)

(9) Shannen Alyce Quan was the second swing to complete Swingo in the first and second Australia tours. They wore the teal alt costume with Seymour and Boleyn skirts as their only variations, and she is still the only performer to have worn a Boleyn skirt for a role other than Boleyn- she also wore it for Cleves and Howard. Shannen has been in a variety of productions since their time with Six, most recently playing Jo in Little Women.

Days to complete Swingo: 763 (single production: 74, AUS 2.0)

Date completed: March 18th, 2022

Performance stats: 

Fun Fact: Shannen and Karis were in the same production of Fangirls in 2021 before the second tour began, Karis as Edna and Shannen as a swing.

(Chiara Assetta as Catherine of Aragon. Photographed by @daynaransleyphoto on Instagram.)

(12) Chiara Assetta joined as the third swing in the second (post-COVID) Australia tour production and wore the orange alternate costume. She is the only person to have worn a different (non-pants) variation of the orange alt costume- she wore shorts for every role. While she was given two alt variations like the other swings, she never performed in the pants variation and the mystery of Chiara’s missing orange pants haunts the fandom to this day. Chiara has returned for the 2024-25 AUS tour in the silver swing costume!

Days to complete Swingo: 75

Date completed: March 29, 2022

Performance stats (note: AUS 3.0 is an active production, so these stats are only accurate as of 9/26/24):

Fun Fact: Chiara became the first swing/alternate to perform in a Howard ponytail dyed their alt costume color in the AUS 3.0 production. While there are behind-the-scenes pictures of Elizabeth Walker (Bliss 1.0 swing) with a teal ponytail, she never performed in it.

[six-costume-refs]

Thoughts on Chiara’s Howard wig?

I love it! They’d toyed around with the alt-colored ponytails way back for Breakaway 1.0 but it never actually made it to the stage, so very excited to see it on stage and also a very unexpected surprise for the Australian Tour to get that. But I’ve always thought it was a really cute, fun detail, so I’m really excited about it. I always assumed that they didn’t do it because the alt colors can be difficult to get to work with different hair colors (particularly silver) + because it means the hairpiece can’t be reused for other tracks, but in this case the silver looks great + it seems like they don’t care about the second. So all around I’m quite happy!

[sixthemusicalextras]

@/caitlinbridgephotography, @/annastreet_, and @/chels.eadawson on Instagram, 16 August 2024

[sixaustralia]

Chiara Howard debut! We get to see the silver hair in action!

[carbonbeef]

Per Chiara’s story, I guess this is the final nail in the coffin for the black alternate costume

[thequeendomeffect-noah]

LONG LIVE THE ALT COSTUMES!!

Super excited to see Loren, Chelsea, Chiara (in BLACK???), and Cristina return alongside our (funny enough) six new Australia queens!!! (Especially Cristina, we’ll finally get to see her debut the other queens!!)

I know everyone’s been saying this but I just know the costume situation is gonna be real interesting this time around. Very excited to see everyone in the updated costumes and hairstyles (including some shiny new alt costume variations, perhaps? 👀).

23-24 Six has been blessing us with some wild casts. 😭

[unwrittenemmy]

Day two hundred and eighty three of posting every six queen

Chiara Assetta as Jane Seymour