Sabrina Carpenter dresses as Playboy bunny, Sandy from ‘Grease’ for concert

Friendship ended with Short n’ Sweet trip. Now Short and creepy tour is our best friend.

Sabrina Carpenter brought the haunt to the Dallas stop of hers Short n’ Sweet tour on Wednesday night, dressed in an array of costumes from iconic movies and pulling off spooky Halloween gags left and right.

It all started with Carpenter taking the stage in a towel, which she torn off to reveal a black, sequined Playboy bunny costume. In one behind the scenes TikTok posted on Carpenter’s official account the following day, the “Please, Please, Please” singer’s lip-synced dialogue from the 2008 Anna Faris comedy The rabbit of the house. “Oh hell no, no, those girls are all boobs and no brains,” Carpenter vamped. “I’m too busy in a library reading books with dust on them.”

She wore the outfit on stage at the American Airlines Center to perform a medley of songs from her latest album, Short n’ Sweetincluding “Bed Chem.” Carpenter begins the performance of the song by having her microphone lowered from the rafters, pausing just above where her arms can reach in a play on her small stature. This time the microphone was lowered into the claws of a giant black spidercausing her a bit of playful anxiety.

The performance of “Bed Chem” developed into a horrifying one chainsaw murder scene glimpsed from the other side of a velvet curtain, ends with a shot The carpenter lying at rest on a heart-shaped bed next to a skeleton.

Eagle-eyed fans noticed, too a little bit of script sewn into Carpenter’s tights: “Short n’ Spooky.”

For tonight’s performance of “Espresso” — the undisputed song of the summer that finally elevated Carpenter from your favorite pop star’s favorite pop star to everyone’s favorite pop star — she dressed as Tinkerbell. Carpenter appeared at the top of a grand staircase in a lime green mini dress with a recognizable scalloped hem, with a pair of fairy wings as she rhapsodized about “working late because I’m a singer.”

Carpenter has built a number of gags into it Short n’ Sweet ride that changes at each stop, a practice she first began Emails I can’t send tour by singing a different double-entendre-laden outro to her song “Nonsense” every night. In the middle of new song “Juno,” Carpenter strikes what fans call a “position,” a winking reference to the line she sings while posing: “Have you ever tried this one?”

While still dressed as Tinkerbell, Carpenter shuffled to the end of the stage’s runway and shouted, “Boo!” and concertgoers reacted in mock horror as the heart-shaped end of the runway lifted her off the ground.

Carpenter clearly knows his aesthetic references and finally steps onto the stage in the form of one of his most influential forebears: Olivia Newton-John in Fat. She performed Emails I can’t send hit “Feather” in skin-tight black “bad girl” jumpsuit Newton-John takes on the film in late 1978 and appeared to be a spitting image of the late vocalist.

After a round of spin the bottle (another nightly gag that determines which cover Carpenter will perform), it was decided that Carpenter would perform a touching rendering by Newton-Johns Fat torch song “Hopelessly Devoted to You.” Thursday she has posted a behind-the-scenes video of the outfit to TikTok, lip-syncing one of Newton-John’s infamous lines from the film: “Tell me about it, stud.”

More Halloween-themed tricks and treats included the crew wearing blond carpenter-esque wigs backstage, the railing of the grand staircase is covered in an eerie spider web, and the singer performing “Slim Pickins” surrounded by pumpkins, black cats and other paranormal paraphernalia.

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