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Sabrina Carpenter took Halloween on the road this year as she put on her Short n’ Sweet Tour at Madison Square GardenThe pop star took the stage on Oct. 31 wearing three iconic costumes: Wonder Woman, Barbie and Wilma FlintstoneCarpenter’s second leg of her popular tour, featuring songs from Short n’ Sweet and Man’s Best Friend, started in Pittsburgh on Oct. 23

Sabrina Carpenter celebrated Halloween on Pretty Girl Avenue this year.

The singer, 26, brought spooky season to the stage once again during her Short n’ Sweet Tour stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Oct. 31.

During her show, the Man’s Best Friend singer serenaded the crowd with her hit single, “Manchild,” as she stepped out in a Wonder Woman costume. She also sang the first track from her 2024 album, Short ‘n Sweet, “Taste,” while she rocked the superhero look, which became so viral that Wonder Woman herself, Lynda Carter, shared her sweet reaction to the tribute.

“I see this little argument about Wonder Woman being brunette…Reminder! Wonder Woman is within all of us, and sometimes, she has blonde hair like @SabrinaAnnLynn,” she wrote on X on Nov. 1.

But her tribute to iconic movie characters didn’t stop there. Carpenter then arrived on stage as Barbie, wearing Margot Robbie’s memorable hot-pink cowgirl outfit from the 2023 film. The singer aptly covered Aqua’s “Barbie Girl.” She also performed her 2023 hit “Feather” in her bright costume.

She ended her rotation of costumes by dressing up as Wilma Flintstone as seen in a fan video shared to X. Instead of wearing Wilma’s exact look, Carpenter took the silhouette of the cartoon character’s dress and used the orange-and-black pattern from her husband Fred Flintstone’s signature look.

As the cartoon character, she sang “Please, Please, Please,” and then made her “Juno” arrest with a surprise guest: Drew Barrymore as Scream’s Ghostface.

Once the show wrapped, Carpenter stepped out for a New York night with Saturday Night Live star Veronika Slowikowska. The two coordinated in T-shirt dresses decorated with animal graphics and over-the-knee boots for a party held at Chez Margaux.

Sabrina Carpenter and Veronika Slowikowska step out for a Halloween party in New York City.

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Last year, the Grammy winner performed in Dallas on the holiday and showed out in two costumes that were part inspired by pop culture’s iconic figures and part influenced by her own pin-up wardrobe.

She opened the show in a Playboy Bunny look complete with bunny ears and a tux-inspired bodysuit topped with a furry bunny tail. She then slipped into a Tinkerbell outfit made out of fake wings and a sparkly green halter dress.

Later in the night, she went the extra mile with a third outfit change, this time sliding into a look that dreams are made out. In a TikTok video shared on the night after Halloween, Carpenter revealed her transformation into Hilary Duff’s Lizzie McGuire from the eponymous film.

Carpenter went all out, recreating the famous scene on the app with Taylor Dayne’s 2003 song “Supermodel,” a ginormous igloo dress and her friend Paloma as Miss Ungermeyer.

Carpenter kicked off the second leg of her sold-out tour in Pittsburgh on Oct. 23. She continued a couple of her traditions, including the unveiling of her bodysuits for the show’s opening and “arresting” a famous star in the crowd before singing “Juno.”

Videos from the concert showed Gigi Hadid receiving her pink fuzzy cuffs as Carpenter jokingly condemned her for being a “gorgeous girl.” After the show, the Guest in Residence founder reacted to her jumbotron moment on her Instagram Stories, writing “Guilty as charged.”

Sabrina Carpenter performing on the Short n’ Sweet Tour at Barclays Center on September 30, 2024.

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Before hitting the road, Carpenter made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut on Oct. 18. She performed new hits “Manchild” and “Nobody’s Son,” which received a bit of blowback from singer Rina Sawayama, who urged Carpenter’s creative team to show “respect” for Japanese culture after it was interpreted in the performance.

In her opening monologue, the “Bed Chem” singer playfully addressed the backlash she got for the cover art of her latest album, Man’s Best Friend.

“Some people got a little freaked out by the cover,” she began. “I’m not sure why? It was just this: me on all fours, with an unseen figure pulling my hair. But what people don’t realize is that’s just how they cropped it.”

“If you zoom out, it’s clearly a picture from the 50th anniversary special of Bowen [Yang] helping me up by the hair, after Martin Short shoved me out of the buffet line, saying something like, ‘Daddy needs his mini quiche,’ ” she then joked.

Carpenter has been on SNL two previous times: in October 2024 as a musical guest and as a guest star this February in a sketch with Pedro Pascal for the show’s 50th anniversary special.