Premiering on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017, SIX the Musical has gone on to turn into a phenomenon around the globe, at the moment taking part in in London, on Broadway, Chicago, and on tour round Australia/New Zealand and the UK. The London manufacturing started on the Arts Theatre earlier than quickly transferring to the Lyric Theatre after lockdown. The present has now settled in its new house, the Vaudeville Theatre.
The 75 minute pop live performance (written by two younger college students Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss) takes a historic take a look at Henry VIII’s six wives, with every of them having the chance to say why they assume that they had the worst marriage. The winner will get to be the lead singer of the band!
With an all-female on-stage band and all-female forged, Six the Musical actually is a present about feminine empowerment. Reclaiming their her-story and understanding that nobody would even bear in mind who Henry was, if not for them.
Playing their last few reveals earlier than a model new forged start performances subsequent week had been Jarnéia Richard-Noel (Catherine of Aragon), Courtney Bowman (Anne Boleyn), Collette Guitart (Jane Seymour), Cherelle Jay (Anna of Cleves), Sophie Isaacs (Katherine Howard) Hana Stewart (Catherine Parr).
As a forged, it truly is an ensemble piece with everybody having equal stage time and recognising understudies as a part of the prolonged band. Playing 9 reveals per week, at any given efficiency you might even see any forged member as they actually combine it up – however they’re all equally fierce.
The songs are infectious. From the opening numbers ‘Ex Wives’ and ‘No Way’, the viewers is aware of inside seconds of the music beginning that they’re in for a enjoyable, loud and lady energy present. From the tender ‘Heart Of Stone’, superbly sung by Hana Stewart to the techo-rave group quantity ‘Haus of Holbein’, each tune is a banger!
The present feels prefer it’s the perfect it’s ever been in its new house on the Vaudeville Theatre and when you haven’t seen it but then you definately actually are lacking out on an incredible present.
★★★★★
Reviewed by West End Wilma