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Playing at Vaudeville Theatre till 29 October 2023
Uni mates Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss had the concept for Six The Musical whereas learning of their last 12 months at Cambridge. Soon afterward the present debuted as a part of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival offered by the Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society. Since then, their hit musical has gained a number of awards and performed a number of West End venues, toured the UK and North America, sailed world wide on Norwegian Cruise Lines, had a UK forged recording launched, opened in Australia, New Zealand and on Broadway, had a reside Broadway forged recording launched, carried out on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, is opening shortly in North Korea and has been filmed for a future theatrical launch. It’s protected to say, the Queens of Six are reining supreme all world wide. This 12 months, on the present’s now everlasting West End house, The Vaudeville Theatre is welcoming a model new forged of Queens to court docket. These Queens could have inexperienced sleeves however their lipstick is rebellious pink!
“Remember us from your GCSEs?” Six The Musical is a musical recounting the lives and deaths of the six wives of King Henry VIII offered within the model of a modem pop live performance. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr are reworked into Little Mix-esque queens telling the viewers how they had been divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived to a powerful pop rating. Each Queen competes to be the viewers’s favorite with one tune every about their life, their marriage and deaths by the hands of King Henry VIII.
Our new queens are Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky as Catherine of Aragon, Baylie Carson as Anne Boleyn, Claudia Kariuki as Jane Seymour, Dionne Ward-Anderson as Anna of Cleves, Koko Basigara as Katherine Howard and Roxanne Couch as Catherine Parr. Getting in on the motion had been the fabulous girls in ready band, led by Katy Richardson on Key with Alice Angliss on drums, Emma Jemima on guitar and Kelly Morris on bass.
As our first queen Catherine of Aragon, Rhianne-Louise brings all of the perspective to her tune No Way. Both heart-breaking and defiant, her Catherine of Aragon is totally on level with phenomenal vocals. Bayle Carson as Anne Boleyn was gorgeous. With a ferocious vitality, they made Boleyn fully their very own and the outcomes had been hilarious, recent and fully riveting. Originally from Australia, Carson use their very own accent all through which added a lot authenticity and made this house sick boy from Downunder tear up. Brava! Claudia Kariuki’s Jane Seymour was perfection. Her Heart of Stone stopped the present chilly, bringing the viewers to tears with an astounding rendition of this heartbreaking quantity. Dionne Ward-Anderson as Anna of Cleves was a revelation. Bringing all of the comedian timing and proudly owning the a part of Cleves, Dionne delighted the viewers along with her Get Down leading to a well-deserved mid-show small standing ovation. Koko Basigara as Katherine Howard gave an affecting efficiency and her All You Wanna Do continues to be as catchy and earth-shattering as ever. Roxanne Couch as Catherine Parr was magnificent. Bringing a few turning level within the present, her nuanced efficiency is gorgeous and her vocal on I Don’t Need Your Love was completely breathtaking.
Incorporating the adjustments made for Broadway, Six on the Vaudeville Theatre stays probably the greatest British musicals on the West End. Each new Queen brings a lot to their position, holding the fabric recent and related. I’ve liked each forged I’ve seen within the present, nevertheless, this new forged is well the most effective I’ve seen and I’m already planning return journeys.
A cracking evening out, be sure to catch the enjoyable, riff-tastic, harmony-laden Six on the Vaudeville Theatre.
★★★★★
Reviewed by Stuart James (2023)