![]() ![]() And when Six is at its best, the pairing of each queen to her given musical style (all dreamed up by co-writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss as seniors at Cambridge Moss also co-directs with Jamie Armitage) feels fresh and witty and exhilarating. One by one, the queens take the stage in a solo song, each wife channeling a different modern pop act as she makes the case that her trauma was the worst trauma. Given that there are two separate “beheadeds” in that group and only one “survived,” the competition is stiff. But the concert also doubles as a contest, with each queen facing off to see who had the worst time as Henry’s wife. ![]() The six ill-fated wives of King Henry VIII of England (divorced, beheaded, died divorced, beheaded, survived) are hosting a pop concert. Still, Six has a neat, eye-catching premise and a breezy confidence that seems to say, “Don’t worry about it too much, it’s fun!” every time the details stop making sense. I’m more dazzled by the spectacle now than I was then, but less inclined to forgive the disarray. But I found myself just as bothered by Six’s messiness in 2021 as I was in 2020, and if anything time has made me more vengeful. Is that enough to make audiences overlook the utter mess Six makes of its attempts at feminism? Judging by the rapturous reception among my fellow theatergoers at Saturday’s press preview, the answer is likely yes. This show can deliver a blast of the energy and exuberance that Broadway at its best excels at, the energy that everyone in that theater has palpably longed for over the past 19 months. The spectacle and the glitz of Broadway is back at last, and joyous, messy Six has joined the party. “Remember us from PBS?” demanded Katherine of Aragon, and a whole horde of people in the theater - teenage girls in glittery princess dresses and tiaras, sober-suited bankers, cynical-eyed millennials in jeans - screamed back in response. By the time Six reopened for rehearsal in August 2021, all the jewel-toned plastic-and-foil costumes had deteriorated so much that they had to be rebuilt.įinally, after more than a year of delay, Six at last had its official opening on Sunday, October 3, before a masked, vaccinated audience. Then, just hours before curtain, Broadway shut its doors. On March 12, 2020, the giddy new pop musical Six - about the six wives of Henry VIII, reimagined as a glam pop-ballad-belting girl group - was set to open on Broadway in a transfer from London. ![]()
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