Unquestionably the British musical hit of the last decade, Six has been a remarkable homegrown success story, a short, sassy, electro-pop inflected burst of attitude by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss that sees the six wives of Henry VIII face off against each other in an extremely entertaining diva-off.
Since debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 in its original student production incarnation, it has gone on to remarkable things, taking the West End by storm, then Broadway – it’s incredible to think that our former monarch’s deranged love life is still sparking this level of discourse. And now it’s going global, or at least it could do: a feature film of Six wouldn’t really make sense as it doesn’t really have a plot (it would still basically be a concert), but coming to cinemas from Easter is a specially filmed performance, recorded at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Filmed last year, it marks a special reunion for the six original West End queens – that’s Jarnéia Richard-Noel (Catherine of Aragon), Millie O'Connell (Anne Boleyn), Natalie Paris (Jane Seymour), Alexia McIntosh (Anna of Cleves), Aimie Atkinson (Katherine Howard) and Maiya Quansah-Breed (Catherine Parr).
Distributed by Universal Pictures, it will hit cinemas from April 6 – if it’s anything like the average filmed theatre release you can expect it to keep popping up on screens every now and then for the next several months or even years rather than simply receiving a single push.
Six the Musical hits cinemas from Apr 6, and is booking at the Vaudeville until Nov 16. Book tickets to see it live here.
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