The song: “ Get Down,” a 16th-century take on the rap and hip-hop “trope of being popular and bragging about your Ferrari and your Grey Goose,” says Moss French Jerk: Anne Boleyn, who grew up in France, is amusingly the snippiest queen. A scene is not complete without Boleyn hurling at least one insult or jab towards Henry and her fellow queens.

Boyish Short Hair: Anna of Cleves, the most masculine of the six queens, always has the shortest hair. The first three people to portray the queen in particular wore either pixie cuts and buzz cuts during their time with Six. Deliberate Values Dissonance: Katherine (supposedly) doesn't see anything wrong with the fact that she was thirteen to Henry Manox's twenty-three, and a sixteenth-century audience likely wouldn't have either; it gets a 21st-century audience squirming in discomfort. Mate, I don't care note just shut up / You're just being a little— note I wouldn't be such a b— / 'Cos you can't produce an heir! note If you could get it up! The Tudor period, with its “soap opera”-esque political machinations and rich cast of female characters, offered the duo the opportunity to explore contemporary issues like feminism through a historical lens. Though Six prominently features the rhyme historically used to describe the fates of the Tudor king’s queens—“divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived”—the musical moves beyond these reductive one-word summaries to present its subjects as fully realized individuals. “With all of them,” says Moss, “there was so much of interest beyond the moment they got married or divorced.”Katherine Howard: Your lives sounded terrible! And your songs- ( Beat) … REALLY helped to convey that! The original pink alternate costume ◊, with its large cap sleeves and open peplumed skirt, was assigned to Aragon and Howard. On stage, the colour of the costume can either look pink or purple— the latter of which suits Aragon due to its connotations to power and royalty.

Anne Boleyn's impulsiveness and strong opinions. Her hot temper and willingness to insult those that upset her, including Henry, ultimately get her beheaded. Greensleeves" was not actually written about Anne Boleyn. Evidence even suggests that the piece was actually written years after Henry VIII's death, in the Elizabethan era. I’ve gone through a TON of old photos and information about the old casts and compiled them into the slideshows below. I hope y’all enjoy this. :)

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The Alternate Costumes of Six the Musical ; How the Six Alternates Change Their Styling for Each Queen Custom Uniform of Sexy: Anne " Yeah, I'm that sexy" Boleyn and Katherine " ten amongst these threes" Howard have the most revealing outfits of the six queens. Double-Meaning Title: "Don't lose ur head" can represent Anne Boleyn taunting Catherine to not become agitated from her presence, or the fact that Anne's inevitable fate was to literally lose her head to an executioner. Jane Seymour's solo, "Heart of Stone", is hinged on this concept. No matter the trouble, Jane insists that her love will persist. Though Catherine of Aragon’s marriage to Henry lasted 24 years—collectively, his five other marriages spanned just 14 years—she has long been overshadowed by her successors. The daughter of Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, Catherine came to England as the bride of Henry’s older brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales. But Arthur died shortly after the pair’s wedding, leading the Spanish princess to (eventually) marry his heir, Henry.

Signed with a Kiss: Anne Boleyn signs a message to Henry VIII with "XO, Baby!", scandalising the other queens. Betty and Veronica: Catherine of Aragon (initially highly religious, obedient, and loyal) and Jane Seymour (extremely loving and loyal) are both the Betty to Anne Boleyn's Veronica (brash, flirtatious, and self-centered).

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Jane Seymour is initially portrayed as the most innocent and demure of Henry's wives. When Catherine of Aragon tries to spin a sob story about not being able to be in the room when her daughter Mary had a childhood illness, though, she throws a screaming fit about how she wasn't able to be with her son at all due to her dying right after giving birth to him. In earlier versions of the show, she also pulls at Katherine Howard's hair (while screaming) during a group argument.

Abhorrent Admirer: Catherine Parr considers Henry this; she's already in love with another man and doesn't want to be forced to be with another just because he's the King. Adaptational Skimpiness: The queens dress in decidedly more revealing outfits than their real-life counterparts. During the West End cast change on 14 November 2021, every single solo was greeted with at least a minute of applause and cheering. Boleyn: (fake sobbing) Ohh, mistresses, poor y— GET OVER IT! I've had not one, not two, but THREE... miscarriages!Disproportionate Retribution: To say Henry overreacted to the (alleged) adultery of his second and fifth wives is a vast understatement. This is why much of history remembers him as The Bluebeard. I’ll point out a few of the different hairstyles here, but for the most part, I plan to just talk about the different elements of the alternate costumes - which queens they came from, etc. Anna of Cleves: But I didn't look as good as I did in my pic. Funny how we all discuss that, but never Henry's little— Foreshadowing: During the queens' introduction, Parr says, "The winning contestant was the most protest-tant! ( Beat) Protestant." She would be the first to protest against the entire competition. However, it's revealed that the queens faked the competition in the first place, as a form of protest against the public version of their story and the patriarchal tendency to pit women against each other. That means, in a way, all of them were protestant contestants, and "all [became] the leading lady". Makeover Fairy: The "Haus of Holbein" troupe acts as this, prettying up Anna of Cleves for her Holbein portrait. They did such a good job, in fact, that Henry allegedly became disappointed with the queen's actual looks.