SIX on Broadway Tickets

By: Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
Director: Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage
Producer: Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes, George Stiles and Kevin McCollum
Cast list: Najah Hetsberger (as Catherine of Aragon), Gianna Yanelli (as Anne Boleyn), Kelsie Watts (as Jane Seymour), Krystal Hernandez (as Anna of Cleves), Kay Sibal (as Katherine Howard), Taylor Marie Daniel (as Catherine Parr)
Design: Emma Bailey
Lighting: Tim Deiling
Costume: Gabriella Slade
Choreography: Carrie-Anne Ingrouille
Sound: Paul Gatehouse
Other info: Orchestrations by Tom Curran, music supervision and vocal arrangements by Joe Beighton

King Henry VIII was a Tudor monarch, ruling over England for nearly 40 years. During his time on the throne, he broke away from the Catholic Church and, even more famously, had six wives. While history lessons have taught us all about Henry VIII, they often spend little time on the wives, focusing mostly on how they died or else got rejected.

In the SIX musical, the Queens retell their marriage stories through song. Pitting themselves against one another, each wife takes to the mic to see who had it worst, and the winner gets to lead their girl group. But they realize that constant arguing and pettiness isn’t needed — women supporting women are stronger than any king. Summing up centuries of history into 80 minutes of theatre, the SIX queens fix each other's crowns while changing your view on Tudor history.

SIX on Broadway includes plenty of tongue-in-cheek jokes about their deaths and divorces, but it also includes firsthand accounts from the women themselves about what their lives, personalities, and talents are independent of Henry. You won’t get that in the history books — only on the Broadway stage. With a women-only cast (the Queens) and band (the Ladies in Waiting), SIX on Broadway puts female power and girlbosses on the map.

The show came out of humble beginnings in England, when creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss wrote it during their last year at Cambridge University. At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, SIX caught the attention of producers, and it went on to tour the U.K. and get a five-time Olivier Award-nominated run in London’s West End. The show went on to play Australia and tour the U.S., and SIX continues to reign on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

In 2022, SIX on Broadway got eight Tony nominations, including Best Musical. The show won for Best Original Score and Best Costume Design, for Gabriella Slade’s Tudor-chic-meets-glitzy-popstar designs.

What to watch for

• Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss weren’t the only people from the SIX team that first joined forces at the University of Cambridge. They met the musical director and lighting designer there, too.
• SIX is such a short musical because it was written for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which has a time limit for productions. When SIX premiered there in 2018, 10,000 people saw the show in one month.
• There’s a longstanding myth that Henry VIII wrote the English folk song “Greensleeves” for Anne Boleyn. It’s likely false, but the song is referenced in some of Anne’s SIX lyrics, and you’ll hear its melody played on the harpsichord when you walk into the theatre.
• The Queens wear different accessories depending on their fate. The divorced women both wear spiked headbands, and the beheaded ones wear chokers.
• Each wife leads her own musical number, but they come together for a techno rave group number, “Haus of Holbein.” See the queens dance in their neon ruff collars and glasses and get ready to “Get Down” with Anna of Cleves right afterward.
• Since the London SIX cast recording was released on Spotify in 2019, the songs have been streamed worldwide over 100 million times. In 2022, a recording of the show’s opening night performance on Broadway was released as a live album, further dominating SIX’s reign over music streaming. Have you listened to the SIX albums?