‘Six: The Musical Live!’-New “Six Chicks” In Town- Fabulous, At That

Good afternoon, folks!

As a return to my traditional blogging method, I am talking about “Six: The Musical.”It’s a fusion of musical and dark comedy about Henry VIII’s six wives-Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour (not the actress), Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr, played by Jarnéia Richard-Noel, Millie O’Connell, Natalie Paris, Alexia McIntosh, Aimie Atkinson, and Maiya Quansah-Breed, respectively.

I went to see the musical at one of my AMC Theatre establishments without knowing much about what it was. All I knew was it was musical on Broadway that I could see for free thanks to my job. But I was amazed at the end result.

The six chicks (I call them that based on 13 Going on 30) were fabulous. It was fun how they had chemistry arguing like girls gossiping over who got the worst of it married to Henry. I’ve got to learn the soundtrack, but the very funny parts to me included O’Connell’s Anne Boleyn’s singing “Don’t Lose Ur Head” and McIntosh’s Anna of Cleeves’ “Get Down”, specifically the part where Anna sang “I’m queen of the castle. Get down, you dirty rascal.

The ladies poured a lot of heart, humor, emotion, and song into their characters, and like “Hamilton” brought traumatic historical moments to my attention in a lovely musical manner. I commend their work alongside the crew and I look forward to adding them to my music playlist.

Check out “Six: The Musical Live” in theatres this weekend if you get a chance, or try winning the Broadway lottery!

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