Henry VIII's Wives on Stage: Six - The Musical

Not Just the Tudors

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Since its first outing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017, the stage musical Six has become a worldwide theatre sensation. In it, the six wives of Henry VIII are re-imagined as a girl band, competing to decide who will lead the group based on how much they suffered while married to Henry.

Six was created by two Cambridge undergrads, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, while they were studying for their final exams. In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to them, to discover the story of how they brought Henry VIII's six wives out from under their husband's shadow and gave each of them their moment in the spotlight.

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0:00.0	Divorced.
0:01.0	Beheaded.
0:04.0	Died.
0:07.0	Divorced.
0:10.0	Beheaded.
0:12.0	Divorced.
0:22.0	Beheaded.
0:24.0	Survived.
0:27.0	It began at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and it's now been on Broadway, the West End,
0:35.1	in Sydney, on tour and even on cruise ships.
0:38.6	This is the definition of a smash hit and the subject is history.
0:43.6	The six wives of Henry VIII reimagined.
0:47.0	The six queens of Henry VIII have gathered posthumously and they're on a kind of girl group reunion
0:52.2	tour and it's a brilliant tour.
0:55.0	It's energetic, it's hilarious and it's crazy.
0:58.8	It is of course six the musical.
1:01.4	Divorced.
1:02.4	Beheaded.
1:03.4	Live.
1:04.4	It's delighted to be joined today by its writers, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow to explore how they
1:09.9	created a musical about some of the most famous women in history.
1:20.4	Well it is a complete delight to speak to you.
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