The stage lights up and six women immediately start arguing with each other over who led the most tragic life of all. But as they tell their own stories, they all come to realise it’s better to stand together and reclaim their individual identities. We all remember them from our GCSEs – but this is the tale of the six wives of Henry VIII like we’ve never heard before.
There’s been a lot of buzz around SIX in recent years, so I was very excited when I got the chance to watch the musical at The Lowry on August 13. READ MORE: MediaCity's free waterside cinema is showing Barbie, Mean Girls, Top Gun and more this school holidays The story follows the six wives of Henry VIII as they take to the mic to tell their own personal experiences of how the former King mistreated them. The 80-minute musical has no interval and feels like a pop concert, the six Queens being like the Tudor equivalent of the Spice Girls.
Remixing 500 years of historical heartbreak into a celebration of girl power, the show has become a global success – and I can totally understand the hype. The audience was wowed (Image: Pamela Raith Photography) The multi award-winning musical, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, has returned to The Lowry for a sell-out three-week summer season with only standing tickets now available. Opening the show this week, cast members included Nicole Louise Lewis as Catherine of Aragon, Laura Dawn Pyatt as Anne Boleyn, Erin Caldwell as Jane Seymour, Kenedy Small as Anna of .