Six has just extended its reign in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre with more than 152,000 seats now on sale.
Winner of more than 35 international awards, Six tells the story of Henry VIII’s wives through song, and covers stories of love and loss from the mouths of the women who were married to the former monarch.
Producer Kenny Wax said: “We’re absolutely delighted to be extending our reign in London, providing audiences with even more opportunities to get down with our incredible queens and live band until May 2025.”
It’s said that the Tudor Wives’ lives are revisited as they turn back the clock and take to the stage to reclaim their crowns and retell their stories. Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves, Howard and Parr are all backed by an on-stage band.
The current 2023-24 company consists of Nikki Bentley as Catherine of Aragon, Thao Therese Nguyen as Anne Boleyn, Kayleigh McKnight as Jane Seymour, Reca Oakley as Anna of Cleves, Inez Budd as Katherine Howard and Janiq Charles as Catherine Parr.
The show’s 2018 debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe hastened its West End transfer in January 2019 to the Arts Theatre. In 2020, Six transferred for a short West End season to the Lyric Theatre before opening at what Nica Burns the theatre owner calls its ‘forever home’, the Vaudeville Theatre in November 2021.
The production recently released an exclusive performance, in collaboration with Buckingham Palace, of a new arrangement of Haus of Holbein, filmed at The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, in front of the artist’s works, including portraits of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Henry VIII.
Since its debut in 2018, the show has gone on to play on Broadway, while also touring the likes of Germany, Switzerland, Italy and north America.
Groups of ten or more qualify for discounted tickets to certain shows. For more information go to sixthemusical.com/london.
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