Six the Musical - Arts / Lyric / Vaudeville

I loved Six and the costumes but how can it win best costume against Fly Davis, Caroline, or Change
Toni-Leslie James, Paradise Square
William Ivey Long, Diana, The Musical
Santo Loquasto, The Music Man
Gabriella Slade, Six: The Musical – WINNER!
Paul Tazewell, MJ?

Perhaps you’re on to something Diana and MJ recreations and TMM man tried and tested design. 

I loved Caroline or Change and the innovation there. I also loved the Diana quick change reveals. 

I hated Jane Seymour oversized little mermaid seashells but overall loved Six design. 

After calling the Vaudeville their “forever home” all the time for the past year, funny.

Is anyone going to the Hampton Court Palace show tomorrow? I’m interested to see if there’s any changes to the script.

Kenny Wax has been pretty loyal to Nica Burns and she to him, and they seem to work well together, so I'd be surprised if he / Six left Nimax. Although he is probably buoyed up by the Tony success for the show.

Money talks and they could absolutely be selling more tickets in a bigger house right now

Might be an unpopular opinion on here but I think Six is massively over-rated.

My 14 year old loves it, and I’ve seen the show in the West End and on tour with various very talented casts. But I find the whole production a bit meh and a bit cringe. They must be raking it - really really short shows, super low budget set, no costume changes, tiny group of musicians. I always feel a bit short changed when I have paid for us to see the show.

I like it BECAUSE it’s short & punchy and I can do a 2 show day and still be back on the M4 for 9.30!

The fact that this won a Tony for the best score beating A Strange Loop was inexplicable to me. The score for Six,rather like the show itself , is entertaining to a point, but rather slight and quite derivative in my opinion. I don’t understand all the love for it really.

A quick one about last night at Hampton Court Palace

On arriving it was like a comic book convention with the amount of people dressed up (as the queens) or in some sort of Six merch, they had a merch stall set out with some special edition Hampton Court stuff which seemed to be going down well with the fans.

Onto the gig itself as I said in a previous post I was keeping an open mind, I was sat in block d one of the side blocks but had a good side view of the stage despite the height, people in row a of all blocks couldn't see a thing and were trying to move throughout (think front row limited leg room theatre seat with a concert height stage). I am not going to lie it was like being at a Justin Bieber (or whoever the young teens are into these days) concert at times with the screaming from the fans! Most songs were clapped along with and people dancing along with full moves while remaining seated, which was a strange experience.

No changes to the show itself apart from the usual place name check change and there were a couple of references to the Palace in Richmond which I can't remember being used in the theatre production, and the cast not rushing to deliver the next lines so the one liners etc... worked so much better.

The sound was of course louder than the theatre and was so clear you could hear everything, lighting could have been better and at times the stage looked in darkness (it wasn't) and whichever one was singing the follow spot lost them at times.

Now in previous posts I have been critical about the production using the original cast for all these extra things and to be honest I don't see why they are put on such a pedestal, yes they were good but no different to other casts I have seen. The stand out for me was Natalie Paris, having never come across anything she has been in before she was very impressive. Aimie Atkinson was a little disappointing (and I shouldn't have read that post about her intake of breath before every line in the Pretty Woman Thread). As I said I was in one of the side blocks and I have to say they didn't make use of the massive stage they had, I found it a very narrow performance and no use of the wings of the stage in fact they never really acknowledged anyone to the sides and sang and did everything down the middle even the bows never made it outside of that small middle section.

It was an enjoyable night and if you have an extra few £'s to spare go tonight as you will have fun but to be honest for me at that price I would have preferred to have gone to the theatre 3 times (on Rush Tickets) to see it (or other things) instead of that. And lastly nothing I saw changed my mind on why these Original Queens are held up so highly by the fans!

Yes!


I read your post a while ago about that and that was in my head when she rapped those lines which made me chuckle!