Six the Musical joyously blends English Tudor history with contemporary female pop and boasts inspired, witty writing

Take six queens. Divide by the eighth King Henry. Multiply by 90 minutes of inspired, witty writing, stellar composition, and sparkling design.

Saturday night in northern Alberta, a jubilant Edmonton audience – where the show is holding a pre-Broadway run at the Citadel prior to opening in New York in February – shook off a November blizzard and dove into the queens ofWhen we meet them at the top of the show, Henry VIII’s six wives, dressed in costumes that are a cross between Tudor England and a Beyoncé video before she discovered politics, they immediately fall into a competition for the saddest wife’s life of all of Henry’s...

Created by British twentysomethings Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss for the Edinburgh Fringe, turned into a huge hit in London, from the moment the lights go down, it explodes out at the audience. It features an all-female cast and four-piece band that deliver a smart, hugely entertaining retelling of male mythology – a herstory – of the lives of each of the wives of the infamous king.

In the end, there’s a feminist awakening moment, where they realize that the competition they have constructed is just another misogynist trope that they’ve inflicted on themselves. It’s a smart, self-aware turn that kind of flattens out the show’s final moments. My head liked it, but at the end of 90 brilliantly funny and moving minutes of a musical that meets the current contemporary moment head on, it could use a tweak.

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