'It's going to be unlike anything anybody has seen,' said one actress.
The award-winning Broadway smash hit, SIX, is coming to the Kimmel Cultural Campus next week for a three-week run.The show highlights the six wives of Henry the VIII. And while there's historical context, this 16th-century story is remixed in a way that critics say "reigns supreme."
Their characters are primarily known for how their story ends. For the queens, it's a vicious cycle of divorce, beheading, death, and for some, survival. "It's more concert than musical," says Gerianne Perez, who plays Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon. "It's going to be unlike anything anybody has seen.""This is like if the six wives came together and became the Spice Girls," Mayagoitia says. "It's very telenovela, honestly. We get into the psychology of how they would write their own pop song about their life and what that would sound like.
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