"I've been just one word in a stupid rhyme~!"

My pseudotwin and I went to see Six when it was showing in Nottingham – I got really lucky with the tickets, they kept flipping between "sold out" and "maybe five left!" so I had a few days of watching like a hawk. Absolutely worth it, that was fucking goooooooooooooooooood. The tl;dr I remembered was "What if Hamilton, but pop and about the wives of Henry VIII" and I completely undersold it to myself. The premise is that the six wives of Henry VIII compete through the medium of pop to explain who has the most tragic story and/or relationship with Henry VIII. The songs are catchy, the choreography's great, the reclamation of history and choices is just... *swoons*

Seriously, the theatre was PACKED and I've no idea why that surprised me considering the whole "Literally only five tickets left" thing. I guess that's what happens when you stop paying attention for like two years?

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I'm not doing favourites because a) patriarchal nonsense, and b) the number of qualifiers and "oh but also this one" would just make it silly. I will say that in the fortnight since we went to see it, Get Down has been my most consistent replay because it fucking slaps. I'm so glad bookgazing put this on my radar, 10/10 would go and see it again.