The multi award-winning musical SIX, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will be returning to The Lowry, Salford, next month for a sell-out three-week summer season.
The multi award-winning musical SIX, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will be returning to The Lowry, Salford, next month for a sell-out three-week summer season.
SIX follows the six wives of Henry VIII as they take to the mic to tell their own personal tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power.
The show will be at The Lowry from Tuesday 13th to Sunday 1st September 2024. Standing tickets available.
The current tour cast will open the show’s run at the Lowry: Nicole Louise Lewis (Catherine of Aragon), Laura Dawn Pyatt (Anne Boleyn), Erin Caldwell (Jane Seymour), Kenedy Small (Anna of Cleves), Lou Henry (Katherine Howard) and Aoife Haakenson (Catherine Parr). Izi Maxwell, Tamara Morgan and Ellie Jane Grant are Alternates, with Super Swing / Dance Captain Shakira Simpson.
This cast will play their final performance on Sunday 18 August with the new company taking over from Tuesday 20 August. The new touring Queens will be played by Billie Kerr (Catherine of Aragon), Yna Tresvalles (Anne Boleyn), Liberty Stottor (Jane Seymour), Hannah Victoria (Anna of Cleves), Lizzie Emery (Katherine Howard) and Eloise Lord (Catherine Parr). Milly Willows, Erin Summerhayes and Lorren Santo-Quinn will be joining the cast as Alternates, with Super Swing / Dance Captain Izzy Formby-Jackson
The cast are backed by the show’s all-female band, The Ladies in Waiting.
Since its early days as a student production in a 100-seat room at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the show has fast become a global musical phenomenon.
On the international stage, SIX currently has productions playing on Broadway at the Lena Horne Theatre and two concurrent North American tours, including a seven-week run in Las Vegas, with further stagings announced in Canada and Holland this autumn.
Back on home turf, the London production continues its reign in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre (its third royal residence) and the UK and Ireland tour continues to break Box Office records.
Winner of 26 major international awards including the 2022 Tony Award for ‘Best Original Score’ and ‘Best Costume Design’ on Broadway, double Whatsonstage Award winner for ‘Best West End Show’ 2022 & 2023, and the 2020 BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for ‘Best Musical’, SIX was also nominated for five Olivier awards, including ‘Best New Musical’.
Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, SIX is co-directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, featuring choreography by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille. The design team includes Emma Bailey (Set Design), Gabriella Slade (Costume Design), Tim Deiling (Lighting Design) and Paul Gatehouse (Sound Design). The score features orchestrations by Tom Curran with music supervision and vocal arrangements by Joe Beighton. Musical Director Caitlin Morgan and Associate UK Musical Supervisor Lauren Hopkinson. Casting is by Pearson Casting. SIX is produced by Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes and George Stiles.
The show’s run at the Lowry coincides with QUEENS, the major new exhibition inspired by SIX the Musical, will begin its reign at The Lowry this weekend.
Queens: The Exhibition is open now and running until Sunday 3rd November 2024.
The free exhibition – curated by The Lowry – is the first of its kind and is produced with the support of SIX and its creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss.
The exhibition is a celebration of the hit musical SIX and taking centre stage will be two of the iconic costumes from the show: those of Catherine of Aragon and Katherine Howard – a first for the North West.
The costumes are displayed alongside a newly-commissioned model of the SIX stage set, designed by Emma Bailey, as well as scripts, film and memorabilia from Toby and Lucy.
It also features new commissions from local legend, The Mancorialist, Instagram cartoonist Lily O’Farrell and from Manchester-based artist, Johnny Humes, whose remarkable new painting throws a spotlight on Fanny and Stella, two young men who shocked Victorian England.
A Tudor-esque house inside the exhibition will be filled with UV light for some magical opportunities for visitors to draw their own pictures. There’s the chance to sing your heart out, and even a huge oversized gothic throne for that essential regal selfie. And there are mini-Queens hidden throughout the galleries to find.
There will also be venue-wide free learning and engagement activities based around the Queens theme for the duration of the exhibition’s run, including arts & crafts, silent discos and dance workshops. For full details of what’s on offer during Queens, including live music performances and Queens-themed food and drink offerings in ‘The Queens Head’ pub.