Tour Review: 'Six'
Divorced, beheaded, died! Divorced, beheaded, survived!
Henry the Eighth he was, Henry the Eighth he was, he was. He was the widower next door, he was married five times before … or something like that. Except this time, there are no songs for Henry VIII – it’s the ladies’ turn to sing in SIX, the Broadway musical whose North American Tour has stopped at D.C.’s National Theatre. They have their own catchy tunes, as they repeat again and again, ‘Divorced, beheaded, died! Divorced, beheaded, survived!’ to open the show, introducing themselves, in unfortunate chronology, in this quick history lesson. This rock concert musical finally, just a few hundred years too late, lets the ladies tell their side of the story and battle it out for who had the worst relationship with the infamous king.