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An Alternate is a performer who occasionally goes on in a role to give the main performer a break. Their performances are usually scheduled. From what I can see online, it seems like each production of Six generally has 2-3 alternates that sub in regularly, primarily for two specific queens. London also has an understudy, who will only go on stage if someone is unexpectedly out, like if an actress is ill. Seems like the formal alternates also jump in as understudies if need be.

Adele with a bit of Demi Lovato’ … Six, with Natalie Paris as Jane Seymour, right. Photograph: Pamela Raith Six “didn’t come out of a love of the Tudor period particularly,” says Marlow, 26. “It came from us having an interest in the representation of women in musical theater, having women on stage doing funny and hilarious things.” Moss, 27, adds, “What we were interested in doing was reframing the way that women have been perceived in history and telling their side of the story.” Small Start, Big Finish: "Heart of Stone" and "I Don't Need Your Love" both begin softly, but end with riff-heavy spectacles.

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Five-Second Foreshadowing: During the opening lines of "All You Wanna Do", Katherine Howard boasts that "Ever since I was a child/I made the boys go wild!". It's assumed that she's exaggerating, or at least means boys her age, but not one line later she brings up her music teacher Henry Mannox, who was twenty-three to Katherine's thirteen. Implied Rape: Katherine Howard sings about what is undoubtedly sexual abuse in "All You Wanna Do", but the word "rape" nor its usual euphemisms aren't used in the show. Cultural Translation: In non-British productions, some lines are altered to reduce English slang (mostly the word "mate". See the notes for original wording.

Katherine Howard's naïveté. Men continually use her for sex, and she keeps telling herself, this one is different, this one cares about her. Like Anne, this leads to her beheading.If the actress is wearing the open coat version of the Cleves costume, the queens may take it off (in a lot of cases they don't for unknown reasons), but it wouldn't qualify for this trope since only the top is taken off and the tank top underneath was already exposed. Henry VIII is very upfront about his dislike of Anna of Cleves during their short-lived marriage. This ends in a divorce, leaving Anna with a hefty settlement and her own palace. Ephebophile: Henry Mannox, Francis Dereham, and Henry VIII all had sexual relationships with Katherine Howard while she was a teenager. Thankfully, the show condemns their behaviour while portraying Katherine Howard as a very sympathetic victim.

Jane Seymour sports a simple, modest crown with small spikes. In some productions, the crown is entirely white. The truth of the matter depends on which scholar one asks. Most of Anne’s letters and papers were destroyed following her May 1536 execution on contrived charges of adultery, incest and conspiring to kill her husband, so much of what is known about her comes from outside observers, some of whom had reason to paint her in an unforgiving light. Even the queen’s date of birth, writes historian Antonia Fraser, is a fact “that can never be known with absolute certainty (like so much about Anne Boleyn).”Greensleeves" was not actually written about Anne Boleyn. Evidence even suggests that the piece was actually written years after Henry VIII's death, in the Elizabethan era. Colorblind Casting: The queens were, historically, all white women, but the casting call specifically states that it welcomes "all self-identifying female and non-binary performers", regardless of size, shape, ethnicity, etc. Catherine Parr ◊'s giant sleeves and pants bring to mind women's fashion around the '90s, which trended towards masculine clothing in the wake of the increasingly-popular feminist movement. The "revolutionary" aspect was more noticeable in earlier versions of the show, where she wears a headband across her forehead. She is also the most covered-up of the queens and wears a dark blue, representing her level-headedness and sensibility.

One of Henry's given reasons for wanting to divorce Catherine of Aragon is that, since she was married to his brother first, the Bible says she'll never bear him children. Except, as Catherine points out, they have a kid. note In real life, this claim hinged on an extremely shaky retranslation of the relevant Bible phrase, interpreting the word for "child" as masculine rather than gender-neutral. When Jane Seymour bounds towards and scolds Catherine of Aragon for daring to use Mary as a way to one-up everyone else, an increasing popular acting choice is for her actress to (subtly or not-so-subtly) punctuate her tirade by vainly posing towards the audience afterwards.Anna of Cleves ◊' luxurious tastes, personal independence and radical sensibilities are reflected by an outfit that would be far more likely to be worn by a noble man than a noblewoman in Tudor times. She wears a fur coat and tomboyish shorts, as well as knee-high boots in later productions. As an attention-grabbing showwoman, she also wears a chain-laden leotard underneath her coat. Her colour, bright red, symbolises her charismatic, energetic personality.