The year 2019 was a busy one for Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Six the Musical, which the pair famously wrote together while still students at Cambridge, was really hitting the big time: they had a full-scale run in the West End, a UK-wide tour, opened the show on Norwegian cruise ships and toured the US and Canada ahead of opening on Broadway – where Marlow and Moss would eventually net a Tony for best score. But 2019 was also the year their new musical, Why Am I So Single?, first flickered into life.
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‘Treason,’ the Musical Where the Fans Came First
The catchy, folk-tinged numbers from “Treason the Musical” have been streamed online over a million times, in 96 countries. Its fans — known as “Plotters” — have been listening to an EP, an acoustic record and a live album of the songs, as well as sharing their own performances on TikTok. But until this fall, there hadn’t even been a full-scale production of the show.
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‘Remember us from your GCSEs?’
It’s Henry VIII’s six wives – and they’re back, bitch, to re-tell ‘her-story’ as a slick, sassy girl band. Think Euro-pop remixes of ‘Greensleeves’, Anne Boleyn spouting tweenage text-speak (‘everybody chill/it’s totes God’s will’), and K-Howard warbling #MeToo tales of gropey employers. Continue reading “Review: Six the Musical, Arts Theatre”