Abby Mueller, Samantha Pauly, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack, and Anna Uzele
Joan Marcus
Six: The Musical's 2023 Grammy-nominated live original Broadway cast recording will be dropping on CD. Listeners will hear the queens as they sang live on the Broadway show's October 3 opening night. The album originally dropped for streaming May 6, 2022 on all digital platforms.
The U.K.-born musical, a pop-concert-meets-history-lesson celebrates the six women who married King Henry VIII of England.
Six is currently playing at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End, at the Coex Shinhan Card Artium in Seoul, Korea, and two North American and one U.K. tour.
Six was co-written by Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, and co-directed by Moss and Jamie Armitage. The production features set design by Emma Bailey, costume design by Gabrielle Slade, lighting design by Tim Deiling, and sound design by Paul Gatehouse. Kenny Wax, Wendy and Andy Barnes, George Stiles, and Kevin McCollum serve as its producers on Broadway.
Kebede is the first Black actor to play Elphaba full-time on Broadway, while Bainbridge is the first wheelchair-using actor to play Nessarose on stage.
Ling and Keys' discussion will explore the role of underrepresented voices in the music industry and how musical theatre is evolving under the influence of those voices.