A resort town seated at the northeastern-most edge of the Bible Belt, Virginia Beach was in many ways a fraught borderland, full of NAS Oceana lifers and Southerners born on the fringes of the Union, that couldn't have felt more different from the Big Apple. The rest, as they say, is herstory.As early New York hip-hop hits like "The Message," Kurtis Blow's "Basketball" and Run-DMC's "King of Rock" started to make their way down I-95, hip-hop was already storming over Virginia Beach. Luckily, we were all finally back at Bob's diminutive desk recording bands, ready to welcome them. Then it was announced that the musical would be at The National Theatre just a few miles from NPR HQ. As the resident theater geek on the team, I pitched SIX for a Tiny Desk (home) concert once the show finally opened in the fall of 2021. Just 90 minutes before curtain, New York theaters were ordered to close due to the pandemic.
Opening night on Broadway was set for March 12, 2020. It won this year's Tony Awards for best original score and best costume design of a musical. Since then, the show has become a global sensation - with six productions running concurrently. SIX premiered in 2017 at the famed Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss while students at the University of Cambridge. Their "queenspirations" include Beyoncé (for Catherine of Aragon, as played by Khaila Wilcoxon), Miley Cyrus (Anne Boleyn played by Storm Lever), Adele (Jane Seymour played by Jasmine Forsberg), Lizzo (Anna of Cleves played by Olivia Donalson), Britney Spears (Katherine Howard played by Didi Romero) and Celine Dion (Catherine Parr played by Gabriela Carrillo).
SIX The Musical imagines the six wives of Henry VIII reuniting on stage as real-life popstars. After the initial flurry of selfies were snapped, the actors and band completely owned the room - enrapturing the audience of NPR staffers assembled. As soon as the Queens saw the Tiny Desk, their excitement was palpable.
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