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Open audition course of introduced for the 2025/26 West Finish forged of SIX the Musical

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Jun 17, 2024 / 3121 Views

Evan Walker

The place and when?

The Producers of the hit musical sensation SIX, alongside casting companions Pearson Casting, are thrilled to announce that there can be an open audition course of for the 2025/26 West Finish forged in each London and Salford in June.

The manufacturing crew are on the lookout for sensational triple-threat singer/actor/dancers required to carry out the SIX wives of Henry VIII as they reunite to inform their tales within the type of a pop live performance. They will need to have nice modern pop voices, good comedic instincts, and be capable of work together with an viewers properly and gigging expertise is a plus. Auditionees should be aged 18 or over.

The open name auditions will happen on Wednesday 19^th June 2024 in Salford and Friday 21^st June 2024 in London, with slots out there to be booked on-line upfront. The open name will start with a dance name and auditionees are requested to convey a CV and headshot and to put on comfy clothes and block heels for dance.

SIX the Musical has simply prolonged its reign within the West Finish on the Vaudeville Theatre by means of to Sunday 4 Might 2025. Over 152,000 seats can be happening sale as a part of the brand new reserving extension, together with tickets for six new entry efficiency dates and two new sing-along performances.

Who’s within the forged?

The present West Finish forged is NIKKI BENTLEY (Catherine of Aragon), THAO THERESE NGUYEN (Anne Boleyn), KAYLEIGH MCKNIGHT (Jane Seymour), RECA OAKLEY (Anna of Cleves), INEZ BUDD (Katherine Howard), JANIQ CHARLES (Catherine Parr), GABRIELLA STYLIANOU (Alternate Catherine of Aragon & Jane Seymour/Dance Captain), NAOMI ALADE (Alternate Anne Boleyn & Anna of Cleves), HANNAH LOWTHER (Alternate Katherine Howard & Catherine Parr), MEG DIXON-BRASIL (Tremendous Swing), NATALIE PILKINGTON (Common Tremendous Swing).

What’s the present about?

Premiering on the Edinburgh Fringe Pageant in 2017, SIX the Musical has gone on to develop into a phenomenon around the globe, at the moment taking part in in London, on Broadway, Chicago, and on tour round Australia/New Zealand and the UK. The London manufacturing started on the Arts Theatre earlier than briefly shifting to the Lyric Theatre after lockdown. The present has now settled in its new house, the Vaudeville Theatre.

The 75 minute pop live performance (written by two younger college students Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss) takes a historic have a look at Henry VIII’s six wives, with every of them having the chance to say why they suppose they’d the worst marriage. The winner will get to be the lead singer of the band!

With an all-female on-stage band and all-female forged, Six the Musical actually is a present about feminine empowerment. Reclaiming their her-story and understanding that nobody would even bear in mind who Henry was, if not for them.

Enjoying their closing few exhibits earlier than a model new forged start performances subsequent week had been Jarnéia Richard-Noel (Catherine of Aragon), Courtney Bowman (Anne Boleyn), Collette Guitart (Jane Seymour), Cherelle Jay (Anna of Cleves), Sophie Isaacs (Katherine Howard) Hana Stewart (Catherine Parr).

As a forged, it truly is an ensemble piece with everybody having equal stage time and recognising understudies as a part of the prolonged band. Enjoying 9 exhibits every week, at any given efficiency you may even see any forged member as they actually combine it up – however they’re all equally fierce.

The songs are infectious. From the opening numbers ‘Ex Wives’ and ‘No Method’, the viewers is aware of inside seconds of the music beginning that they’re in for a enjoyable, loud and woman energy present. From the tender ‘Coronary heart Of Stone’, superbly sung by Hana Stewart to the techo-rave group quantity ‘Haus of Holbein’, each track is a banger!

The present feels prefer it’s the very best it’s ever been in its new house on the Vaudeville Theatre and for those who haven’t seen it but you then actually are lacking out on an incredible present.

★★★★★

Reviewed by West Finish Wilma