Six The Musical Live! (12A)

The explosively joyous musical reclaims history for the beleaguered Queens: divorced, beheaded, and on stage!

In Six we go back 500 years, as the wives of Henry VIII take the floor. Their marriages were bloody, messy, church-reforming, and pored over by gossipy historians – but this time they’re telling their stories, their way: with a live performance contest starring the hottest pop ghost-girl group you’ve ever seen.

They are Fifth Harmony, sure – singing together with tight sounds and tighter choreography – but all six are also that group’s breakout star Normani: when each gets their moment to take the spotlight and go solo, the audience just about loses their minds. And like Hamilton’s homages to R&B artists, they do it by remixing, referencing and shouting out the women of pop.

Six takes the proto-feminism of Hamilton’s women along with the populist feminism of the 2010s, and folds them into a bright and snappy musical that sees the Queens go from competing with to supporting one another. Six is drenched with a love for pure pop, royal history, and giving women their due.