Six, the Broadway musical about the lives of the six wives of England’s Henry VIII, set an all-time record at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre the week of April 16-21. The North American touring company played to 36,160 people over the course of the standard eight performances—the highest-attended eight-performance week ever for a Broadway show or North American tour, according to the production.
The engagement was presented at the 4665-seat Fox Theatre by Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta, part of the Broadway Across America network.
Six originated in London and opened on Broadway Oct. 3, 2021. The show won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical of the season. Six recently played its 1,000th performance at the Lena Horne Theatre.
The North American tour launched at The Smith Center in Las Vegas on September 20, 2022, and is playing cities throughout the U.S.
Six has book, music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. The musical is constructed as a competition among the queens, who tell their stories about being married to the mercurial monarch. They start out by asking the audience to choose which of them had the most difficult married life, but later decide to take an entertainingly different tack.
The North American tour of Six features Kristina Leopold as Catherine of Aragon, Cassie Silva as Anne Boleyn, Kelly Denice Taylor as Jane Seymour, Danielle Mendoza as Anna of Cleves, Alizé Cruz as Katherine Howard, and Adriana Scalice as Catherine Parr.
Next up at the Fox: To Kill a Mockingbird, opening May 7. For tickets or more information, visit foxtheatre.org. Check out the 2024-25 Fox season lineup at encoreatlanta.com/?s=fox+season.
Photo: A scene from the North American tour of the musical Six. Photo by Joan Marcus
