SIX - Teen Edition

SIX – Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived, the wives of King Henry VIII, performed by six talented young ladies. This was not only an evening of musical entertainment, but also a history lesson, who amongst us, really remembers the names and the order in which they married King Henry.

The setting for this performance was the 19th Century Barn Hill Methodist Church which despite its modernised interior provided an ideal performance venue. Enhanced by staging and an impressive lighting rig erected for these performances gave excellent sight lines for the audience sat in the body of the building. Naturally being a church building the acoustics were good so there were no problems with sound.

This is a show that requires good sound and lighting and there were no problems here, musicals often benefit from live music but the very nature of this show requires use of pre-recorded music. This sometimes causes problems for the singers but there were no such problems here, the six girls were well rehearsed.

This show requires six strong singers and there was really strong vocals from Carmen Baum (Catherine of Aragon), Emily Hales (Anne Boleyn), Ivy Freeman-Hall (Jane Seymour), Jazz MacRorie (Anna of Cleves), Zoe Leeton (Katherine Howard) cand Grace Unwin (Catherine Parr). This is not a show for a star, there are six stars, not only were their individual solo’s well sung but the strength of the harmonies came through in the numbers ‘Ex Queens’ and ‘Haus of Holbein’. The finale of ‘The MegaSIX was well received by all. Not only did these six young ladies sing throughout, there was also a lot of choreography to be performed by the soloists in their individual numbers, also with the other five acting as ‘back dancers’. They also had to bring out in their performances the characteristics of the different queens which they did well.

This is a loud and entertaining show and was performed as such with panache, so congratulations to the performers, to Nicola as director and choreographer, the wardrobe team, sound and light and all the production team and staff from Stamford Corn Exchange. Finally, a mention to Andrew for standing outside in the cold dressed as Henry VIII greeting the audience.

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