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Six the Musical tells the stories of King Henry VIII's six wives through a collection of pop songs as they compare lives to see who suffered the most and who should therefore lead their girl group. The songs are catchy, fun, and exciting, and they are genuinely great pop tunes. The singing performances from the Australian actresses were amazing, and all of them were technically very skilled.

It originated as a college student's concept album and it is clear even in performance that it is not designed to exist as anything more than that. The dialogue is clumsy and tonally confused. It gives the audience proverbial whiplash by sounding like a Hi-5 concert one moment to hammy, beginner improv-style dialogue the next, before snapping to blunt, and pretty overt, British jokes about sex and adultery.

Six tries to emulate Hamilton's success by using modern musical elements and basing the story on a 'woke' and empowering retelling of history. But, as a revision on Henry VIII's wives, it just regurgitates a bunch of facts that the audience already knows and sets it to the song. In performance most of the characters are portrayed as strong, independent women, and they pull it off well by anchoring their music in modern-day pop feminists. But the squabbles between the wives play into the stereotype that women are catty and bitch about each other behind their backs. The entire musical is steeped in the idea that these women are only notable because of their relationship with King Henry VIII. Only in the last song of the show do the women finally reject Henry VIII and come to support and appreciate each other. Six didn't have to be like that. It could have been about the women supporting each other from the start.

And that is my other problem with Six. It tries to sell itself as a musical when it really isn’t. Most of the actresses cannot act or dance, they can only sing, and the choreography they are working with is very static compared to the likes of West Side Story, Moulin Rouge or most other musicals. At the same time, the set and lighting design are barely used and don't add much to their performances.

(Source: https://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/)

The word “static” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to __________.