New queens take their thrones September 20 as the second national tour of SIX begins at Las Vegas' The Smith Center. Christened the "Boleyn" tour, dates have been announced through August, 2023.
Broadway's Gerianne Pérez (Waitress, In Transit) stars as Catherine of Aragon, joined by fellow queens Zan Berube as Anne Boleyn, Amina Faye as Jane Seymour, Terica Marie as Anna of Cleves, Aline Mayagoitia as Katherine Howard, and Sydney Parra as Catherine Parr. The cast is rounded out by alternates Aryn Bohannon, Jana Larell Glover, Taylor Pearlstein, and dance captain Cecilia Snow.
Following Las Vegas, the tour will stop in Nashville, Tennessee; Tempe, Arizona; Tucson, Arizona; St. Paul, Minnesota; Houston, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; New Orleans, Louisiana; Dallas, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Appleton, Wisconsin; St. Louis, Missouri; Des Moines, Iowa; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; Buffalo, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Rochester, New York; Hershey, Pennsylvania; Durham, North Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Madison, Wisconsin; and Cleveland, Ohio.
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The pop musical is a "herstory" remix about the six women who all married King Henry VIII of England, taking to the stage to tell their side of the story. Productions of SIX are currently mounted on Broadway and London's West End, with four tours currently running worldwide across the U.K. and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and North America. In 2022, it received eight Tony nominations, taking home the wins for Best Costume Design of a Musical (Slade) and Best Original Score (Marlow and Moss).
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The Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss musical features choreography by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, set design by Emma Bailey, costume design by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Tim Deiling, and sound design by Paul Gatehouse. The production also has orchestrations by Tom Curran with music supervision and vocal arrangements by Joe Beighton, U.S. Music Supervision by Roberta Duchak, and casting by Peter Van Dam from Tara Rubin Casting.
Named the "Boleyn" tour, this national tour runs concurrently with the "Aragon" tour, which began earlier this year and has dates announced through July, 2023.
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