Purity signalling - musical authors withdraw from Graham Norton's show to promote their musical, because JK Rowling was also being interviewed about her new children's book

I’d probably watch that...is it catchy?

Here's a lockdown performance of the opening song. You'll be able to spot Toby Marlow on it.

Although calls of ‘who?’ are probably fair enough in the R2 listening figures scheme of things in this case, I always find it a bit of a disingenuous argument on here. SIX is a highly acclaimed and well known show

Ive literally never heard of them or the musical, so my ‘who ?’ (should i chose to use it) wouldn’t be disingenuous

Ive only got as far as this post so apologies if its moved on

To be fair, it’s performed very much in the context of someone who has been abused.

Yes, when it's performed it makes your skin crawl because you can understand that she was abused by these men.

Wow, that Katherine Howard song starts "ever since I was a child I'd make the boys go wild" and doesn't improve. How do songs like this make it onto the stage? Really, there are soooooo many people involved in these productions, they are rehearsed. Doesn't anyone, in all that time, say "guys these lyrics...I'm not sure... are they edgy, or maybe just really iffy?"

I love that nursie sketch!

I have never read or bought JKR but am getting so cross I'm thinking if Ikabog might be the first purchase... is it actually any good? Am I right in thinking it's age 7 ish up, or would 5 years if read to them be ok?

[quote JudithShakespeare]Here are the misogynistic lyrics these two wrote about 13 year old Katherine Howard and her "relationship" with her music teacher.

To most people I think it just looks like the attention seeking it is.

Interesting. I had planned to see Six but I will save my pennies. Can't stand wokescolds.

The StrangeWorlds Travel Agency. From the flick through at the time, I thought it was standard children's portal fantasy.

I know I'm cynical but they're getting plenty of publicity off the back of their decision and I expect they factored that in.

Ok, that Katherine Howard song is nasty.

Always with the really malleable ethical boundaries, these bright shining culture warriors...

I’ve no doubt the twitterati approve

Six is very successful - all my friends daughters have been to see it

Shame they personally are woke idiots but I take that as par for the course these days with young playwrights

It's proving a popular stance on twitter. I don't know whether that translates to increased ticket sales, but in their list of approved children's books is one I bought last week because it was on offer in a high street bookshop.

What the hell have I bought? Is this a book that is simply by a trans author (that's not a problem) or something with dubious content? Child hasn't read it yet, so I'd better get on it first.

What a shame, although not surprised, having seen the writers interviewed before.

I've been to see Six twice, my dd loves it. We also have tickets to see it in January. I said to dd at the time how unusual it was to have a show which had an all-female cast (including the band). I like the songs.

Will still go, if the show is on, but will have a chat with dd (who also loves JK Rowling) about this stance that the writers have taken re. refusing to appear alongside JK Rowling. She's pretty sensible (and cynical) and will probably draw the same conclusions as I do.

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Did they really think they were in danger of being cancelled by their social circle for being on the same episode of Graham Norton? Has cancellation fervour got that bad?"

Yes I suspect they did. I expect they haven't met a single person in the flesh who wouldn't tow the line that JKR is transphobic, and if they saw anything suggesting otherwise they would dismiss it as transphobia propaganda. Similarly, they won't have heard a single negative thing about Mermaids, or if they have, again it will have been dismissed as transphobic. I know some people who move in similar circles to them. I doubt the idea that this might lose them ticket sales simply won't have occurred to them, or if it did, they'd believe it was a price worth paying.

notbadconsidering that very episode was on the BBC last night! I thought how it would never be written now.

Bloody hell - they're trivialising a 13 yr old having a sexual relationship with their 23 yr old teacher? Well ... that's a good look.

Ah.

Judith

Paedophilia is sooooo sexxayyy.

(And to think I was going to take a large bunch of teens to this "jazz hands" shitshow)

[quote JudithShakespeare]Here are the misogynistic lyrics these two wrote about 13 year old Katherine Howard and her "relationship" with her music teacher.

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