Dylan Mulvaney cast as Anne Boleyn

I enjoyed Hamilton and the cast was strong - excellent acting signing and stage presence. However I do struggle with how it is revered . It felt to me like it was trying to rewrite history with the American’s taking credit for a particular stand on slavery that was actually the UKs. It gave me the vibe that part of the reason they wanted to break ties with UK was slavery- which maybe true, I’m no historian I thought it was mostly about unfair British taxes, but if slavery did play a part, it was the a British to outlawed slavery and many British navy personnel died protecting that, way before America.

Completely ridiculous like casting Rachel Dolezal to play Martin Luther King!!

Britain had a long tradition of gender swapping roles on stage.

Wouldn’t bother me. I didn’t know Dylan M had musical theatre training but if good in the role, why not. It’s all made up anyway.

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Which head will they chop off?

Just missing a beard...

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That may be why they cast Mulvaney whose whole creepy schtick is larping as an airhead girl.

Yes, I heard that too.

also digressing, but do you actually get genuine male sopranos? Not including men castrated as a boy obviously.

This. For anyone wondering, the show is basically telling the story of the six wives through the X Factor. Each of them is depicted like an iconic pop star and sings a number in their style.

So Jane Seymour, who died after childbirth, gets an Adele ballad. Anne of Cleves gets a rap number about her cultural influence. Etc. Katherine Howard is one of the best examples of the tone of the whole thing. She gets a number in the style of Britney Spears, which at first glance seems to tie into the teen vixen stereotype so common in pop, which also plagued Howard in real life. But you very quickly come to realise that Howard is actually trapped in a sad cycle of being taken advantage of by older men, lacking the power to refuse them and desperately hoping each new man will be different. By the end of the song she's just broken by it all. It's very sad.

I was so disappointed to look up the creators and see they were all aboard the trans train.

Anne is probably the least vocally challenging role though, isn't she? I haven't seen the show live or anything, but I've listened to the soundtrack and if memory serves, Anne's song is quite light. It's a Lily Allen style ditty. "Sorry not sorry for what I said, I was just having fun . . ."

The Lily Allen style will mean Dylan is doing a Mockney accent though (yikes at the thought of it) and on top of that, I really, really doubt he could pull off the underlying vulnerability the song requires. So leaving aside the great, glaring, obvious reason this is a shit bit of casting . . . I still can't see how Dylan would be a good choice for the role.

I feel sorry for anyone who was excited to see this.

There's a difference for sure because men's lungs are different sizes etc. For example a female choir singing misère mei sounds slightly different to a Boys Choir singing the same thing even if they are hitting all the same notes. It's more that female and male singers can sing in ranges usually associated with the opposite sex if they are skilled and have that range. Some of the parts now sing by women were originally sung by castrati (urgh) or male sopranos. The issue here is firstly Dylan Mulvaney probably isn't going to be hitting those notes as well. But secondly I think there's a more general issue with him taking a female role in an all female production.

is it not good enough that the original Anne Boykin was moulded and eventually killed due to the nasty will of men ? Do we now need to disrespect her even more?

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Oh thank god! Well not for the principle which is infuriating but I am grateful I didn't have to consider cancelling.

Don't be so damn silly. Even if he wasn't actually a man taking a role from a woman, he'd still be a talent free zone. Talk about a "diversity hire"

Dylan Mulvaney is appearing in Six on Broadway, not in the UK. I guess bookings are slow if they have gone for stunt casting.

They are taking women's everything and trashing it, because they can.
No more heroes anymore.