Dylan Mulvaney cast as Anne Boleyn

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Came up on fb and thought it was satire to start with! Would put me off going to see it tbh

Eeew. He gives me the heebiejeebies.

Totally captured.
A few years ago the writers refused to be on a chat show because JKR was also a guest.
I saw it last year and thought it was a bit shit,the Anne Boleyn actress kept talking in a weird baby voice.

Isn’t Anne Boleyn portrayed as the airhead one?

Which she absolutely wasn’t.

I saw this earlier and was horrified that a show that goes to the lengths of having a fully female band has done this.

I am thrilled that all 3 of my teenage dd had seen this announcement today and are as angry as I am.

Not female, women, and transwomen are women of course. <pukes>

You tell me?

It’s not a ‘deep’ show. Its 60 minutes of each of the queens singing their story and then a group number at the end.

If you’ve not seen it you might not comprehend the format?

Ffs

I’ve seen it, thanks. I found it didn’t live up to the hype.

I also know my Tudor history.

This might be a stupid question, but how does a male voice work in a female role?

LOL

Seriously?

I’m off to bed, but my final note to anyone who hasn’t seen SIX is this - it’s a 1 hour show condensing and exceptionally complex part of English history that attempts to give a voice to 6 women who suffered at the hands of an English king.

It’s a musical

It’s not a historical narrative

It heavily relies on tropes about females - the unattractive one, the feisty one, the homemaker, the temptress etc and does its best to - within the limits of a one theatre show - to try and challenge some of this and turn it upside down.🙃

Ah I’ve been wanting to book this but not whilst he’s in there. Puts me right off.

I am not remotely going to argue with you about its historical content. That’s not what the thread is about. Stand down.

He’s fucking massive and cant sing.

im definitely going. It’ll be hilaire

Absolutely raging I just bought tickets for that bloody night earlier today and bringing my dd who I absolutely would not have, had I of known.

Stand down yourself love.

That’s one argument to be sure! I would love to see how Dylan handles this!

Oh no! I’d be fucking gutted.

Divorced, bloke, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.

Six is alright as a bit of fluff, but my main issue with it (apart from the hypocrisy of the writers) is that it constantly drones on about “telling the bits you don’t know” and then is filled with the same old stuff everybody knows about the six wives of Henry VIII. It’s so pleased with itself. It’s no Hamilton.

Completely seperate to the discussion about this particular case... It can be done depending on the individuals vocal range. Not a tenor obvs but you get male Sopranos and men who can sing in Falsetto. I think if you are trained to listen you probably can tell the difference. But it doesn't sound ridiculous and there is a long history of male singers voicing female parts. It's not whether a man could reach those notes that is the issue really.

@brieandcrackers I assume you mean him? The whole point of this thread is that a man has the part of a female character.

Whether Mulvaney can hit those notes is a completely seperate question....

A pile of shite then. I hate musical theatre, this just adds to my 'never in a million years' list of experiences never to do twice.

You can always tell. 'Oh no you can't!'
Oh yes. You can.