Dylan Mulvaney cast as Anne Boleyn

[dementedpixie]

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

I’ve always had them pegged as tedious attention seekers after the silly tantrum they threw when JKR was on the same programme as them.

Had no idea about any of this, but no surprise I guess. Female empowerment packaged and sold for the benefit of men. Must be a day with a Y in it.

Rather surprised he's still going with all this schtick.

People keep giving him money for it.

He would be mad to stop to be honest. Wringing every last penny out of idiots willing to fawn.

Exactly!!!

Saw with my DD-absolutely loved it.

How can they not see it is problematic to have a man playing Anne Boleyn when the very reason she was executed was for not producing a male heir-amongst other reasons. I think if she had produced the male heir none of the other reasons would have mattered.

Hope this production sinks without a trace

This! the writers of Six are two privileged young people from wealthy backgrounds. Tony Marlowe identifies as NB and uses they/them pronouns. They're your classic upper middle class liberal arts be kindsrs.

Plus as we know there's nothing like seeing a TW in the flesh especially surrounded by a lot of women ti highlight just how male they are

so yes struggling to get annoyed about this as I find the whole "wooooah girl poooweer" concept of Six to be fatuous anyway.

It's sad you don't value women.

Our history matters. The shit that women were dealt through history matters. And it happened to female people not male, and it happened to them because they were female not male.

So swapping men in to play us because a bunch of limited sexist twunts have decided it's better to define us by stereotypes than see who we actually are is just damn offsensive.

Indeed, male actors playing female roles because females weren’t allowed and now let’s shove this bloke into a female role. This very much demeans the story of the multiple women discarded by a king who could. He must have been gutted to see how many dc Anne of Cleeves went on to have.

This bloke is an appalling choice given the show is about the women who were used and abused. What the fuck. I’d absolutely be demanding my money back had I bought tickets. This is not the stage (ha!) for trans issues. FFS, is nothing sacred?

Oh absolutely, the lyrics to Don’t lose your head are infuriating. I told my girls so when we saw it, there is so much lost about the women in the songs. But to then also completely ignore why she is written as a femme fatale instead of an intelligent woman making the best out of what men let her be and why she was beheaded, and letting her role be played by a bloke mocking women, oh that is just too much.

It’s a shit musical, not surprised they’ve given a man the main part of a woman who was punished for not providing a man.

Avoid at all costs.

Sod off with your ‘hysterical’ insult.
There’s nothing remotely clever about casting a man, who makes his living by parodying women, as a woman. Anne Boleyn wasn’t trans or male, so why cast someone who is both of those in the role? Pathetic.

Meh go and see it if you want to , don't if you don't. Can't get worked up about this

When I went a few years ago (it was West End versus Broadway) the audience was full of Mums and teen/young daughters.

I don't want them to think/see it normalised that the best woman for the part of a woman is a man.

🤣🤣🤣

I think you're missing the point. I enjoyed the musical. I think that people who are able to write music and lyrics are indeed cleverer than me when it comes to those things. But, so what? That's got absolutely nothing to do with whether I want to see DM cast in the role of AB. Which I don't. Perfectly calm about it too. Though you seem to be a little upset if you're resorting to insulting people rather than telling us why a man is a good choice for the role.

Really? Shocked. 🙄

The problem with this is that you are still failing to engage with the point @OneGreyKoala made.

Him

Because of all the "Manne Broleyn" comments. 😅

But choirs regularly have men in the contralto section.

@OneGreyKoala how do you know how clever the posters on MN are? That’s the thing about anonymous forums. You don’t know the posters. So your statement is incorrect.

I'm not really that fussed as long as they are good. I've seen a woman play Richard 3rd and various other people playing the opposite sex in various shows who have been amazing.

On the other hand, I thought the trans person who played Margot in Legally Blonde at Regent's Park was dire. Their singing was painful in the role.

I am keeping an open mind (admittedly without too much hope).

Sorry I can’t see if anyone responded. I’m sure I saw an explanation for that because I thought it was odd when I saw it - it is effectively supposed to be satire, a bit like how Katherine Howard’s song starts all peppy and playful but by the end they make it so clear how manipulated she was. I just don’t think it comes across as clearly with AB.

To be honest the trans argument usually passes me by, by and large as long as people are happy then it’s none of my business what name they use or what clothes they wear or how they identify. But I think they’ve dropped the ball a bit here because it’s a controversial subject at the best of times, and given the background of the show is oppressed women, it really just creates conflict for the sake of headlines.

You nailed it!

Ah, the sweet irony. Sadly lost on most of the audience, I suspect.

I like the show

i would agree that at male shouldnt be playing AB

would have been better to play Anne of Cleves…that would have explained why Henry didnt fancy her

that I do find funny 😂