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

It sounds like you haven’t seen it previously?! You say this would put you off seeing it, but given it’s been around for years already, if you haven’t bothered booking tickets previously, it’s not really casting this person that is putting you off seeing it?

I love this show, seen it several times. If someone has been cast in this it is due to their incredible talent. Good enough for me!

I’m also fairly certain that for every person who won’t see it ‘because of this’ there will be more people who book tickets because of the very fact that this show is diverse in its castings. So probably no loss to all involved in it.

As I said, it’s a shame for you that you are missing out on a brilliant show but that’s up to you (unless I’m mistaken and you have already seen it, it which case, please disregard my comment).

I’ve always seen it with Katherine of Aragorn and Anne of Cleeves as women of colour, I think I’ve also seen there have been casts with East Asian actresses (plus I believe an all Japanese cast in Tokyo)…I’m not sure if it’s a “rule “ that Cleeves is always black though…might be!

as an aside you can only get a license to perform Hairspray if you can correctly racially cast all the characters - so if you want to do it at a school that is not very racially mixed you can’t. (Ooh there’s another good topic to discuss)

I thought pantomime season had finished.

Would certainly put a twist on history if it had been unearthed that the reason Henry VIII beheaded his second wife was because he'd been decieved into marrying a bloke in a dress. I'd be pretty pissed too.

Oh, look! Another transphobic post on Mumsnet!
What a shocking surprise, these never happen!

Bore off and get a hobby 🙄🥱

Women can’t have anything to themselves can they?

Hands up who thinks we’ll ever see a woman playing Hamilton..?

I just had a gander on the FB page. Seems DM is in the Broadway version of Six, still would very much put me off seeing SIX again.
Strangely, all the comment on that post are fawning over DM, so either moderated in advance or heavy deletion going on.

Also had a look at the comments on the playbill page and there are a few comments which are a bit more critical.

My niece desparately wants to go to London and see SIX, but I held off for now as here English is not good enough quite yet.

This is an interesting point. Recast the whole story so Queen Henrietta divorces/murders her husbands because they can't get her pregnant. Changes the narrative a bit.

I wish I'd been able to see Cynthia Erivo as Jesus in JCSS, hopefully it will be available online one day. Thinking of Jesus as female changes the narrative imo.

Casting a TW so we're all supposed to pretend its an actual woman isn't the same

Not sure either. Just noted in the performances I saw that the one who was not white was the only one attractive only due to the fakery of 'The House of Holbein'. And now we have the most famous and popular of the six, who made the greatest impact historically, and has the best part in the show, played by a man.

I have seen it!
I dont like him and his over the top pretending to be a woman

Nah - this is the version where Henry V111 yells "Off with his balls!!!"

@ifeelprettyandwitty "women who never had a voice at the time being humanised as really people."
Many women of their status did keep in touch with their families and were able to accomplish much both within there estates and as diplomats. Many were educated to a high level. especially languages.

Agree. I’ve only seen DM on YouTube, so l may be missing something, but the fact that they have cast a trans woman in this role at all , let alone one who seems to think womanhood is mostly about dressing in floaty clothes and going shopping, is deeply insulting to the women who suffered at Henry’s hands simply because of their biology.

Stunt casting. The Broadway show seems to have a lot of empty seats, maybe they're trying to appeal to what they think of as a core audience when they'd be better trying to expand the show's reach by casting female celebs.

Writer Toby Marlow took over the London role of Parr at one point and frankly, having seen video clips, I'd have got my money back. Will DM be any better? He's an odd and possibly unlucky choice.

😂😂😂

Cast Tom Holland and I’ll come and see it like a shot (look for him dancing to Umbrella)

I'd watch Tom Holland in anything tbh. But be warned, him doing the Umbrella dance must be at least 6 hours long.

The pantomime dame point doesn't work here though, this is a show about real women, some of whom were murdered because they weren't 'woman' enough to produce a healthy son. Their womanhood was the whole point of their role as queen, and the only reason they were chosen in the first place. Tbf, I dont know anything about Six, and the format does sounds quite fresh and fun, but if its some sort of parody, it would make more sense if all of the roles were performed by trans women, or even drag queens. Just putting one in there doesn't make any sense, especially to play the arguably most glamorous, intelligent, strong one, except as a fuck you to women.

I always felt this show was deeply disrespectful to the real lives of the women portrayed anyway. They lived and died with so much dignity how could they not be horrified by this shite.

Casting a man is obviously deeply insulting. These are not Disney characters.

I loathe musical theatre at the best of times (stop fucking singing and GET ON WITH IT) so I’d rather stand in Lego than watch Dylan gurn his way through his usual performatively offensive woman face.

Still, I’m surprised they haven’t replaced the entire cast of women with drag queens.

Yuck. Could they not find an actual woman to play the role? Obviously a political statement, which is always a great basis for casting.

You first 🤷‍♀️

If they could have identified out of it, they likely would have wound up on a cold French battlefield instead.

Was our Eucalyptus-eating friend a PBP? All their posts seem to have been nixed.

You... you think the person discarded and beheaded because she did not bear a male child could actually have been a trans woman?

Never mind a hobby, I think you need some remedial classes 😂Biology, history and sociology would be a good start.

This isn’t about gender bending or pushing the boundaries of art… this is about a man playing a female part and the audience having to pretend they believe he is actually a woman, not playing a woman, actually a woman in real life.