By Molly Higgins
Originally published on playbill.com
It’s time for a historemix! Broadway’s SIX the Musical will welcome a new cast of queens to the Lena Horne Theatre beginning February 19.
The new company will feature Najah Hetsberger (& Juliet) as Catherine of Aragon, Gianna Yanelli (Mean Girls) as Anne Boleyn, Kelsie Watts (The Voice) as Jane Seymour, Krystal Hernandez (SIX) as Anna of Cleves, Kay Sibal (The Voice) as Katherine Howard, and Taylor Marie Daniel (Once Upon a Mattress) as Catherine Parr. Watts, Hernandez, and Sibal will all be making their Broadway debuts in the production.
The score features orchestrations by Tom Curran with music supervision and vocal arrangements by Joe Beighton and U.S. music supervision by Roberta Duchak. Casting is by Tara Rubin Casting‘s Peter Van Dam.
Theater Matters is general manager, Sam Levy is associate producer, and Lucas McMahon is U.S. executive producer.
Six won the 2022 Tony for Best Original Score (music and lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. The West End production continues at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, on tour in the U.K., and on tour throughout Europe and Australia. An engagement in Singapore begins November 14, and in Tokyo in January 2025.
