SIX uses pop songs, sparkly outfits and girl power toreframe the lives of Henry VIII’s six ill-fated queens

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Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived.

The opening words of SIX share what many audience members already know: the grim fates of the half-dozen women successively wed to England’s famously fickle 16th-century king, Henry VIII.

But what the pop-filled musical hopes to illuminate in the next 80 minutes are some of the true details — with plenty of humor and sassy, modern lingo — of each of their lives, overshadowed for far too long by the legacy of the lecherous and selfish man who,

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