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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Interviews by Chris Wiegand

‘Anne Boleyn’s tiara was from Claire’s Accessories’ – how we made Six: The Musical

‘The format was inspired by Beyoncé’s Live at Roseland show’ … Six at the Arts theatre.
‘The format was inspired by Beyoncé’s Live at Roseland show’ … Six at the Arts theatre. Photograph: Idil Sukan/Draw

Lucy Moss, co-writer

In 2017, Cambridge University’s musical theatre society invited applications for an original show that it could take to the Edinburgh fringe. Toby Marlow and I were third years at the university, and had talked about doing a musical together for ages, so he applied, saying he would write a show with pop music and lots of women at its centre. Representation of women on stage was in the cultural conversation – later that year #MeToo happened.

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