Andrea Macasaet Is, Like, a Totally Modern Queen
glamour.comBy “Nice neck, by the way.” During the 80-minute Broadway musical Six, this brief line—delivered to a fellow actor by 28-year-old Andrea Macasaet with what quickly becomes her character’s signature petulance—brought down the house the February evening I saw the performance.
Macasaet plays Anne Boleyn, so you’ll understand the uproar. Before it opened, buzz around Six's Broadway debut was strong——thanks in part to successful runs in Chicago and on London's West End and the unprecedented popularity of the show's studio recording, which——had been streamed 100,000,000 times on Spotify and Apple Music.
Some referred to the musical, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss while still students at Cambridge University, as a feminist Hamilton of sorts, which isn't wildly off base in some respects.
Like Hamilton, Six cracks open the dusty history books and brings its source material up to date with unapologetic anachronism while sharing its disregard for historical accuracy in terms of casting.
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