It was a regal affair in Soho on Monday night, as the cast and creatives behind Six the Musical gathered at the Ham Yard Hotel for the premiere of Six the Musical Live!, ahead of its UK cinema release on 6 April 2025.

The filmed version captures the West End phenomenon live at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, with the original cast, full band, and electric audience energy all intact. Naturally, the premiere brought out the full royal court.

In attendance were all six queens: Jarnéia Richard-Noel (Catherine of Aragon), Millie O’Connell (Anne Boleyn), Natalie Paris (Jane Seymour), Alexia McIntosh (Anna of Cleves), Aimie Atkinson (Katherine Howard), and Maiya Quansah-Breed (Catherine Parr). They were joined by co-creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, producers Wendy and Andy Barnes, Kenny Wax, Dionne Orrom and George Stiles, among many others.

Millie O’Connell, reprising her role as Anne Boleyn in the film, shared which modern artist her queen might collaborate with: “Anne Boleyn would definitely want to get on some Paramore tracks,” she said. “She would love to be in the studio with Hayley Williams… to create some really cool pop punk bangers.”

Alexia McIntosh, who plays Anna of Cleves (yes, you read that right, her name was changed for the production) spoke candidly about the power dynamics women still navigate today. “There’s a lot of oppression,” she said. “You have to really have tenacity. You have to have a backbone and be able to say, ‘Excuse me, no. I’m here and I have a voice, and you’re going to hear it.’”

Filming a stage show is no easy task, especially when trying to keep the buzz of a live performance alive. According to producer Andy Barnes, the magic is in the detail. “One wonderful thing is the reactions of all the other queens to the queen that’s in the moment,” he said. “Because you can cut between different sections so quickly, you get to see the expressions and the depth of interaction that all the queens have with each other, which I think makes it really special.”

For producer Wendy Barnes, it's all about capturing the audience’s reaction. “There’s a moment in Six – the final song, Six – where it’s the key change moment, which when it’s live, everyone suddenly starts clapping and cheering, and they’re so uplifted by it, and you think maybe you can’t recreate that in the movie version. But the camera angles, and the way that they film it, you feel like you’re there and you do get that, and that’s when I was like, ‘we’ve got this right.’”

(L to R) Kenny Wax, Andy Barnes, Wendy Barnes and George Stiles. (Image credit: Jed Cullen/Dave Benett)

Alexia McIntosh (Image credit: Jed Cullen/Dave Benett)

Six’s co-creator Toby Marlow reflected on the show's emotional Broadway chapter after being asked which moment in their history they’d rewrite, much like how the queens rewrite their own stories in the show. “I guess the day that we were meant to open on Broadway, and then it got shut down 'cause of Covid. That was a pretty dramatic 48 hours….”

Still, both they and co-creator Lucy Moss agreed they never imagined the show’s rise to global stardom when they first created it as a scrappy one-off for the Edinburgh Fringe in their early 20s. “We were like, ‘it’s gonna be a really fun month when the show’s on, and then that’ll be the end,” Moss admitted.

Clearly, fate, and the queens, had other plans.

Six the Musical Live! hits UK cinemas on 6 April.

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