Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 2/14/24 at 10:17am
‘Six’ Creators Announce Their Second Act - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow spent years working out how to follow their hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives. “Why Am I So Single?” is their answer.
Lucy Moss, left, and Toby Marlow, the creators of “Six,” said their new musical is “about friendship and love and loneliness and everything that goes with it.”
In January 2019, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, the creators of the musical “Six,” were on a writer’s retreat in Connecticut, wondering how to follow up their celebrated first show.
That month, “Six” — in which Henry VIII’s wives tell their stories via pop songs — was starting a major West End run, and a Broadway transfer was on the horizon. The show had already been a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a growing number of American fans were streaming the show’s soundtrack. More and more, people wanted to know what the pair would do next.
During the Connecticut retreat, they struggled to come up with new ideas, Marlow recalled in a recent interview, and instead gossiped about their love lives. Then, they had a breakthrough: “Maybe this is what we should write about,” Marlow said.
On Wednesday, Marlow, 29, and Moss, 30, announced that their second musical, “Why Am I So Single?,” will open at the Garrick Theater in London on Aug. 27.
The show, which has a 12-person cast, follows two friends struggling to write a musical and asking each other why they’re chronically single. That idea may sound similar to the creators’ time in Connecticut, but Moss, laughing nervously, said it was “definitely not a complete autobiography.”
Marlow said that the musical, which includes songs inspired by Dua Lipa hits and numbers from “Singin’ in the Rain,” was “about friendship and love and loneliness and everything that goes with it.”
#2Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 2/14/24 at 12:47pm
I hope this is still running when I come back later this year!
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
RW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#3Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 2/14/24 at 1:55pm
The song '8/Eight Dates' from today's press launch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2EiSZSlkQ
susanphillips
Swing Joined: 2/5/24
#4Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 2/14/24 at 11:42pm
RW3 said: "The song '8/Eight Dates' from today's press launch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2EiSZSlkQ minecraftle game"
Wow! It sounds so catchy. Love this!
#5Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 9/3/24 at 3:37am
Any words from the first previews? Really enjoyed the promo single they have been pushing.
"Lentils are one thing..."
#6Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 9/3/24 at 3:52am
TalksAboutBruno said: "Any words from the first previews? Really enjoyed the promo single they have been pushing."
I found the score to be very good overall and the two lead performances were strong. It’s funny, with laugh out loud moments all the way through. Act one goes at a nice pace and act two starts well but some real work needed to improve the pacing because act two drags and drags. They could do with cutting a good 10-15 minutes, some are either unnecessary or two long and they just couldn’t seem to find a way to finish it.
#7Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 9/3/24 at 3:55am
I would say the early buzz seems mixed to negative sadly.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Neill Graham
Swing Joined: 8/31/24
#8Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 9/3/24 at 9:58am
Guess I'll be waiting for Why Am I Still Single? next. Maybe that’ll have the answers we all need!
BETTY22
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/13
#9Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 9/3/24 at 10:31am
I am super excited about this...SIX was a joy!
#10Marlow & Moss' SIX follow-up, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? musical, heads to the West End
Posted: 9/3/24 at 10:44am
binau said: "I would say the early buzz seems mixed to negative sadly."
That’s what I’ve heard too. Which is a shame because I appreciate the gutsiness and originality of (semi)autobiographical musicals.
Oh look, a bibu!
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