SIX THE MUSICAL LIVE! MAKES HERS-TORY
ON OPENING WEEKEND
FURTHER SHOWS ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!
Following the one-day event cinema release of SIX THE MUSICAL LIVE! (April 6) across a record breaking 700 sites, Universal Pictures (UK) has reported the highest single day gross for an event cinema musical release ever. Further shows have been added due to popular demand through to 17th April. Information on further screenings can be found here.
Filmed over multiple shows at the Vaudeville Theatre, the pop-inspired musical brings the Original West End Cast of SIX the Musical Jarnéia Richard-Noel (Aragon), Millie O’Connell (Boleyn), Natalie Paris (Seymour), Alexia McIntosh (Cleves), Aimie Atkinson (Howard), and Maiya Quansah-Breed (Parr) right into the 21st century with, empowering performances, accompanied by the on-stage band, the Ladies in Waiting.
Watched by audiences of over 3.5 million, SIX the Musical, has become a global theatre phenomenon since it’s 2017 debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and this Cinematical success furthers the legacy that the Queendom is building.
Further analysis of the result with additional industry performance context:
- SIX THE MUSICAL LIVE! has broken the record for the highest opening day figure for a musical ever.
- SIX THE MUSICAL LIVE! has opened on the widest screen count in the UK for an event cinema release across 700 sites, beating TAYLOR SWIFT’s THE ERAS TOUR
- SIX THE MUSICAL LIVE! has delivered the 3rd highest single day gross for an event cinema title ever behind TAYLOR SWIFT’s opening Friday
Universal Pictures Content Group acquired UK theatrical rights for box office smash-hit and double TONY award-winning musical earlier this year. SIX the Musical Live! was recorded at the Vaudeville Theatre, London with the original West End cast reprising their roles.
Kezia Williams, MD – Universal Pictures UK & Eire said “We’re incredibly proud to have brought this empowering, joyous experience to cinemas across the UK & Ireland and to see audiences turn out in such force to crown it the new queen of event cinema. This record-breaking result shows what’s possible when bold, brilliant theatre meets the big screen”
Helen Parker, EVP – Universal Pictures Content Group said “It’s wonderful to see audiences and fans of the phenomenon that is SIX THE MUSICAL LIVE! come out in force and create history for the show in cinemas”.
Kenny Wax, Producer for SIX The Musical said: SIX’s journey from student production at the Edinburgh Fringe to London’s West End and now to cinemas is one that we are unbelievably proud of. We are thrilled that so many people across the UK and Ireland have come to experience it on their local big screen. We have no doubt that the cinema broadcast has brought SIX to audiences who may not otherwise have access to the West End or Touring production, and we hope we may have sparked a lifelong enjoyment of theatre for those who have had their first experience of musical theatre through seeing it this week.’
SIX is written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, with direction by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage. Choreography is by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, with set design by Emma Bailey, costume design by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Tim Deiling, sound design by Paul Gatehouse, musical orchestration by Tom Curran, and musical supervision by Joe Beighton, and casting by Pearson Casting.
SIX is produced by Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes and George Stiles.
Six the Musical Live! was directed for film by Liz Clare, and produced by Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes, George Stiles. It was Executively Produced bv Kevin McCollum and Produced for film by Dione Orrom.
Winner of over 35 international awards, including two 2022 Tony Awards, four WhatsOnStage awards, and nominated for five Oliviers, SIX can also be seen live on stage worldwide: as well as London’s West End, SIX continues to tour the UK (with new 2025 dates just announced), and throughout Europe and internationally. An Australian tour launched in August 2024, whilst dates in Manila, Singapore, Japan and South Korea have recently been completed, with forthcoming dates in China.
SIX is currently playing at Broadway’s Lena Horne Theatre, the tour continues to play cities throughout the US. In 2024, the show both achieved 1.5million followers globally – across YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok and Facebook in the UK, US, Australia, Korea and beyond – and hit another milestone achievement, with SIX the Musical (UK Studio Cast Recording) and the Grammy Award®-nominated SIX: LIVE ON OPENING NIGHT (the first Original Broadway Cast Recording ever recorded live on opening night) songs having been streamed in excess of one billion times.
Tickets to all international productions of SIX are available via sixthemusical.com