{"id":295432,"date":"2026-07-14T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295432\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:53:12","slug":"original-u-k-queens-natalie-paris-and-aimie-atkinson-to-join-six-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295432\/","title":{"rendered":"Original U.K. Queens Natalie Paris and Aimie Atkinson to Join Six on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’re the queens of SIX: The Musical<\/a>‘s Broadway castle (aka the Lena Horne Theatre)!<\/p>\n

Two of the original U.K. stars of SIX are joining the Broadway Queendom.\u00a0Natalie Paris and Aimie Atkinson, the Olivier Award-nominated original Jane Seymour<\/a> and Katherine Howard, will make their Broadway debuts when they join\u00a0the cast of the Tony-winning musical beginning August 17.<\/p>\n

Paris and Atkinson will succeed Jasmine Forsberg<\/a> and Abigail Barlow<\/a>, respectively, who both depart August 16. Paris and Atkinson will join the previously announced<\/a> Chloe Tucker Caine (Owning Manhattan) as Anne Boleyn and Stephanie Jae Park<\/a> (Hamilton) as Catherine Parr, who also begin their runs August 17. Khaila Wilcoxon<\/a> and Olivia Donalson<\/a> will continue in their respective roles as Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves. Paris will play a limited run through\u00a0December 13, and Atkinson will play her final performance at the matinee October 31, with the rest of the company\u00a0playing into 2027.<\/p>\n

The Broadway production of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss<\/a>‘ international hit musical SIX\u2014about the six wives of Henry VIII\u2014has been running since 2020. The current cast features Khaila Wilcoxon (Redwood, Hadestown) as Catherine of Aragon, Kirsten Maldonado (Pentatonix), Jasmine Forsberg (Stephen Sondheim\u2019s Old Friends) as Jane Seymour, Olivia Donalson (Dolly: The Dolly Parton Musical) as Anna of Cleves, Grammy winner Abigail Barlow (The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical Album, Disney\u2019s Moana 2) as Katherine Howard, and Aiyana Smash<\/a> (Rent) as Catherine Parr. The cast also includes Lauryn Adams<\/a>, Aryn Bohannon<\/a>, Maggie Likcani<\/a>, and Taylor Pearlstein<\/a> as alternates.<\/p>\n

Marlow and Moss\u2019 musical is co-directed by Moss and Jamie Armitage<\/a> and features choreography by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille<\/a>, scenic design by Emma Bailey<\/a>, costume design by Gabriella Slade<\/a>, lighting design by Tim Deiling<\/a>, and sound design by Paul Gatehouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The score features orchestrations by Tom Curran<\/a> with music supervision and vocal arrangements by Joe Beighton<\/a> and U.S. music supervision by Roberta Duchak<\/a>. Casting is by The TRC Company<\/a>‘s Peter Van Dam.<\/p>\n

Theater Matters<\/a> is general manager, Sam Levy<\/a> is associate producer, and Lucas McMahon<\/a> is U.S. executive producer.<\/p>\n

Six won the 2022 Tony for Best Original Score (music and lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. The West End production continues at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.<\/p>\n

Visit SixOnBroadway.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They’re the queens of SIX: The Musical‘s Broadway castle (aka the Lena Horne Theatre)! Two of the original…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-295432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}