Funny / Six: The Musical

• American productions, right before the queens' self-introduction in "Ex-Wives": "Remember us from PBS?"^note (Possibly a reference to The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which aired on PBS in North America.)
  • The Australian production featured the line "Remember us from your HSC?"^note (High School Certificate, for any non-Australians.)
  • The original British production had it as "Remember us from your GCSEs?"^note (The General Certificate of Secondary Education, for the non-Anglo-informed.)
• In "Ex-Wives":
  • Jane Seymour introduces herself as "the only one [Henry] truly loved", which the other queens do not appreciate.
    Every other Queen, simultaneously: Rude!
  • The Queens' increasing annoyance quoting the "Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived" rhyme about them.
  • The segue between Anna of Cleves and Katherine Howard.
    Anna of Cleves: But I didn't look as good as I did in my pic,
    It's funny how we all discuss that and never Henry's little–
    Katherine Howard: Prick up your ears, I'm the Katherine who lost her head…
• Catherine of Aragon's intro is funny in all kinds of ways:
  Catherine of Aragon: But there's only one you need to hear from tonight. London, I'm about to win this competition! Maria, give me a beat! (Maria starts playing drums) Oh muy bien! So, since the day I arrived in England, let's just say that my fate has been tested on more than one occasion. First thing's first, I was shipped over from Spain on the night of my sweet sixteen to marry some prince called Arthur and I was like, "Okay." But then, Arthur dies, so... naturally, I'm imprisoned for seven years!? REALLY HELPED WITH THE GRIEVING PROCESS, YOU KNOW, BUT STILL, I'M LIKE OKAY! But, thanks God, they rescue me just in time to marry Prince Henry. My dead husband's brother. Okay… so I'm like, "Bit weird," but if you haven't seen him back in the summer of '09, let me tell you, HE WAS Okay! So, seven years later, we are still trying for an heir and he's trying really hard and I'm like, "Ah, okay!" And then, he starts coming home late! "I was just out with my ministers." But there's lipstick on his ruff? But still, I'm like, "Okay." Then, he wants to annul our marriage, move some side chick into my palace and move me into a convent. Now, now, now. I just don't think I will look that good in a wimple. So, I'm like, "No way."
  • This particular introduction of Catherine of Aragon is hilarious:
    Catherine: MARIA! Give me a beat.
    (Maria starts on the drums. Catherine's eyebrows rise as if she's thinking "Oh, we're going down this route? OK, I can work with this!" and she turns back to face Maria, smirking.)
• During "No Way", Catherine of Aragon points out she did have a kid, Mary.
  Chorus: Daughters are so easy to forget!
• During Anne Boleyn's introduction, the other queens are actually hyping her up instead of dismissing the tragedies they lived through. How is this uncharacteristic compassion answered by Boleyn? Her not knowing the song was about to start, dicking around on her phone.
• During "Don't Lose Ur Head":
  Anne: I didn't know I would move in with his missus!
  Others: WHAT?!
  Anne: Get a life!
  Others: You're living with his wife?!
  • During a break between verses, Mendelssohn's famous "Wedding March" is played on electric guitar while Anne beatifically walks across the stage and the other queens act as the sobbing attendees — then Anne tosses the imaginary bouquet and all five lunge for it in a freeze-frame pose, with Anna pulling Katherine Howard back by her ponytail.
  • As the song comes to a close and Anne sings about Henry wanted to have her executed, the other queens keep singing until Anne screams:
    Anne: Oh my god, guys, seriously, he's actually gonna chop my head off!!! (Beat) I mean... I guess he really liked my head. (briefly mimes fellatio with her mic)
  • Further, after her initial song she tries to do another. But the only line we hear?
    Anne: Catherine was a MASSIVE C–!
    Other Queens: WHOA!
• Jane Seymour does her pre-song bit and says that she isn't sure Henry was really as uncaring or stone-hearted as his reputation suggests, only for Anne Boleyn to chime in, "Yeah, actually, come to think of it, there was this one really cute time where I had a daughter and he chopped my head off."
• This exchange after Jane's song:
  Jane Seymour: What hurts more than a broken heart?
  Anne Boleyn: A severed head.
• Practically all of "Haus of Holbein".^note JA! DAS IS GUT, OOH JA!
• Anna of Cleves bemoaning her utterly tragic fate of being rejected by Henry and moved into her own castle with crap-tons of money. Very heartbreaking, indeed.
• Katherine Howard's roast of the other Queens before her song, "All You Wanna Do", after they call her "the least relevant Katherine", and doubt that she could compete with them.
  Katherine Howard: You're right. I'm gonna need all of the luck I could get. Your lives sounded really terrible. And your songs... really helped to convey that. I mean, Catherine, almost moving into a nunnery and then not? That almost could've been really hard for you. And Anne, getting your head chopped off; surely that means you'll win the competition. Oh wait... Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded– Oh, Wait!… Nevermind. And Jane, dying of natural causes. … WHEN WILL JUSTICE BE SERVED?! (to Parr) And surviving… but seriously, Anna, all jokes aside, getting rejected for your looks legit sounds really rough. I wouldn't know anything about that. I mean, look at me; I'm really fit. So yeah, I can't even begin to think of how I could compete with you all. Oh, Wait! Like this!
• Howard's description of Henry during "All You Wanna Do":
  Globally revered, although you wouldn't know it from the look of that beard.
• After "All You Wanna Do", the Queens (minus Parr and Cleves) fight over who gets to be the lead girl of the band. Naturally, considering the overall sassy character of all the Queens, this turns into a snark battle royale as they all try to one-up each other's tragedies:
  • Boleyn, in answer to Howard's song, notes very earnestly that none of them could imagine how terrible being manipulated by men her whole life could be, right before "realizing" that she did experience that.
  • Aragon goes on a rant about how terrible she was treated by Henry, only for both Annes and Howard to remark how similar it was to their lives.
    Catherine of Aragon: I was literally shipped over from a foreign country, not knowing a single word of English, to marry some random dude!
    Anna of Cleves: (excitedly) Oh my God, same!
    Catherine of Aragon: (taken aback) Okay, fine, fine. But then, when Henry decided he'd had enough of me, he didn't even have the decency to say goodbye–
    Anne Boleyn: Same.
    Katherine Howard: Oh yeah, same. Nice neck, by the way. (high-fives Anne Boleyn)
  • Jane's answer to Aragon bemoaning that Henry didn't let her see Mary when the latter had a fever:
    Jane Seymour: Oh boo-hoo! Baby Mary had the chickenpox and you weren't there to hold her hand! You know, it's funny, because when I wanted to hold my newborn son, I DIED!^note Even funnier as it's the one time Jane gets mad.
  • After Jane's outburst, Anna of Cleves announces that she has the plague, only to add, "LOL, just kidding, my life's amazing!" after a beat.
    • Before the COVID-19 Pandemic, the queens collectively react with a heartwarming concerned Big "WHAT?!" and moving towards her. After the show reopened post-lockdown, they react by leaning away from Cleves.
  • Catherine of Aragon calling Anne Boleyn, "Anne Bo-loser".
• Catherine Parr points out she actually has something in common with Henry.
  Parr: I've also had my fair share of marriages. Though, unlike Henry, I managed to get through them without decapitating anyone. I know; gold star for Cathy Parr.
• During "I Don't Need Your Love", when Parr quizzes the others on why they're all remembered.
  Parr: Okay, look. Why does anyone know who we are?
  Boleyn: (triumphantly, holding up her six-fingered hand) My sixth finger!
  Aragon: (exasperated, yanking Anne's hand down) Put it away, babe!
  • During the same break in the song, Katherine Howard actually knowing who Henry V's wife was^note "Catherine de Valois!— I mean, I don't know...", and this exchange:
    Howard: Yeah... but isn't there a bigger problem here?
    Aragon: (fervently) The dissolution of the monasteries!?
    Howard: ...Nope. I'm talking about us 'cause when we get together as a group it just–
    Boleyn: Everyone notices Jane can't dance!
• In Jane's imaginary happy ending from "Six" she calls her group "the Tudor Von Trapps":
  "Just kidding, we're called The Royal-ling stones." (Beat) "Heh..."

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