Shout Out / Six: The Musical

• The musical style, in general, is very evocative of girl groups and female pop stars: from Britney Spears to Destiny's Child to Little Mix to Charli XCX to Beyoncé.
• Katherine Howard's high ponytail is a blatant reference to Ariana Grande's iconic hairstyle.
• While the opening rhyme has existed since at least the 19th century, it's deployed here in a way that's very similar to the intro to Cell Block Tango.
• Catherine of Aragon, depending on the production, asks the audience if they remember the queens from PBS, The History Channel, or their GCSEs.
• Catherine Parr proclaims, "Every (Tudor) Rose Has Its Thorns".
• Anne Boleyn calls herself "that Boleyn girl".
• Jane Seymour also gets the line "stick around and you'll suddenly see more".
• Catherine Parr declares, "I'm the survivor."
  • In "I Don't Need Your Love", the melody she sings all the women/could independently study scripture on comes from Independent Woman.
• Anne Boleyn sings the first line of "Wannabe".
  Tell me what you want, what you really really want! [Beat] ...To know.
• The backing percussion/clapping to the verses of "Don't Lose Ur Head" sound very similar to "Mickey" by Toni Basil.
• Anne Boleyn employs the use of the nursery rhyme "three in the bed, and the little one said..." to describe her situation with Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
  ...if you wanna be wed, make up your mind!
• Anne Boleyn humorously calls herself "prêt à manger", referencing the UK-based restaurant chain Pret A Manger.
• The matchmaking scene that takes place after "Haus of Holbein" references Tinder as an off-stage Henry "swipes" left or right to denote his decision on each prospective wife.
• "Get Down" has the line "Okay, ladies, let's get in reformation."
  • It also has "I ain't saying I'm a gold digger…"
• "All You Wanna Do" has an extremely similar beat, hook, and riff to "Womanizer" by Britney Spears.
• Katherine Howard claims she was "13 Going on 30" when she allegedly lost her virginity to Henry Mannox.
  • She also refers to Henry Mannox as "Music Man" during "Six".
  • The melodic line for "And maybe this is it" is a pared-down version of the melodic line for "I dreamed a dream in time gone by" in "I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Misérables, which is also a young woman recounting being used and abandoned by a man whom she thought loved her but only wanted to use her for sex (and who eventually died because of the consequences).
• "You could perhaps call us the Tudor Von Trapps. I'm just kidding. We're called The Royalling Stones."