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SIX THE MUSICAL: NEW QUEENS
ASCEND THE THRONE!
The producers of Toby Marlow and
Lucy Moss’s award-winning global smash
hit SIX have revealed the new Queens who
will take up their crowns in the West End
from Tuesday 24 February, as the homegrown musical sensation continues its run
at the Vaudeville, now booking until
January 2027.
Adrianne Langley will play ‘Catherine
of Aragon’, while Marisha Morgan joins
the Queendom as ‘Anne Boleyn’. Jessica
Aubrey is ‘Jane Seymour’, with Freya
Karlettis as ‘Anna of Cleves’, Leesa Tulley
as ‘Katherine Howard’, and Nia Stephen
will make her West End debut as
‘Catherine Parr’.
Think you know the six Wives of Henry
VIII? Think again...
Prepare to lose your head and
experience the Tudor Wives’ lives as they
turn back the clock and take to the stage
to reclaim their crowns and retell their
stories of love, loss and the infamous ex
they all have in common.
Join Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves,
Howard and Parr, backed by their fierce
on-stage band, the Ladies in Waiting, and
Get Down to a royal retelling of the
sassiest story in British Her-story.
This newly announced company
follows a remarkable period of
international celebration for the musical.
Autumn 2025 saw SIX welcome its
original Japanese Queens for a special
one-week residency at the Vaudeville
Theatre, where the production was
performed entirely in Japanese with
English captions – a UK first. The
residency drew both critical and audience
acclaim, reaffirming the show’s global
resonance and its deepening relationship
with international audiences.
2025 also saw the launch of the SIX
the Musical Afternoon Tea at The Soho
Hotel, a limited-edition collaboration
running through to February 2026.
SIX is produced by Kenny Wax, Wendy
& Andy Barnes and George Stiles.
WINNIE-THE-POOH CENTENARY
CELEBRATIONS
To mark 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh,
publisher Farshore is releasing beautiful
new editions of the four A.A. Milne
and E.H. Shepard classic titles –
including facsimile editions – and the
authorised prequel and sequels in
hardback and paperback. The anniversary
branding and new jackets have been
designed by Micaela Alcaino, who won
Designer of the Year in 2022 at the British
Book Awards. The first books were
published in October 2025, with further
titles coming this year.
This October, 100 years after the first
publication of Winnie-the-Pooh, Farshore
will release A Little Boy and His Bear, a
new authorised sequel written by Jane
Riordan and illustrated by Andrew Grey.
A.A. Milne was born in London in
1882. He began his literary career as
editor of Granta magazine, and was
assistant editor of Punch, later becoming
a highly successful writer of plays, poems
and novels. He based Winnie-the-Pooh
and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger,
Kanga and Roo on the real nursery toys of
his son Christopher Robin. In 1925,
Winnie-the-Pooh made his first
appearance in a Christmas story in the
London Evening News. The following
year, Winnie-the-Pooh was published and
was an instant success, as was The House
at Pooh Corner, in 1928. Since then, Pooh
has become a world-famous bear, and
Milne’s stories have been translated
into seventy-two languages.
E.H. Shepard was born in London in
1879. He won a scholarship to the Royal
Academy Schools and later worked as
an artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
Shepard’s witty and loving decorations of
Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the
Hundred Acre Wood have become an
inseparable part of the Pooh stories, and
classics in their own right.
© The Trustees of The Pooh Properties
The Trustees of The Shepard Trust and
Harper Collins Publishers Limited
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