Six the Musical review: Kick-ass musical about Henry VIII's wives channels its inner Beyoncé

One of the many joyous upshots of Hamilton is that it has stretched our idea of what might combine to make up a hit musical.

Thus we now have the six wives of Henry VIII as a kick-ass girl band, singing their hearts out — or should that be their heads off? — on their Divorced Beheaded Live tour. This is quite the most uplifting piece of new British musical theatre I have ever had the privilege to watch and the fact that it comes from two 23-year-olds, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, who graduated only last year, is even more delightful.

Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anna, Katherine and Catherine are tired of being defined by their husband and reproductive biology and want to claim their rightful place in her-story. They sing and dance up a storm in this production from co-directors Moss and Jamie Armitage, as each give her version of events. Cheeky Ms Boleyn (Millie O’Connell) has some of the sassiest lyrics: “I tried to elope/ but the pope said ‘nope’”, she tells us, before reassuring us about Henry’s ecclesiastical crisis: “Everybody chill/ it’s totes God’s will”.

The women channel the likes of Beyoncé, Avril Lavigne and Adele in their song styles but even better than these is Haus of Holbein, the thumping German electro-pop ode to painter Hans Holbein.

This is performed, of course, in light-up green neon ruffs. Five stars for Six? I think so.

Until Oct 14 (020 7836 8463, sixthemusical.com)