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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘SIX the Musical' hits the stage Wednesday night
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — SIX the Musical is on its North American Tour, and the cast is stopping in Sioux Falls this week. Gaby Albo is playing Anne Boleyn in the retold story of Henry VIII and his wives. 'I think it's a masterpiece of how it was so smartly written to merge this very real, old story. And bring it to a very modern, contemporary, concert-like, female empowering show and celebrating our own uniqueness. I think it's all very fresh and very smartly put together,' said Gaby Albo, who plays Anne Boleyn in SIX. Jamie Smith to make announcement Saturday As for her character, Albo says everyone has a different twist on how she's played. 'I think I have a very, like, unique, unique take on Anne Boleyn. They always let us choose our queenspirations, how we call them in rehearsals. And my queenspiration would be if Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande had a daughter. I think that would be my Boleyn. It doesn't have to be the same queenspiration as one of my understudies, for example,' said Albo. Although the Washington Pavilion has hosted Broadway shows before, SIX is one of the newest shows to hit their stage. 'So, SIX is really a pretty brand new musical. And really, it's still in New York on Broadway. And so it was one we were really excited to get to this market, because it's so, pretty new out in the traveling world. And so, yeah, we're excited to have it here. And it's why it's here for kind of a longer run than some of the other typical Broadway shows you'll see,' said Kerri DeGraff, COO of the Washington Pavilion. And if you're still not sold on buying tickets, take it from the director of sales, who just saw SIX on Broadway- and plans to see it twice this weekend. 'This musical is a reality TV style competition between the six queens to decide who had it the worst, like whose life was truly the hardest. And so we get to hear their stories from their perspective in song. So it's rock, it's pop, it's musical theater, and it's just a spectacle. It is incredible. One of my favorite musicals that I've ever seen,' said Tim Sax, director of sales at the Washington Pavilion, who saw the musical recently. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
News18
19-05-2025
- News18
Top 10 Haunted Places Around The World That'll Give You The Creeps
1/11 From islands and forests to castles, towers, and plantations, many places around the world are thought to be haunted. Our minds are easily influenced, especially in locations with spooky reputations. Some visitors expect ghosts and get spooked by every creak, while others stay sceptical and leave saying, 'Nothing happened.' Whether you're a believer or a sceptic, these top 10 haunted places offer a fascinating glimpse into the world of ghost stories, folklore, and the eerie thrill of the unknown. 1. Bhangarh Fort – Rajasthan, India: Let's dive into the eerie side of things with a popularly haunted location in India -Bhangarh Fort. Legend says the fort was cursed by a wizard who fell in love with the local princess. When she rejected him, he cast a deadly spell that led to the town's ruin. Locals claim to hear strange voices and footsteps after dark, even though the area is officially abandoned. Often referred to as the most haunted place in India, the Archaeological Survey of India strictly prohibits entry after sunset. 3/11 2. The Myrtles Plantation – Louisiana, USA: Built in 1796, the Myrtles Plantation is rumoured to be the site of over 10 murders and is said to be haunted by Chloe, a former enslaved woman. Now a bed and breakfast, it offers ghost tours. While some visitors feel nothing unusual, others report eerie sounds like piano music and children's laughter. 3. The Tower of London, England: With over 1,000 years of history, the Tower of London, located on the River Thames in London, is infamous for royal executions and torture. Said to be haunted by figures like Anne Boleyn, it's known for unexplained footsteps and eerie apparitions. This historic landmark, once a royal palace, prison, and execution site, is considered one of the most haunted places in the world, with countless ghost stories and paranormal tales. 4. Poveglia Island – Venice, Italy: People were sent to die here. Once used as a quarantine zone for the Bubonic plague victims of 1348 and later as a mental asylum, this island is said to be haunted by thousands of restless spirits. It is now off-limits to the public due to safety concerns. 5. Edinburgh Castle, Scotland: Edinburgh Castle is one of the oldest and most historically significant castles in Scotland. Steeped in history with wars and executions, Edinburgh Castle is known for its eerie reputation. Visitors often report phantom footsteps, voices, and sightings of figures in period clothing. 9/11 8. Wadi al-Jinn (Jinns' Valley), Saudi Arabia: Wadi al-Jinn, near Mecca in Saudi Arabia, is infamous for its eerie reputation linked to jinns (supernatural beings in Arabian folklore). Locals report strange occurrences like vehicle malfunctions, odd noises, and unsettling feelings. Its association with jinn mythology has captured the imagination of both locals and tourists alike, and this remote place continues to be a source of intrigue and fear. 9. The Forbidden City in Beijing, China: The Forbidden City, home to emperors and officials for nearly 500 years, is steeped in power struggles and tragedy. Its dark history, including murders, assassinations, and mysterious deaths, has led to ghost stories. Visitors report strange noises, footsteps, and feelings of being watched, with many believing the spirit of Empress Dowager Cixi still haunts the palace.
IOL News
15-05-2025
- General
- IOL News
On this day in history, May 15
1525 At the battle of Frankenhausen, a German peasant army is surrounded and 5 000 of their number are slaughtered, effectively ending the peasants' uprising. 1536 Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England, and her brother George, Lord Rochford, stand trial, accused of adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially selected jury, freeing King Henry VIII to marry again. 1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun. (What would a lawyer want with one? – Ed)1793 Spaniard Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for 360m, at a height of 5–6m, in one of the first manned flights. 1900 General Buller's troops capture Dundee and Glencoe from the Boers. 1911 More than 300 Chinese immigrants are massacred when Mexican revolutionaries take the city of Torreón from the Federales. 1928 Mickey Mouse's first appearance in the silent film, Plane Crazy. 1936 Pilot Amy Johnson lands after a record flight of 12 days, 15 hours from London to Cape Town and back. 1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. 1945 The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish of World War II in Europe, is fought in Slovenia. 1948 Neighbouring Arab states simultaneously attack Israel. 1990 Brothel keeper Lindi St Clair, aka Miss Whiplash, loses her 15-year battle against Britain's taxman, who was prosecuting her because it considered prostitution to be a trade, prompting St Clair to say the taxmen were 'nothing more than Her Majesty's pimps', a sentiment that might be widely agreed with. 2010 Jessica Watson, 16, becomes the youngest person to sail non-stop and unassisted around the world. 2018 The 19km-long Kerch bridge (the longest in Europe), linking Russia and annexed Crimea, is opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin. 2019 Findings from China's Chang'e-4 moonrover suggests a huge asteroid created the giant crater on the moon's far side with an impact so great that it cracked its crust and reached the mantle below.
Telegraph
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
1536: Gen Z does Tudor England – and it's startlingly effective
We're in a bucolic Essex marsh in 1536. Anna is wiping herself down after a romp against a tree with her wealthy (and betrothed) lover Richard. But then news arrives from London (it's taken three days to travel): the Queen has been arrested. Anna and her friends Jane and Mariella know this is vaguely significant (ditzy Jane struggles to remember the King's name), but they also can't believe a King would throw his wife in the tower. She'll be out in a few days says Anna. She's probably free already. Ava Pickett's effervescent, extremely funny debut refreshes the tired story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn by filtering it through the perspective of three market village girls who look like Tudor peasants but speak like potty-mouthed Gen Zedders. In this hidden place among the reeds, which under set designer Max Jones seems to glow like a Vermeer painting, these women speak their minds with a subversive, forthright clarity that would never be afforded them publicly, or indeed one assumes in 1536 at all. Siena Kelly's playful, radiant Anna (whose name nods to Boleyn) loves the power her beauty has over the village men, although privately she craves stability and love. Liv Hill's endearingly guileless, soon to be married Jane (Seymour?) prefers to be good and play by the rules. Clever pragmatic Mariella (Tanya Reynolds), who is nursing a broken heart, intuitively understands that the world is not made for women like Anna. Pickett posits that the treatment of Anne Boleyn by Henry and his court – effectively a proto-case of slut-shaming – is a paradigm moment of almost mythic force in the virulent history of the gender wars. She gives her thesis lively succour too, as the news of further arrests and the shift in public opinion in London against the Queen gather like a dust cloud on the horizon, turning this summer-scorched pocket of merrie England into a place of fomenting male violence and sexual hatred. Newly married Jane is spotted in the market with a black eye. Anna is learning that her power only goes so far. Mariella tries to warn Anna of the forces gathering against her but then finds herself engulfed in a crisis that threatens them all. Much of the energy of Lyndsey Turner's artfully stylised, superbly performed production comes from the back-and-forth banter between these three women, whose scythe-like wit and anachronistic irreverence dazzle like rain in the sun. For too long, however, the repartee is a substitute for actual drama, and when that drama suddenly erupts, it's too much too late. And although Pickett blends together 16th and 21st century sensibilities with audacious skill, her points about female value and agency are ultimately familiar, while a stylised moment from Turner that has Anna hurling herself about in frustration has a crudeness the dialogue largely avoids. Yet Pickett characterises her protagonists with eye-popping vitality and, thanks in no small part to outstanding performances from Reynolds, Kelly and Hill, in ways that vividly energise our understanding of historic female experience at the hands of men. 'I just keep, thinking about, about what she must've been thinking,' says Jane of the newly executed Anne Boleyn. 'About whether she knew, did she know, that her husband would do that to her?'
San Francisco Chronicle
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Today in History: May 19, West Virginia's Matewan Massacre
Today is Monday, May 19, the 139th day of 2025. There are 226 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 19, 1920, ten people were killed in a gun battle between coal miners, who were led by a local police chief, and a group of private security guards hired to evict them for joining a union in Matewan, West Virginia. Also on this date: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded at the Tower of London after being convicted of adultery. In 1883, William Cody held the first of his 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West' shows in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants. In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, where the two leaders agreed on May 1, 1944, as the date for the D-Day invasion of France (expansion plans for the invasion caused the date of the landing to be delayed by a month). In 1962, film star Marilyn Monroe sang 'Happy Birthday to You' to President John F. Kennedy during a Democratic fundraiser at New York's Madison Square Garden. In 2018, Britain's Prince Harry wed American actor Meghan Markle in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Today's Birthdays: TV personality David Hartman is 90. Musician-composer Pete Townshend (The Who) is 80. Singer-actor Grace Jones is 77. Former racing driver Dario Franchitti is 52. Basketball Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett is 49. Country musician-producer Shooter Jennings is 46. Comedian-actor Michael Che is 42. Singer Sam Smith is 33. Media personality-singer JoJo Siwa is 22.
