
Michelle Osbourne of "Six: The Musical"
Season 2 Episode 7 | 3m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
“Six: The Musical” band member Michelle Osbourne shares how music moves the story.
It's unusual for the band to be onstage for a Broadway musical, even more so for them to be actual characters. Michelle Osbourne, the bass player for “Six: The Musical” shares an inside peek into the world of the beloved Broadway pop concert.
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Michelle Osbourne of "Six: The Musical"
Season 2 Episode 7 | 3m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
It's unusual for the band to be onstage for a Broadway musical, even more so for them to be actual characters. Michelle Osbourne, the bass player for “Six: The Musical” shares an inside peek into the world of the beloved Broadway pop concert.
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♪ Divorced ♪ Katherine: ♪ Beheaded ♪ ♪ Survived ♪ Catherine of Aragorn: New York City, we are... My name is Michelle Osbourne, and I play Bessie on the bass.
♪ Listen up, let me tell you a story ♪ ♪ Welcome to the show, to the histo-remix ♪ "Six" is a very fun, very short, different type of show.
It's actually been described as, like, a Broadway pop concert.
Very comedic, very witty, very smart.
♪ But now we're ex-wives ♪ Osbourne: The show for me is quite different in that it's the take of the six wives of Henry VIII.
And I just feel like it definitely takes you through a journey of emotions as you watch the story of each queen play out.
Every queen has at least one big vocal moment built into their song.
♪ You can build me up ♪ Osbourne: For each queen, there's a style of music or artist that we all listen to today that has inspired and influenced the character and, actually, the music.
♪♪ We have four members of the playing band that are actually on stage.
We have drums, bass, guitar, electric, and our conductor and keyboard player.
Collectively known as "The Ladies in Waiting," but we've all been assigned characters which actually existed then during that time.
♪♪ So, I spend a lot of time with the band members, and I feel like it's a good bunch of amazing musicians who have done different genres and different circles.
And we've all come together to play on Broadway.
And I feel like our individual influences and our personal styles in music really do play out through what we're doing on stage.
♪♪ It feels an honor to be part of the Broadway community, especially because I was born and raised in the U.K. and I moved to New York not quite knowing how everything was gonna play out.
And Broadway is known throughout the entire world.
When we think about musical theater and we think about plays, Broadway for me is its highest platform.
So to be able to have an opportunity to be able to hold down a chair on Broadway is definitely something I don't take lightly.
And it's an honor.
It's full of different experiences and memories that I didn't expect, so I'm definitely happy to be on this journey.
♪♪ For me, one of the great things about playing on "Six" is that you get to see not only an all-female cast, but all-female band.
Just to see that typically across the board is really empowering.
And a lot of the time we see young girls in the crowd and they come and it's like the first time they've seen that representation on stage.
And I feel like it has more of an impact than we actually realize.
And that keeps me inspired to definitely keep giving 100% energy when I'm on stage.
We are Broadway.
♪ Six ♪ [ Cheers and applause ]
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