Welcome back six.
The musical tells the story of
Henry the eighth and his six wives,
but this time it is the wives
taking the microphone as pop icons
to tell their side of history.
This new original musical
is a global sensation.
It has won 23 awards over the
past 2 Broadway seasons and now
the All Woman cast and the All
Woman Band have made their way
to DC to the National Theater.
I talked to Jasmine Forsberg,
who plays Jane Seymour Henry's.
Third wife.
Jasmine,
welcome to DC we theater lovers
have been waiting for you.
What's it like to be part
of the six? The musical
touring cast? Thank you
so much for the warm welcome, Ellen.
It has been so magical
being a part of this cast.
I just graduated from Penn
State Musical Theatre last year,
so this is my big gift.
First big big gig right out of school
and being a part of such a team of
empowered women telling this story,
especially in DC.
Right now it is so.
So special to tell the story every
single night and be on stage with
six fierce women of color and
just having I'm having a blast.
It is so wonderful.
Listen now, let me tell you.
Will all of you have such
different storylines?
I will say listening to the
album for the first time.
It was heart of stone that got me to say
Oh my gosh like this is this is good
and that was like 4 songs in right.
But that is your song.
What is it like to sing that on stage?
It's singing?
It's one of those numbers on stage
I stand center stage downstage in a
spotlight and I just park and bark.
It's kind of what you refer to it as and
I haven't had too many opportunities.
In my life to sing the power
Ballad number of the show.
You can.
To be able to sing this for thousands
of people every single night is an
opportunity that had never take for granted.
And it's nice because I I get to
incorporate so much of my own self into
this role and my own love for family.
Jane Seymour. Her biggest storyline is
that she was the one who had Henry's son,
which is what he really wanted,
and for me, James love for family
and my own love for my own.
Family are just so potent and getting to
channel that every night is so much fun.
It's and when I saw you were playing
Jane Seymour, I immediately go to
the only one he truly loved and then
the rest of your cast going rude.
What can I say? I don't know. I mean,
who knows? Who knows? Headed. Die
to hear that you just
graduated from Penn State.
That's truly incredible. To be here.
I feel like when people come in
to see this show,
we've heard the music for so long.
I feel like through the pandemic,
things got delayed for some
of us to even see the show.
So the expectation when we
walk in the theater has got
to be higher than even normal.
Do you feel that pressure?
Or what?
Is it like to deliver and
know you've nailed it?
I don't. It's not pressure that we feel there
is such an energy every single night
when people are in the audience use you.
There's this little harpsichord
tune that plays as we are stepping
through this curtain on stage and
taking our place as these Queens
and the cheers that just happened.
There's such an excitement and a bubbling
anticipation more so than a pressure,
but it is still every night getting
that energy back is is it never
gets old and it's so much fun.
I can't imagine I really like this.
Your job would have been my dream dream job,
so I'm like trying to live
through you right now.
You mentioned been in DC actually for
a week already and you're here through
the start of September. At least.
Any plans for sightseeing around DC?
Do you even have time to sightsee in DC?
Our days get pretty busy,
but now that we're fully in the tour mode,
I fully intend on taking advantage of
all the museums that DC has to offer.
I've also heard that going on a night time
mall walk is a wonderful way of
seeing the monuments and everything,
and I really, really want
to do the Fords theater
experience so bad. Those are like,
definitely top of my list activities.
Many years.
We are 6.
Ohh it is one of the most talked
about musical 6 the musical runs at
National Theater through September 4th.