Helena audiences will get a chance to see a local production of SIX: Teen Edition, the stage musical that reimagines Henry VIII's six wives as pop stars competing to tell their stories. Performances are scheduled at a local venue as part of the current community theater season.

The show — a global hit that originated in the United Kingdom and has since run on Broadway and in touring productions worldwide — follows the six queens in a concert-style format. The Teen Edition adapts the original script and staging for younger performers while retaining the full song catalog, which ranges from pop anthems to R&B ballads. The premise is simple and loud: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived, each queen getting a number to make her case.

For Helena, a production of this scale represents a meaningful step for local youth theater, which has grown its ambitions in recent seasons. The show's popularity with younger audiences — it has become a staple of middle and high school theater programs nationally — means many Helena families will already know the songs before the curtain rises.