Tear Jerker / Six: The Musical

• The final verse of "No Way", in which Catherine of Aragon sincerely tells Henry that if he truly has a good reason for divorcing her if she's really caused him any pain, she'll accept the annulment and leave with no further hassle. She just wants him to explain a single thing she's done wrong. But, of course, Henry doesn't have a good reason, which just pisses Catherine off even further.
• Anne Boleyn's refrain of "What was I meant to do?" starts out cheeky and then grows desperate and terrified, especially combined with the part in the live shows where Anne stops singing for a couple of seconds to panic over her impending execution.
• "Heart of Stone", in which Jane Seymour, "the only one he truly loved", makes it clear she is well aware that Henry's love for her would evaporate if she never gave birth to a son or if anything happened to Edward. And tragically, it did, though Jane and Henry were both long dead by the time Edward passed away at the age of fifteen.
  • She also laments how she was unable to be with Edward in life due to dying shortly after childbirth, although she follows this by saying she would always be with him in spirit.
• "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation, or even sobbing, as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken… Or it's her last breath. Aimie Atkinson (original West End Howard) ends the song with a loud gasp of shock and pain, then freezing with her head tilted back, simultaneously bringing to mind sexual activity and Katherine's death by beheading. Samantha Pauly (original Broadway Howard) simply dissolves into broken sobbing, contrasting sharply with the audience's applause for the showstopper. This is made worse by the real Katherine's steadfast insistence, up until her death, that Thomas Culpeper had raped her — she got executed for something that was not her fault. "Don't care if you don't please me", takes on a darker bent.
  • This animatic of the song shows Katherine blissfully enjoying her time with Thomas Culpepper — while Singer!Katherine leans against a tree and watches them with the most cynical, depressed expression on her face. She knows exactly what's about to happen to her younger self and there's nothing she can do to stop it.
  • You can effectively hear the moment Katherine BREAKS, when, yet again, the man she trusts "says they have a connection..." The lyrics of "it's never ever different" crescendo into what almost ends up being a choked scream, even as it's followed up by the repeat of the chorus — which, to hammer it home that little bit more, now has changed lyrics of her fully aware that it's never enough for these men.
• "I Don't Need Your Love" is about Catherine Parr admitting that she only married Henry because, especially after looking at his track record, she knew that if she told him what was really on her mind she'd wind up dead. She writes a letter to Tom Seymour, the man she truly loved, telling him that while she loves him and only wants to live her life with him she has to give him and their love up.
• All of "Six", if you think about it. The women describe what their lives would've been like if they'd never married Henry (except Jane, who still imagines marrying him but without being completely defined by him and raising a big family that she gets to see grow up), and all of them would've been so much happier. (Well, except for maybe Anne of Cleves, who got a pretty sweet deal in the end in reality as well.) In particular, Katherine Howard imagines a world where she told Henry Mannox to piss off, and decided she didn't need him and became a famous musician and singer all on her own. It's hard not to tear up a little at the realization of how abused this girl was. And throughout the song, the women sing that this concert, in which they've retaken the narrative and spoken for themselves for once, is only going to last "five more minutes." After those five minutes are up, the show is over… and we're back in the real world, where most of these women we've gotten to know and care about met tragic ends, and most people simply remember them for how their marriages ended. Ouch.

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