12/18/2023 0 Comments Andrew lloyd webber cinderella![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t see Cinderella in London, so I can’t compare anything to it, but word was that the American version is a step up. We’ve got a new cast, as Linedy Genao replaced London’s Carrie Hope Fletcher as B.C., and a revised and supposedly improved book, with Alexis Scheer now credited with “book adaptation.” Laurence Connor, of the misbegotten spectacle that was the Miss Saigon revival as well as Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock, is still directing, and the lyrics are still by David Zippel (of Disney’s Hercules and Lloyd Webber’s fog-forward The Woman in White). Thus, reborn out of the ashes of bad PR, Bad Cinderella has landed in America. He closed the show in June 2022, having the cast read a statement that referred to the whole boondoggle as a “costly mistake.” (He apologized later.) In its announcement in 2018, Lloyd Webber promised that, in his collaboration with book writers Emerald Fennell (then just a promising young woman, before the release of Promising Young Woman) and Tom MacRae (who seems to have left the project since), Cinderella would become a “modern, feisty girl.” (Foreboding phrase, frankly.) A few years later, after the world had been rocked by both the pandemic and the Cats film, Cinderella opened in the West End in late 2021, with Fennell’s book and Lloyd Webber battling the headwinds of Britain’s COVID protocols along the way. Bad Cinderella first appeared a few years ago in London as simply Cinderella. To that, I don’t have an answer, but I can at least tell you how. Don’t ask me to try to hum any of its tunes, aside from the endlessly repeated title song. In fact, its occasional baseline competence makes it all the more insubstantial. It’s not a fiasco, or even a fiasca, because that would be more fun. The rest of the thing melted over me like a sludge of sherbet: sticky-sweet, acid-toned, zero nutritional value, prone to give you a mild headache. I took a second to jot it down in big letters and draw a star next to it in my notes, because at least someone had said something memorable. ![]() It’s also one of only a few lines that I can recall from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest not-so-mega musical, less than 24 hours after I saw it. Get ready for Cinderella… like you’ve never seen her before.Midway through Act One of Bad Cinderella, one of the stepsisters looks at Cinderella’s outfit and shouts, “It’s giving rags! It’s giving peasant!” I regret to inform you that this - meant to invoke already out-of-date internet lingo, itself cribbed from Black queer slang, that is so tired that by the time it reaches a Broadway stage you can’t help laughing at the stupidity - is the funniest line in Bad Cinderella. ![]() “It’s about beauty, but it’s about beauty being what you are rather than what you try and make yourself.’”įeaturing a brand new score by the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Oscar-nominated David Zippel, with a script from Killing Eve’s Emerald Fennell, this new production of an ancient tale promises to tell the rags-to-riches story the world loves in a totally new way. But underneath it all, the loneliness that comes with being the town pariah is wearing on her. The only person steadfastly refusing to live in the fairy tale is Cinderella, loud-mouthed, dripping with disdain, and more likely to roast Hansel and Gretel for dinner than play the demure and downtrodden maid, Cinderella is desperate to escape. Maintaining this façade is a full time job, and one that is taken very seriously indeed. Belleville is fairy tale come to life: a place where you can’t move without falling over a wishing well or a quivering milkmaid. Welcome to Belleville! The most aggressively picturesque town in the history of the world, populated exclusively with gorgeous townsfolk who stop at nothing to achieve perfection. Running in London only until 12 June 2022.Īndrew Lloyd Webber has described this new iteration of Cinderella, now playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, as a ‘misfit’. On Tuesday and Wednesday evening performances, the role of Cinderella will be played by Georgina Onuorah.Īndrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is the exciting new musical comedy starring Carrie Hope Fletcher (Heathers The Musical, Les Misérables) which completely reinvents the world’s best-loved fairytale. Please note that Carrie Hope Fletcher will not be performing on the following dates: 23-25 March and 20-25 April, and 20-22 May. ![]()
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