It’s as if composer, lyricist, writer and director each tried to create their own show independently, and ended up making this Cinderella more of a poisoned apple than a glass slipper. Andrew Lloyd Webber responds with a statement after he did not attend the final curtain calll of his musical ‘Cinderella’ in London, but did send a letter to be read at the show, in which he. Whilst there will be much deserved admiration for getting the production mounted in the most difficult of times, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella replaces magic, miracles and enchantment with misogyny, machismo and eroticism, and overall, it feels uncomfortable to watch. The composer’s musical reinvention of Cinderella first announced by The Hollywood Reporter in 2018 is due to open at the Gillian Lynne. It’s hard to believe this is a West End debut, Turco carries the role so confidently, and his solo number, ‘Only You, Lonely You’ is nothing short of captivating. Ivano Turco as Prince Sebastian wows the audience with a gentle and nuanced performance. ‘Cinderella’ Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Fairy Tale Redux Opens at Last Gillian Lynne Theatre, London 1,297 seats. Rebecca Trehearn and Victoria Hamilton Barritt both relish their villainous roles as The Queen and The Stepmother respectively, while Laura Baldwin shines as stepsister Adele.
Carrie Hope Fletcher delivers a powerful performance as the titular character, filled with angst and a touch of vulnerability, and her solo numbers are spectacular. Thankfully, Bruno Poet’s lighting design picks up a great deal of the slack giving The Gillian Lynne Theatre the fairytale feel that is desperately lacking elsewhere.Ĭinderella does have a strong cast. Gabriella Tylesova’s costumes, particularly for the female leads, are extravagant and dazzling, and stand out even more so against a dull and uninspiring set. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical was meant to open a year ago, but one pandemic-related delay after another has pushed Cinderella back time and again, with the composer even threatening to go. But, too soon, the clock strikes midnight, the enchantment is over, and the production turns back in to a pumpkin. It’s also here that we get another of the standout musical numbers, as Carrie Hope Fletcher delivers the stunning ‘I Know I Have a Heart’. Laurence Connor’s direction and the stage’s revolve both play a part in making these scenes the best of the night. It’s not just Cinderella who is transformed, as the stage takes on a whole new look thanks to some rather impressive stage wizardry. The Ball comes at the top of the second act, and it looks like things might start to get interesting.
Instead, according to the musical’s description, she finds herself and her prince in new circumstances, which causes them to rethink what “happily ever after” really means.Too often the lyrics don’t reflect the plot, which is already at odds with the music and the staging one of those often reprised, albeit enjoyable, numbers is ‘Bad Cinderella’ which gives us the line “I’ve a style all my own, and I will not change it for you”, which makes us wonder why Cinderella then goes ahead to do just that.Įnter the Godmother (Gloria Onitiri), turning up briefly to suggest Cinderella should undergo surgery to be more beautiful there’s a song about it before they decide there’s not enough time, so stick her in a pretty dress instead. The musical, produced by Christine Schwarzman’s company, No Guarantees, alongside Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, will run at the Imperial Theater, with a scheduled opening night of March.
The story is set in the kingdom of Belleville and is a modern retelling of the classic fairytale, except in this version, Cinderella is no longer a damsel of distress who needs saving. Cinderella was an established musical with good reviews, and so I did feel mistakenly a sense of security that comes with that and, in Lloyd Webber, the backing of such a big name in the.
The musical joins a long list of Broadway productions that have closed in the last year, including KPOP, A Strange Loop, Dear Evan Hansen, Ain’t No Mo’, Room and Come From Away, among others.ĭavid Zippel wrote the lyrics for Bad Cinderella, which was directed by Laurence Connor and based on a book by Oscar winner Emerald Fennell. Not just because the songs in Bad Cinderella, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that opened on Thursday at the Imperial Theater, are so crushingly loud. He had been long represented by The Phantom of the Opera, which played its final performance on April 16, as well as other musicals such as Cats, Evita and School of Rock. Tony Awards: Wendell Pierce, Jessica Chastain Among Snubs as Lone Winners for 'Shucked,' 'Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' SurpriseĪs it stands, after Bad Cinderella plays its final performance, Lloyd Webber will not have a musical on Broadway for the first time in decades.
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