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While Carrie Hope Fletcher played Cinderella in the play's London performances, Bad Cinderella will feature Linedy Genao as the lead character.

The new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical falls flat even after becoming a meme. The play gets its new title from one of its featured songs. Even TikTok Couldn’t Save Broadway’s ‘Bad Cinderella’. Evan Zimmerman The situation has gone from Bad to worse. Bad Cinderella debuted in London as Cinderella less than a year ago and ended with heavy losses due to COVID19 spurts. Highlights From Andrew Lloyd WebberS Cinderella (OST) (Vinyl) Original London Cast. In his review, he called the musical “a muddled and momentum-less retooling of the familiar fairy tale in search of a coherent point of view as if it were a glass-slippered foot. Updated Linedy Genao plays the title character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Bad Cinderella' on Broadway. Webber wrote the music and David Zippel penned the lyrics.Ĭritics were not kind to “Bad Cinderella,” with Variety‘s Naveen Kumar saying the show lived up to its name… literally. Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Promising Young Woman,” wrote the original story and book, which was adapted by Alexis Scheer. After a successful run in Londons West End, Andrew. 18, a day after previews begin for Bad Cinderella. Put your dancing shoes on and get ready to have a ball Bad Cinderella is going to be on Broadway soon. A fixture on Broadway since 1988, it will close Feb. The show, about an outcast who eventually realizes appearances aren’t everything and develops a new take on the concept of “happily ever after,” closed the following June before transferring to Broadway this March. Lloyd Webber is closing his The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway in 2023. Playbill records that people are paying up to 297. And apparently I was not the only one to see Bad Cinderella on Broadway. His storied four-decade run started with “Evita” in 1979 and continued with “Cats” “Starlight Express,” “Sunset Boulevard” and, most recently, “School of Rock.” He’s composed 13 productions over the last four decades, including 1970’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” and 1968’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”Ī feminist retelling, of sorts, of the classic fairy tale, “Bad Cinderella” opened on London’s West End in the summer of 2021 after several pandemic-related stops and starts. Bad Cinderella being, well, bad is part of the lure of the production. Based on Lloyd Webber’s 2021 West End musical Cinderella at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, the New York transfer has acquired a new name, and a brand new production.

With the shuttering of “Bad Cinderella” and “Phantom of the Opera,” which was the longest-running production in history before the famous chandelier fell one last time in April, Webber has broken his 43-year streak of shows on Broadway. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Bad Cinderella has opened on Broadway.