"Bad Cinderella"- everyone is shitting all over this new Broadway show

it will lose its entire capitalization and close in june

It was one of the worst Broadway musicals I’ve seen. Well, the first half anyway. We left at intermission.

I was at a family event in the UK last year and someone there had been to see it and was scandalised that Prime Charming was GASP gay AND GASP black with GASP dreadlocks.

and there was swearing.

Yes, it didn’t last long on the West End. But now it’s here in NY.

it is not worse than "White Girl in Danger" a couple of blocks away.

[quote] everyone is shitting all over

Foul language and an ugly image.

I said worst “Broadway” musical R5. But yeah, I’ve heard that White Girl in Danger is awful, too.

R5 White Girl In Danger?! Oh god. Please do tell us about this

I'd expect a "The Producers" style scam was behind a flop of this magnitude, if Andrew Lloyd Weber weren't involved.

Nobody ever shit on a show I was in.

Somewhere Patti is laughing…

Poor Cinderelly.

atleast someone seems to like the play

Not since Carrie...

Shit always recognizes shit.

Yet it's still not as fraudulent a show as CATS. Nothing could ever be.

OP is myopic.

Just how bad is this fairy tale woman?

Moderately bad or execrably bad?

An artist of his caliber is permitted to have a misstep or two during the lifetime of a career filled with tremendous success

[quote] a misstep or two

No, a misstep of four.

Andrew Lloyd Weber declined to attend opening. Son has Stage 4 cancer.

It can’t be as bad as Love Never Dies.

Or Aspects Of Love.

ALW needs to sober up.

I've seen shit in the aisle, but not shit on stage.

Oh come on, Hillary, you debated shit onstage.

It does sound dreadful, but it doesn’t feel right putting the boot in ALW right now.

I have a feeling he couldn’t care less what happens with the show. His son is very ill and it has to be his priority.

He died.

R30 oh no

[quote] "Bad Cinderella"- everyone is shitting all over this new Broadway show

I hope just figuratively and not literally.

Um, R29?

Everyone is shitting on it

Do the ushers hand you a roll of toilet paper when they seat you, or do you have to ask for it at the coat check?

I feel bad for the actress who stars as Cinderella. I've never seen such critical attacks like what she's getting since last year with 'Funny Girl'.

Only Glenn Close can save this show too!

Saw it tonight. First half of the first act had me hoping it would be another "fun bad" like "Dance of the Vampires ", but outside the queen and stepmother (Carolee Carmello, walking off with the show), I found it a Styrofoam slipper, not a glass one. The younger prince is cute, but I found Cinderella to be unexciting outside her voice. Definitely a frau show as there were lots of women in groups there, going gaga like a visit to a gay bar. Ultimately depressing that musical theater has become this.

since they're all out of ideas, perhaps they should redo past flops

A reimagining of Cinderella, who’da thunk it??

ALW is a soulless, crazy drunk, but he has so much money, and he's made theater owners worldwide so much money, that everyone says yes to all his crazy whims. Each of his recent shows have been a nightmare for the creative/production teams because he blames everyone but the composer. The Love Never Dies shitshow is legendary.

This show doesn't appeal to me, really, based solely on the London cast recording. I don't think the score is awful, but it's not great by any stretch. ALW hasn't written a truly bulletproof show in quite a few years now, and seems to be out of ideas and good melodies. I used to live Broadway and a wide range of composers writing for musical theater, but the past 20 years have been a big disappointment. I cannot name more than a couple of shows I was interested in seeing or hearing. Most seem to be jukebox shows, or adaptations of kitschy Hollywood films like Legally Blonde and Mean Girls. I was terribly bored by Wicked and hated Hamilton. I mainly go to the opera now. For one, it can be much cheaper.

Throughout the show, I heard strains of "In My Own Little Corner ". Saw the Rodgers and Hammerstein production twice with a recast fairy godmother. Hated that character in the ALW version. The show had the most unappealing lyrics I've heard in years. I disagree that it was far too scaled down. I know nothing about the original production, but thought it looked pretty lavish. One of the few things outside of Carolee I did enjoy. Hoping at least she gets a Tony nod. Most fun diva character for me since Beth Leavel in "The Prom".

That’s the worst part, R38. It’s not “fun bad.” It’s a total slog.

[quote] Of course, “bad” is a misnomer for Cinderella, whose “sky high IQ” and “style all her own” are meant to signal her virtue. But she is also, as portrayed here by Genao, obviously and objectively beautiful. Which is worth noting only because the entire reconceived plot of “Bad Cinderella” insists that its heroine is an ugly duckling. Cinderella’s moment of weakness — when she admits that she wants to be hot just like everyone else, and visits the town Godmother and cosmetologist (Christina Acosta Robinson) for a ball-worthy makeover — amounts to a wig change.

That sounds like a bad execution. It seems like the show wanted to frame its message branding around sexualized (and shallow) society / entertainment vs. wholesome values / entertainment.

[quote] You could hardly expect the townspeople of Belleville, who introduce themselves in a gyrating opening number called “Buns ‘n’ Roses/ Beauty Is Our Duty,” not to be juiced up and ready to cavort. Clad in a psychedelic fever dream of sexed-up Ancien Regime silhouettes (by costume and set designer Gabriela Tylesova), they are shallow, dumb and single-mindedly obsessed with being hot.

Of course, if they had committed more to that, it would've been slammed for being patronizing and potentially slutshaming.