Prince Charming, the town believes, died in a war, so now it’s up to his less-buff brother Sebastian (Turco) to marry and become king - because nothing draws crowds like a royal wedding. A wedding is afoot in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cinderella,” currently playing London’s West End. One girl hurting the local economy by being a teenager is a rather low-stakes plot if you ask me, but the musical quickly forgets about it anyway.
The wrench in their plan? Cinders, a rebellious, angry, black-dress-wearing orphan who spews verbal venom and defaces property with spray paint. Her intro tune, “Bad Cinderella,” goes “Girl from the gutter, unpleasant peasant.” Because of her goth-y antics, the hamlet loses the coveted “Most Attractive Town” prize. “Every one a chiseled god, with a ripped and rockin’ bod!” the ensemble sings as director Laurence Connor’s turntable twirls these sexy people around so much you would think he was auditioning to be a DJ.īelleville depends, not on farming or textiles to stay afloat, but tourism.
“Cinderella” is set in Belleville, a storybook French town that prizes itself on the oo-la-la hotness of its residents. That joylessness needs to be remedied if it wants - as Lloyd Webber recently told The Post it does - to come to Bibbidi-bobbidi-Broadway.įennell’s revamped plot starts off campy. “Cinderella,” at times, brings a tear to your eye, but almost never puts a smile on your face. Problem is this revisionist “Cinderella” isn’t dark and brooding like “The Phantom of the Opera.” With a book by Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman” scribe Emerald Fennell, it fancies itself a musical comedy, like “Guys and Dolls” or “Hairspray.” But at the matinee I attended, the silent crowd might as well have been watching Ibsen.īroadway folks bragged about forging COVID tests to go to Tonys parties Ivano Turco, center, plays Prince Sebastian in “Cinderella.” ©Tristram Kenton It’s sweet and soaring - Lloyd Webber doesn’t often put those two qualities into one showstopper - and ends on a masterful button by lyricist David Zippel: “Only you can rescue lonely me!” Sublime. What parts don’t need a magic spell’s help right now? The greatest assets of “Cinderella,” unsurprisingly, are its cast and Lloyd Webber’s heart-racing ballads sung on a bare stage.Ĭinderella, Georgina Onuorah (she is the alternate, the role is normally played by Carrie Hope Fletcher), makes a striking West End debut with modern pop flair in a song called “I Know I Have a Heart.” She sits, shattered after the ball, on the center of the stage in a big white gown and powerfully wails her pain right to us.Īs her Prince Sebastian, a nontraditionally geeky heir, talented newcomer Ivano Turco innocently croons “Only You, Lonely You” about his nascent love for his childhood pal Cinderella. But, like the title character, the new show could use a Fairy Godmother’s wand.īibbidi-bobbidi-scrap the set and costumes!
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