10/29/2023 0 Comments Linedy genao bad cinderella![]() The set and costume design (by Gabriela Tylesova) is an extension of each character in this colorful and charming musical - intricately woven props adding drama and tension to each scene.īad Cinderella is worth the ride into the world of reenvisioned fairytales. McLean and Carmello are intoxicatingly devilish in these roles - and they know it! The wickedly sassy number: “I Know You,” sung by the Stepmother, Carolee Carmello ( Lestat, Finding Neverland), and the Queen, Grace McLean ( Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812), is a scene stealer. Isn’t it?Īndrew Lloyd Webber’s musical numbers: “Only You, Lonely You” and “Far Too Late,” sung by Dobson and Genao, will trigger your emotions. It’s reflective of the modern age we live in. Lastly, when the seemingly ominous fairy godmother, played by Christina Acosta Robinson ( Summer: The Donna Summer Musical), states she doesn’t perform plastic surgery. Or the chorus, known as the Hunks, played by shirtless, buff male dancers gloriously basking in objectification. Phrases such as “Badass” and “You’re giving peasant” are part of the musical’s lexicon. I won’t spoil what happens next.īut here are some highlights worth mentioning:īad Cinderella, written by Academy-Award-winning screenwriter Emerald Fennell ( Promising Young Woman, Killing Eve), does take liberties with the dialogue. But their infatuation for one another is threatened when Prince Sebastian’s mother, the Queen, decides to marry him off to a maiden in Belleville. Someone who talks back to her stepmother and vandalizes Prince Charming’s statute with the words: Beauty Sucks! Though deep down she longs to be accepted and find people who love her as she is, Cinderella finds solace in her friendship with Prince Sebastian since they were kids. The story follows Cinderella, a scruffy, leather-wearing outcast who doesn’t adhere to Belleville’s (the fictitious kingdom in the musical) societal rules of beauty and fitting in. In the musical, Dobson is Prince Charming’s uncharismatic socially-awkward brother, while Prince Charming is revered, perfectly chiseled, and slain at war - or was he? Instead, boy-and- girl save one another.Īndrew Lloyd Webber took a chance on casting the first Latina to play the lead as Cinderella, Linedy Genao ( Dear Evan Hansen, In the Heights), and her love interest, Prince Sebastian is African-American, played by Jordan Dobson ( Hadestown, A Beautiful Noise). Traditional in the sense that it wasn’t an all-white cast or didn’t follow the boy-meets-girl or boy-saves-girl formula often beaten to a pulp in storytelling. Famed composer Andrew Lloyd brought the musical from London’s West End stateside to delight and enchant new audiences with surprisingly entertaining twists to the story.Īnd If you follow or even write about Broadway as I do, you may have read that ‘Bad Cinderella’ took a lashing from the press for deviating from the original story. Prepare to Alter Your Preconceived Notions of the Classically Dutiful Prince Charming and Cinderella.Ī new rendition of the timeless fairytale recently debuted on the Broadway stage.
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