BROADWAY REVIEW: Terrible ‘Bad Cinderella’ lives up to its title
“Bad Cinderella” says it all.
Why, one wonders aplenty as one watches, did such a distinguished personage of the musical theater as the incomparable Andrew Lloyd Webber choose to spend some of his precious remaining time on Earth on a musical updating of a beloved fairytale that (a), has no demonstrable respect whatsoever for the dramaturgical structure of the source and (b), comes with a crass and mostly tasteless sense of humor that feels woefully out of sync with the moment?
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