In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical
As with the car crash that took her life, the most appropriate response to “Diana” the musical is to look away.
Devoid of insight and ricocheting between dull vulgarity and vacuous hero worship, the show, which had its official opening Wednesday at the Longacre Theatre, is less edifying than a scroll through the archives of the tabloids. The musical purports to ridicule them for hounding their prey, but in actuality matches them for exploitation.
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