![]() She brought her young son to watch a bit the other day. Fennell emphasises that they never wished to be arch or to undermine fairytales – they wanted to understand why we return to such narratives. Lloyd Webber says Fennell’s script provides “the set pieces that any composer would always like … so I got the opportunity to write a grand waltz” and covers a range of emotional territory, spinning in “a different way to what you’d expect”. “How does that change the dynamic of the relationship? How does it change the way you feel about yourself?” Imagine, suggests Fennell, that your best friend suddenly becomes the most famous pop star in the world. The musical, with witty lyrics by David Zippel (City of Angels), is a cautionary tale about overnight celebrity, not just royalty. Carey Mulligan, left, Emerald Fennell and Laverne Cox on the set of Promising Young Woman. While she loves the notion of love at first sight, Fennell admits: “I’m not sure how realistic it is to marry someone the day after you meet them at a party!”Ĭolliding romcom scenarios. But, Diana tells Camilla, she has barely spent any time with her fiance – much like your typical Cinders. In the season four episode Fairytale, Diana’s flatmates toast “no more worries” as her engagement to Charles promises a life of palaces, jewels and happy-ever-afters. There is a connection, too, to Netflix’s regal sensation The Crown, in which Fennell plays Camilla Parker Bowles. The poster for Cinderella, with its spray-painted upside-down-heart dress, suggests something in a similar vein (though for family audiences). Wrapping thorny issues in bubblegum colours and colliding romcom scenarios with darker truths is what Fennell did so brilliantly in Promising Young Woman, whose score featured musical-theatre showstopper Something Wonderful from The King and I. It’s a romantic comedy, she says, built around a realistic relationship. It’s a little bit problematic!” Her story, set in the “absolutely despotic” city of Belleville, explores the friendship between rebellious Cinderella (Carrie Hope Fletcher) and her friend Sebastian (Ivano Turco), who suddenly inherits a title and becomes heir to the throne. “You can’t have Cinderella without the shoe,” she says, “but it’s a man going around essentially deciding his bride on a woman’s shoe size. She decided to confront the modern pressures put on young women, while keeping “the deliciousness, fun and romance” of the fairytale and its traditional trimmings. It’s a little bit problematic! Emerald Fennell It’s a man going around essentially deciding his bride on a woman’s shoe size. The problem she had with Cinderella, Fennell says, is that “the girl has to change herself in order to be lovable”. Fennell’s eyes widen: “But that sounds … sensational!” One featured a Cinderella working in a wardrobe department in Hollywood who left her footprints in wet cement at Grauman’s Chinese theatre. He grimaces at the synopses he had previously been offered. A few years back, when she was working on Killing Eve (she was the second season showrunner), he came for lunch and explained that he was looking for a new angle on the fairytale. “This is my first rodeo.”įennell has known him for ever: Lloyd Webber is a friend of her parents. “Andrew’s done this a billion times,” she says. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianĪ new musical by Lloyd Webber is an event in itself but Cinderella comes with an original story and book by Promising Young Woman’s Oscar-winning Emerald Fennell, “horrendously pregnant” and beaming as the due date arrives for her second baby and her first musical. ![]() ![]() Laura Baldwin (Adele), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Cinderella) and Georgina Castle (Marie) in Cinderella. (He later issued a statement saying his words had been misunderstood and that he was proud of the show.Ballers. Lloyd Webber was criticised for the manner in which some current and future Cinderella cast members learned of its closure in 2022 via social media and for his suggestion, in a letter read out at its final night, that opening a new musical during the pandemic “ might have been a costly mistake”. The musical is a retooled version of Cinderella, which ran for just under a year (including a Covid-related break in performances) and suffered heavy losses at London’s Gillian Lynne theatre. It will have played 33 previews and 85 performances. Ticket sales have dipped despite a low average price for a big Broadway musical ($54 for last week). ![]() The show, which did not receive any nominations at this year’s Tony awards, has announced that “ the ball must come to an end” and that it will bow out at New York’s Imperial theatre on 4 June. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella is to close on Broadway just over 10 weeks after its official opening night. ![]()
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