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!
There is a satisfying musical buried somewhere in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella,” currently playing London’s West End. 'Lehman Trilogy' planning to return to Broadway this fall 'Bird Box Barcelona' review: A tiresome, depressing Netflix follow-up
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The musical features a book written by Emerald Fennell (known for writing season two of Killing Eve for Phoebe Waller-Bridge), and lyrics written by David Zippel (who is known for writing lyrics for Disney’s Hercules). – ALW - Andrew Lloyd Webber October 30, 2020īritish actress Victoria Hamilton-Barritt is set to play Cinderella’s stepmother, and the rest of the cast has yet to be announced. The first single from my new Cinderella is available now. The new musical comedy starring British actress Carrie Hope Fletcher will open on the West End in the Spring of 2021. Webber, known for composing shows including The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, and School of Rock, has released the song “Bad Cinderella” from his new musical adaptation of the famous fairy tale about a girl who lost her glass slipper.
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