The show will premiere at the Imperial Theatre in February with Linedy Genao in the titular role. Webber announced the news on Monday, revealing that a reworked version of Cinderella, which debuted on London's West End in 2021.
The composer is taking his show Bad Cinderella to the New York stage as the longest running show in Broadway history closes.
A spokesman said the show has also been redesigned.Andrew Lloyd Webber may be bidding farewell to The Phantom of the Operaon Broadway but his presence on the Great White Way is far from over. Lloyd Webber said in a news release that the creative team has been developing “a few new songs” for the Broadway production. When it finally opened last year, Matt Wolf, a critic for The New York Times, declared it “worth the wait” and said it “looks set for a sturdy West End run.” But that turned out not to be the case: It closed in June, after a run of less than a year. The run in London was repeatedly delayed by the pandemic. The musical, produced by Christine Schwarzman’s company, No Guarantees, alongside Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, will run at the Imperial Theater, with a scheduled opening night of March 23. Hunter they previously collaborated on Lloyd Webber’s “School of Rock.” The director is Laurence Connor and the choreographer is JoAnn M. “Bad Cinderella” features music by Lloyd Webber (his many credits include “Evita,” “Cats” and “Phantom”), lyrics by David Zippel (“City of Angels”), and a book by Emerald Fennell (she won an Academy Award for the screenplay of “Promising Young Woman”). Genao, who described herself in a news release as “a proud Dominican American,” was in the ensemble of the Broadway production of “On Your Feet!” and an understudy in the Broadway production of “Dear Evan Hansen,” and this fall she is to star in a production of “On Your Feet!” at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J. The New York production is to star Linedy Genao, in her first leading role on Broadway. “It adds up to not so much a ball as a blast,” Chris Wiegand wrote in a five-star review for The Guardian, adding that it was “silly but warm and inclusive, with relatable, down-to-earth heroes and pertinent points about our quest for perfection and our expectations of each other and ourselves.” “Bad Cinderella,” which had a previous run with a sparer title, “Cinderella,” in London, is a contemporary adaptation of the classic fairy tale, now with a consideration of beauty standards and body-shaming, plus bawdy language and same-sex relationships. 17, one night before the scheduled closing of the long-running “Phantom.” Lloyd Webber announced Monday that his next musical, “Bad Cinderella,” will begin performances on Feb. The famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s unbroken streak on Broadway - at least one of his musicals has been onstage since 1979 - will not end with the closing of “The Phantom of the Opera” next year.
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