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    Review: ‘Bad Cinderella’ on Broadway pointlessly blows up a fairy tale

    NEW YORK — “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 fairy tale that (a) has no demonstrable respect whatsoever for the dramaturgical structure of the source, and (b) comes ...
    by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Mar 27, 2023 3 minutes
    Grace McLean, left, as Queen in "Bad Cinderella."

    NEW YORK — “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 fairy tale 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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