She met the heir to the throne, Prince Robert, fell in love and lived happily ever after…īut surely there’s more to the story than that! However, everything changed when Ella went to the King’s ball. (“ And,” as Ella’s godmother points out, “because they weren’t that clever.”) And in their cruelness, they nicknamed their stepsister “Cinderella” because of the cinders that sometimes smudged her skin. Her own two daughters, Malvolia and Narissa, were taught to treat Ella as a servant. ![]() She delegated household chores to Ella and confined her to the basement of the house. Vivian, Ella’s stepmother, was very strict. Her father remarried, but then he passed away too. “Thank you very much to everyone involved, particularly our UK audiences who have loved and supported the show,” says Lloyd Webber.įinal performance at the Gillian Lynne theatre.A girl named Ella lost her mother when she was very young. ![]() Press night cancelled at short notice owing to a Covid case in the cast Lloyd Webber criticises “impossible conditions created by the blunt instrument that is the government’s isolation guidance”.Ĭinderella finally opens to critics, receiving five stars in the Guardian.Ĭinderella performances halted because of Omicron and will restart “as soon as this wave is licked”, says Lloyd Webber.Ĭlosure announced. Lloyd Webber says he is determined to open Cinderella at full capacity and ready to risk arrest in doing so.Ĭomposer slams “government delay and confusion” and says Cinderella will not be part of a pilot scheme for reopening theatres, as suggested by the prime minister.įirst preview takes place at the Gillian Lynne theatre. “The show will absolutely go on, just a little later than I’d hoped,” says Lloyd Webber.įar Too Late song released for musical, which is now due to open in July. News announced that Andrew Lloyd Webber is creating a new version of Cinderella with writer Emerald Fennell and lyricist David Zippel.Ĭarrie Hope Fletcher announced in lead role for musical, set to open in August 2020.Īs Covid causes disruption, announcement made that the first preview will now be delayed to 9 October owing to “ current global circumstances”. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian A fairytale’s ending: Cinderella’s troubled timeline ![]() ![]() Ivano Turco, centre, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella. The Gillian Lynne theatre will next present a production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which has been on a UK tour. In a post on Instagram, Cinderella’s star Carrie Hope Fletcher said that over her three years on the project, from the first workshop to the final show, there had been “many highs and lows but overall I’m glad to have stood in Cinderella’s glass slippers … It’s been a ball.”Ī new production of Cinderella is to open on Broadway in 2023. On Monday afternoon the composer released a statement saying “I am very sorry if my words have been misunderstood” and adding that he thanked everyone involved in his “beloved” production for all they had done. Towards the end, Lloyd Webber’s letter read: “It might have been a costly mistake, but I am proud that we did and proud of everyone who supported me.” After significant criticism at the suggestion the show was a “costly mistake”, a spokesperson from the composer’s Really Useful Group said that the phrase was “never intended to relate to the production itself, more the myriad of challenges which the production has faced because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which the full text of the letter makes clear”. *Audience audibly BOOs* □ #MusicalTheatre #AndrewLloydWebber Credit: Hamza Jahanzeb /Xd7TiFxBnK- Hamza Jahanzeb June 13, 2022 VIDEO: At the final curtain call of (12/06), Director Laurence Connor, read out a letter from Lord ALW.
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