The musical, set to debut early subsequent 12 months, is arriving as Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera ends its 35-year run.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing his musical model of Cinderella to Broadway this spring.
The newly retitled DangerousCinderella, which performed the West Finish from 2021 to 2022, will take over the Imperial Theatre. The musical explores the basic fairytale via the lens of magnificence requirements, with a e book written by Emerald Fennell, the Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of Promising Younger Lady.
Linedy Genao, who has beforehand appeared on Broadway in Expensive Evan Hansen, will play the title function.
Initially titled Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, the musical was one in every of many productions on the West Finish to have its schedule impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The musical’s August 2020 begin was pushed to the summer time of 2021, at which period the theater may solely function at 50 p.c capability. The opening was then postponed a second time after a forged member examined constructive for COVID-19, which means performances needed to be canceled on account of West Finish protocols on the time. The musical then opened on the West Finish on August 18, 2021, needed to shut for a few month throughout the winter Omicron surge and ended its run in June 2022.
On the time of closing, Lloyd Webber got here beneath controversy for feedback he wrote in regards to the present’s finish, calling the manufacturing a “pricey mistake,” in keeping with Selection, and later clarifying that he meant on account of having opened the manufacturing “too early” amid authorities laws on theaters, which led to the efficiency cancellations.
The musical begins previews Feb. 17, 2023 and opens March 23.
It involves Broadway as Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera ends its 35-year run.