The addition of “bad” to the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest maximalist spectacle, formerly known simply as “Cinderella” when it premiered for a short-lived run on the West End in 2021, would…
”), even manages to gleefully reinforce the chronic social fixations — on beauty, vanity and wealth — that it purports to deem toxic.
Indifference to appearances would seem to set our heroes apart; the vapid mob calls Cinderella “Bad Cinderella” because she supposedly doesn’t care about looks — she even vandalized a memorial to Prince Charming with the treasonous slogan “beauty sucks.” The younger prince Sebastian is also considered a puny eyesore in comparison to his strapping older brother, the memory of whom transforms even their mother, the Queen , into a drool-face emoji.
Let’s grant, for argument’s sake, that Cinderella’s “alarming” spiky updo and drab leather jacket constitute grounds for social exile . She and Prince Sebastian are childhood besties and already in love, so what stands in their way for two and a half hours? The answer has something to do with Cinderella’s Stepmother threatening to out the Queen as a fellow ex-courtesan and social climber, a “Real Housewives of Versailles” rivalry that delivers the wickedly satisfying diva duet “I Know You.
And Cinderella’s mistake isn’t longing to be hot , but — not forgiving Sebastian for calling her basic when she finally fits in?
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