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“Bad Cinderella”
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The Title Says It All BY ROBERT MASSIMI
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ot since “Starlight Express” has Andrew Lloyd Webber written such a lackluster musical. The songs you hear throughout the musical “Bad Cinderella” at The Imperial Theatre go in one ear and out the other and are long forgotten even before the final curtain drops. Emerald Fennell’s book is nothing to really get excited about either. The premise here is that we visit a town called Belleville where only the beautiful people live; Cinderella is considered bad because she is seen as ugly, and because she spray painted on Prince Charming’s statue “beauty sucks.” Wow. Deep! Hotel Hayden ©Hotel Hayden
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The whole show is a confusing piece of garble, flavored with outrageously garish costumes (Gabriela Tylesova). Tylesova does a great job, however, with the scenic design. Director Laurence Connor reaches for the campy, the cheap laughs and clearly panfeaturing paintings, photography, sculptures ders to the diverse audience members. Based on gay and mixed media installations bywe artists in the themes as well as a clear message that only look advertising industry. The show artworks toward the outside rather than the included inherent good in “Bad Cinderella”artists has too on weak of 22 a plot to be of bypeople, 135 contemporary the screens taken as goodmvvoart.com theater and any message it tries to serve the Oculus. is lost in the confusion.
GABRIELA GIL Genao) is for the most part good; Cinderella (Linedy Artist Gilvoice, connects of the she has aGabriela nice singing delivers elements the “business” nicely and can dance.through In the lead immediate present therole, usehowever, of line,she color is not a big enough to deliver like of toand rhythm. Thistalent combination in many her painting day’s stars on Broadway can. The same holds true for reflects an admiration for both nature’s softness Prince Sebastian (Jordon Dobson). Dobson cannot and the the human to connect. deliver way ainstinct star should, he is too one-dimenBornandinat Tegucigalpa, Gil ashas sional times, flat. While Honduras, Carolee Carmello the Stepmother and Grace as theAmerica Queen areher moved throughout SouthMcLean and North very good, restconstant of the castmigration for the mosthas part shaped goes entire life. the The through the motions where the acting is concerned. her multicultural perspective and nurtured her interest in artlighting as a way to transcribe her personal Bruno Poet’s is nicely done to complement experience using a unique visual the story, particularly the musical partlanguage. of the show.Her JoAnn isM.based Hunter’s choreography ranges studio in New York. She willbetween hold her decent andart ridiculous. one point in the the on first solo exhibitAtshowcasing hershow, work audience has to watch a Chippendale version of December 3. gabrielagil.com dancers doing push-ups and lifting weights shirtless
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DOMENICO VACCA “Bad Cinderella” the basic fashion story of the sisLuxury men’s holds and towomen’s designer ters, the mean stepmother and the ball dropping Domenico Vacca has reopened his flagship at store midnight. Only here the sisters are beyond annoying, onAdele Madison Avenue. Born in Italy, Vacca‘s family (Sami Gayle) has such a nasal voice that she has beentodeeply-rooted in the craft of fashion is hard hear, and her sister Marie (Morgan Hig- for decades. 2002, Vacca hisand ownuses label gins) has In a hairstyle similar launched to Lady Gaga all the cutesyhis phrases that don’t to anything and opened flagship storeadd on up Fifth Avenue in meaningful, funny. If all ofthe thissartorial is not distracting New York, nor spearheading trend in enough, the constant turnstile staging left most of the fashion. domenicovacca.com audience with vertigo by the show’s end.