They've also stacked the deck with people who are very beloved by fandoms of various sizes: Cabello, Billy Porter (playing the fabulous godparent or "Fab G"), Idina Menzel, Minnie Driver, and I suppose James Corden. Why do we need one that starts with "Rhythm Nation"?Ĭamila Cabello and Billy Porter get sparkly in Cinderella. why does this exist? There are plenty of versions of Cinderella, and some have music. It is a little weird that the film opens with a montage of the townspeople, who look kind of generally old-timey as you might see in a fairy-tale kingdom, performing their daily tasks and singing "Rhythm Nation." (This also means that if you watch with the captions on, you will see that at one point, the mice are "squeaking 'Rhythm Nation.'") More than once, I found myself watching all this and thinking. So the fact that the songs here, while they include a couple of originals, are mostly things like "You Gotta Be" by Des'ree and the Jennifer Lopez hit "Let's Get Loud" isn't as weird as it might seem. No less a standard than Singin' In The Rain used mostly existing songs from other musicals the song "Singin' In The Rain" wasn't even written for it. The jukebox musical - or the library musical, I suppose you could call it, since "jukebox musical" now seems mostly reserved for single-artist shows like Mamma Mia! - is a long and honorable tradition. Instead, it's primarily a pop jukebox musical, using extant songs within scenes the same way you'd use original songs. ![]() This is a musical Cinderella, but it is not the musical Cinderella you know either from the Disney cartoon or from the Rodgers & Hammerstein show in which both Julie Andrews and Brandy have starred. ![]() Robert is an ambivalent prince whose sister Gwen (a woefully underdeveloped character given the weight the story tries to place on her) is better-qualified for leadership than he is, and while he is constantly pursued by veritable scads of women, he only has eyes for this young woman he saw in town. There's a good chance he's not familiar to you he just seems like the weighted average of all the guys who could play a prep school villain on a procedural or the detective's son who turns out to be the real murderer in a prestige drama. Your brain will try to tell you he has probably been making Disney Channel musicals since he was 14, but it's lying to you. Her prince is named Robert (.sure) and is played by Nicholas Galitzine, who has chiseled cheekbones, an earring, and often a tiny upturned thumb of hair just above his forehead. She dreams of her own dressmaking empire, while singing and longing and so forth. But rather than being stuck doing menial chores, she just hangs out down there and designs dresses, which makes her life probably one that a lot of crafty young women would envy, except for the fact that she has mice for friends (they are voiced by Corden, Romesh Ranganathan, and James Acaster). She does have a stepmother, and she does have stepsisters, and she does live in the basement. Loosely stated, the concept is that Cinderella is now what we might call a girlboss, played by pop diva Camila Cabello. The concept apparently originated with James Corden, our sweatiest late-night host (comedically, not literally) and one of the stars of Cats, a movie that has done for hallucinogens what Oreos did for milk. ![]() The new Cinderella that's out on Amazon this weekend is not a good idea. What happens when you throw a ton of great talent at a listless idea? Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Cabello in Cinderella.
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