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Was Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella the toast of Broadway?

Whats On Stage

The Broadway show opened last night It was not a bonner night for Belleville. Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Zippel and Emerald Fennell’s musical Bad Cinderella has opened to critics on Broadway, and it’s fair to say the results were patchy at best. First seen on this side of the Atlantic minus the “bad” adjective, the show was retooled and recast for its spell on the Great White Way, which kicked off earlier this year. On the more solid side, The Guardian and The Stage each gave the piece three stars, with The Guardian saying “Cinderella doesn’t have that much…

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Secret Cinema’s new owners want to be the Netflix of live events

The Guardian

TodayTix eyes global expansion for UK firm known for immersive film screenings, which took a Covid hammering. The new owners of Secret Cinema have got their Hollywood ending. Nearly three years after setting sights on the immersive filmgoing experience, they are reigniting its global expansion plans as part of a strategy to become the Netflix of live events. When they first came to London in early 2020 to discuss a possible takeover, the company was celebrating a hit adaptation of a show from that streaming platform – more than 100,000 fans…

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Immersive production of The Wolf of Wall Street to open in London in September

London Theatre Direct

An immersive production of The Wolf of Wall Street, the autobiography by American stockbroker Jordan Belfort later adapted for the cinema by Martin Scorsese, is set to open in central London later this year. From the production team behind the immersive production of The Great Gatsby, Alexander Wright has adapted Belfort’s memoir, and will direct the production which promises to bring to life the highs and lows of his millionaire lifestyle. Leonardo DiCaprio starred as Belfort in the film, which follows the young stockbroker through his career from his beginnings in the…

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