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Extra, extra! Lincoln Center Theater has named the full cast for the spring 2025 Broadway premiere of [*Floyd Collins*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41242-floyd-collins-on-broadway), including [Jeremy Jordan](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jeremy-jordan), Lizzy McAlpine, and more. Performances begin on March 27 ahead of an April 21 opening at the [Vivian Beaumont Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/vivian-beaumont-theater).

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Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine to star in ‘Floyd Collins’ on Broadway

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The two-time Tony Award nominee and the singer-songwriter will lead Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s musical, presented by Lincoln Center Theater in March 2025.

The year is drawing to a close, but plenty of New York shows are opening in December before 2024 is up. The last shows of the fall season make their debuts just in time for the holiday season, when tons of visitors flood New York to see the decorations and, of course, see not only new shows, but fan favorites from the last year.

And with the holidays in full swing, December is filled with Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that celebrate the magic of the winter season. <a...

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Discover our top picks for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows to see this month, including new shows premiering and last-chance shows closing this month.

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Read our picks for must-see Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre in December 2024, including the year's final fall Broadway productions and holiday-themed shows.

[*Redwood*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41270-redwood-on-broadway) on Broadway has named the complete cast joining [previously announced](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/idina-menzel-to-star-in-redwood-on-broadway) star [Idina Menzel](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/idina-menzel). Performances begin at the [Nederlander Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/nederlander-theatre) January 24 ahead of a February 13...

'Redwood,' starring Idina Menzel, completes Broadway cast

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The new musical, which premiered at California's La Jolla Playhouse earlier this year, will come to New York in January with multiple actors returning.

[*A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/39810-a-wonderful-world-the-louis-armstrong-musical-studio-54) traces the legendary life and career of the famous jazz vocalist and trumpeter through the eyes of his four wives across as many cities: New Orleans, Chicago, Hollywood, and New York.

Now at [Studio 54](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/studio-54), the jukebox musical stars...

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The show about the music legend's life features a score of jazz standards, blues and pop songs, and even showtunes Armstrong popularized throughout his career.

Hey, old sport! Ryan McCartan will join the cast of [*The Great Gatsby*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/38749-the-great-gatsby-on-broadway) on Broadway this winter, playing his first performance at the [Broadway Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/broadway-theatre) on January 21.

McCartan is known for his New York stage roles as J.D. in *Heathers*, Fiyero in *Wicked*, and Hans in *Frozen*. On screen, his roles include Brad in *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* and...

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The stage and screen actor will replace original cast member Jeremy Jordan in the title role of the musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel.

[*BOOP! The Musical*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/39187-boop-the-betty-boop-musical) on Broadway has named its principal cast, all of whom return to the show from its world premiere in Chicago last year. Broadway performances begin at the [Broadhurst Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/broadhurst-theatre) on March 11 ahead of an April 5 opening.

The *BOOP!* Broadway cast includes [Jasmine Amy...

'BOOP! The Musical' names main Broadway cast

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The original musical, based on the famous cartoon character Betty Boop, will bring back the principal actors from its world-premiere run in Chicago last year.

[*Tammy Faye*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37219-tammy-faye) has set its closing date on Broadway, playing its final performance on December 8. At the time of closing, it will have played 53 total performances at the [Palace Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/palace-theatre-ny).

*Tammy Faye* is a new musical about the tumultuous life and career of 20th-century televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. The show charts how she and her husband Jim Bakker founded the TV show...

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The musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker features a book by James Graham, music by Elton John, and lyrics by Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters.

This is your ticket to the ball! The new musical [*Bad Cinderella*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/26514-bad-cinderella-tickets) will offer rush and lottery tickets for its Broadway run, which begins February 17 at the [Imperial Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/imperial-theatre).

Rush tickets will be available in person and digitally. In-person rush tickets will be sold for $30 at the Imperial Theatre box office beginning at 10 a.m. each day. Each person can purchase up to two tickets for that day's performance, and tickets are subject to availability.

Digital rush tickets will be sold online for $30 beginning at 11 a.m. each day. Additional tickets may become available throughout the day even if they initially sell out shortly after the portal opens. As with the in-person rush, each person can purchase up to two tickets for that day's performance.

*Bad Cinderella* also offers a digital lottery for $30 tickets. The lottery will be open for entries from midnight to 3 p.m. the day before each performance. At 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., winners will be drawn for the next day's performance. Winners will have five hours from when they are notified to claim and pay for their tickets online. Each entrant can request up to two tickets.

## What is *Bad Cinderella* about?

*Bad Cinderella* features an original story by Oscar winner Emerald Fennell and songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel. In this version, Cinderella is the rebellious, goth outcast in a town that prizes beauty over everything. But when Cinderella decides to change her looks to win over a prince, she realizes outer beauty isn't all it's cracked up to be after all.

The cast includes Linedy Genao as Cinderella, Carolee Carmello as the Stepmother, Grace McLean as the Queen, Jordan Dobson as Sebastian, Sami Gayle as Adele, Morgan Higgins as Marie, Christina Acosta Robinson as the Godmother, and Savy Jackson as the Cinderella alternate.

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Iconic Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Oscar-winning writer Emerald Fennell give a beloved fairytale a fresh makeover in *Bad Cinderella* on Broadway. Get *Bad Cinderella* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*Bad Cinderella* premiered in London in 2021; at the time, the show was simply titled *Cinderella*. Its planned 2020 debut was postponed amid the pandemic, and the show ultimately ran in London's West End for a year. A [four-star review on London Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/andrew-lloyd-webbers-cinderella-the-musical-carrie-hope-fletcher) reads, "[The] grunge-punk princess is more Olivia Rodrigo than Disney... She's a new kind of princess, one that little girls and big girls alike could all use."

The review also reads, of Lloyd Webber's songs, "I defy you to leave the theatre without humming any of them. Highlights include 'Only You, Lonely You,' 'Bad Cinderella,' and 'Cinderella's Soliloquy,' but there's not a dud in the bunch and the orchestrations soar, particularly at the ball. David Zippel's clever lyrics offer a surprising rhyme at every turn."

## What is Andrew Lloyd Webber most known for?

Lloyd Webber is one of the most celebrated modern theatre composers. His [*The Phantom of the Opera*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/38-the-phantom-of-the-opera-tickets) is the longest-running Broadway show in history, and his other musicals, including *Cats*, *Jesus Christ Superstar*, and *Sunset Boulevard*, are all modern classics. For the *Bad Cinderella* musical, he teamed up with lyricist Zippel and bookwriter Emerald Fennell, a renowned writer herself who won an Oscar for writing the film *Promising Young Woman*. She's also written for *Killing Eve* and acted on *The Crown*.

## What is *Bad Cinderella* about?

The *Bad Cinderella* musical is set in Belleville, a kingdom that values beauty above all. That makes Cinderella — a brash, goth, unruly maid — the town outcast. Her one friend is Sebastian, the awkward younger brother of Prince Charming, and neither he nor Cinderella realize their feelings for the other are mutual. Cinderella sets out to become beautiful to win him over, with the help of a plastic-surgery "godmother" — but as the fairytale goes, the transformation only lasts until midnight. Afterward, she's left to discover that inner beauty is what really matters.

## What age is *Bad Cinderella* the musical suitable for?

*Bad Cinderella* is recommended for ages 10 and up. The musical contains some strong language.

Tickets to *Bad Cinderella* in New York are available now.

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Get tickets to Bad Cinderella on Broadway from the official New York Theatre Guide. See a fairytale get a makeover at Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest show.

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In the idyllic kingdom of Belleville, the only stubborn peasant standing in the way of perfection is Cinderella. Experience Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Emerald Fennell's revisionist take on a fairytale classic, which upends the classic story you thought you knew. Learn more about *Bad Cinderella* tickets on Broadway.

In the *Bad Cinderella* musical, our heroine is an outcast by choice, unlike in the original fairy tale. She changes her tune upon realizing she has feelings for her best friend, Prince Sebastian: believing he won’t love her as she is, Cinderella gets a temporary makeover from a local Godmother (read: plastic surgeon). But what will happen when the beauty fades?

*Bad Cinderella* premiered in London's West End in 2021, running there for just over a year. The show received multiple nods at London’s Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards, and Webber and lyricist David Zippel’s score got a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album.

That nod was Webber’s 15th Grammy nomination to date; he’s won the award four times (including a Grammy Legend special award), and also has one Oscar, one Emmy, and seven Tonys, putting him in the select group to achieve EGOT status. His most famous works include *Cats*, *The Phantom of the Opera*, *Sunset Boulevard*, and *Jesus Christ Superstar*, among others.

Behind the original story for *Bad Cinderella* is Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-winning writer of the 2020 film *Promising Young Woman*. A multi-hyphenate, she also directed that film, was the showrunner for season 2 of *Killing Eve*, and has acted on shows including *The Crown*. Critically acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Alexis Scheer (*Our Dear Dead Drug Lord*, *Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin*) provides additional material for the script.

## What to Watch For

- Webber's musical was simply titled *Cinderella* when it premiered in London. Like Cinderella herself, the title got a makeover!
- The *Cinderella* story is popular with musical theatre writers. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote a *Cinderella* musical in 1957, and Cinderella is a main character in Sondheim's fairytale mashup musical *Into the Woods*.
- A show about beauty needs eye-catching costumes. An ArtsDesk review of the London production describes the aesthetic as "Elsa Schiaparelli meets Jean Paul Gaultier in pre-revolutionary France," with the women's costumes displaying a "torrent of taffeta" and the men's, "muscle-enhancing minimalism."
- The London cast of *Bad Cinderella* were inspired by performing icons. Rebecca Trehearn channeled Miranda Richardson and Jane Krakowski to perform the role of the Queen, and Caleb Roberts thought of attention-grabbing public figures, like Michael Jackson and even Barack Obama, while playing Prince Charming.
- In London, some seating sections in the Gillian Lynne Theatre (where *Bad Cinderella* performed) actually moved around during the production.

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Before the curtain rises on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s [*Bad Cinderella*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/26514-bad-cinderella-tickets), a recognizable tune floats through the theatre: “In My Own Little Corner,” Cinderella’s wishful thinking classic from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical. Webber uses the song as a leitmotif throughout his adaptation, setting the notes to his protagonist’s confession that she is “bad” and “wild and free.” This bold choice invites instant comparisons to Cinderellas past and reveals the depths that Laurence Connor’s production at the [Imperial Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/imperial-theatre) lacks. 

Set in the fictional French town of Belleville, *Bad Cinderella* follows a rule-breaking heroine (Linedy Genao) who rejects the city’s obsession with physical beauty. She spray-paints “Beauty Sucks” on a statue of Prince Charming (Cameron Loyal), who went missing a year ago in his quest to slay a dragon. This is the most rebellious action she takes throughout the show, preferring instead to stare off into the forest and ponder her helplessness. Cinderella is angry that life took away her parents and left her with a cruel Stepmother (Carolee Carmello, a highlight of the production) and dimwitted stepsisters Adele (Sami Gayle) and Marie (Morgan Higgins). However, she never tries to change her situation, fight for the little guy, or better her society.

The most fruitful premise in *Bad Cinderella* is that Cinderella and her prince don’t fall in love at first sight at the ball. Instead, she and Prince Sebastian (Jordan Dobson, who we are supposed to believe is ugly) are childhood friends, bonded by a feeling of never fitting in. This choice promises a deeper love story the show does not deliver, as the characters spend little time together and are denied a triumphant finale.

Prince Sebastian feels awkward around the imposing Hunks of the castle’s inner circle and detests the notion that he must marry for political gain. His older brother feels pressured to conform to the crown’s expectations and chooses to defy them for love. The princes are granted an interiority that is never extended to Cinderella, relegating her to second billing in her own musical.

*Bad Cinderella* premiered in the U.K. in 2021 with a libretto by Emerald Fennell; the Broadway production features additional book material by Alexis Scheer. The book overrelies on jokes about women's relationships to their bodies. “I want to be hot,” Cinderella, who has until now just wanted to get by unscathed, sings to the Godmother (Christina Acosta Robinson, who has nothing to do). When Marie says she wants to look “lean and mean,” her mother tells her she’s “halfway there, just overweight.”

The show’s mantra of “beauty is our duty” is never interrogated; there is no counter, just a bland pronouncement that Sebastian likes Cinderella the way she is. This result is puzzling coming from Fennell, who won an Oscar for a polarizing feminist revenge fantasy film, and Scheer, who made her name with a play about the inner lives of teenage girls.

This may be an unfair characterization of the creative process, however. It’s possible that Fennell and Scheer were never in a room together, let alone one with Lloyd Webber and lyricist David Zippel, which may explain the lack of cohesion.

Musically, the show tries to blend musical theatre and rock opera and instead trades off genres each song. The best song in the show is “I Know You,” a duet between the dueling Stepmother and Queen (Grace McLean, who deserves her flowers). The progression of their froufrou cupcake dresses from costume and scenic designer Gabriela Tylesova is also a treat.

But despite McLean’s humorous victories, *Bad Cinderella* does not live up to its potential to deliver an empowering thesis. It hopes a familiar story and a veteran Broadway composer will be enough, but at what cost, if its spectacle and entertainment are hampered by misogyny?

Beauty, we may suppose by the end of Act 2, is only skin-deep. So, too, is *Bad Cinderella*.

[*Bad Cinderella* is at the Imperial Theatre. Get *Bad Cinderella* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/26514-bad-cinderella-tickets)

*Photo credit: Linedy Genao in Bad Cinderella. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)*

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The Imperial Theatre is an iconic Broadway theatre located in the heart of New York's theater district. Established in 1923 and built by the Shubert Organization, it boasts of a spectacular architectural design conceived by Herbert J. Krapp. The interior charm is harmonized by comfortable seating for around 1,417 spectators. Throughout its illustrious history, the theatre has hosted countless notable performances, including 'Les Misérables', 'Annie Get Your Gun', and the debut of 'Billy Elliot'.

### Getting to the Imperial Theatre ###

The theatre is conveniently sited at 249 West 45th Street, making it easy to reach by taxi, bus or subway. The nearest subway stations are 42 St - Port Authority Bus Terminal on lines A, C and E and Times Sq - 42 St on lines N, Q, R, W, S, 1, 2, 3, and 7. If you prefer a bus ride, M42 and M50 are the most proximate bus stops. There are multiple paid parking garages in the theater’s vicinity for those who decide to drive.


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Designed by Herbert J. Krapp, the Imperial Theatre was built for the Shubert Organization and officially opened on December 25, 1923 with the musical *Mary Jane McKane*.

It was the Shuberts' 50th New York venue and was constructed as a replacement for their 20-year-old [Lyric Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/lyric-theatre) (which stood partly on the site of the current Lyric Theatre). The Imperial Theatre also held the first Ms. Globe Pageant in 1951.

## How to get to the Imperial Theatre on Broadway

The Imperial Theatre, located on the corner of 45th Street and Eighth Avenue, is closest to the 42nd Street - Port Authority Bus Terminal subway stop on the A, C, and E lines. The closest bus stops are 8th Ave/W 46th St. on the M20 and M104 lines and 8th Ave/W 43rd St. on the M20, M104, and M34A-SBS line.

## Restaurants near the Imperial Theatre

The Imperial Theatre in NYC is one block southwest of Restaurant Row, located on 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Popular restaurants on this stretch include Joe Allen (American), Becco (Italian), Le Rivage (French), Dim Sum Palace (Chinese), and a variety of others.

The theatre is also located one block east of Marseille (French), Nizza (Italian), and Five Napkin Burger (American), three popular restaurants for the theatregoing crowd all located between 44th and 45th Streets on Ninth Avenue.

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Imperial Theatre, designed by Herbert J. Krapp, opened on December 25, 1923 with the musical Mary Jane McKane. Nearby are popular restaurants.

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The Imperial Theatre in New York is a historic venue which hosts significant performances. It's easily accessible by taxi, subway, or bus.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Emerald Fennell's twist on the classic fairytale, coming to New York from London, begins performances February 17 at the Imperial Theatre.

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